2020-21 NH Winter/SH Summer Photo Thread (spoilers please!)

Grimwade Campsite, much greener than usual. Also fucking awesome water temperature and there was a ropeswing which was great fun.







January 11th:

Morning after



Electric blue bird



Short hike near Balingup, a very different feel to most of SW WA. ALmost feels european to me













January 12th:

This morning, misty

This pathway to the apartment complex housing hundreds of apartments had snow walls at shoulder height.


Here's a video I took from my fwb's apartment when I woke up, where you can see a guy trying to clear the pathway. I saw a girl literally crawling over a 1.5m wall of snow before the guy came with the snow blower.


An insane amount of massive snow piles all over the place.


I hardly recognize the city I've known for all my life.


Looks so alien.


I've seen snow covers this thick before. March 2019 had like 80cm of snow for a brief moment, and there was a meter of snow in Tavelsjö in 2017. But I've never seen this much snow in January in Umeå, and I've never seen so much snow come at once. It looks very different to have half a meter of snow come in one day to having half a meter of snow that's accumulated over weeks.


Very difficult to estimate the actual snow depth however, since it's hard to know what's a wall of snow caused by plowing, and what's caused by the fierce winds. I'd have to venture out onto a football field or something like that, and I really don't feel like it. I'd estimate somewhere around 50-70cm. Our station hasn't reported any figures since Jan 4th. All the other stations nearby, at similar distances from the sea, have 90cm of snow though, like Vännäs 20 miles inland at 80m ASL.


Snow covered cars. Could be worse though.


My friend sent a snap of a car on his parking lot that was completely covered by snow.


This path was plowed last afternoon, after about 20-30cm had already fallen. Walking home from the girl's place was so tedious even though she lives only 1.5km away, because most pathways are narrow cuts through the snow, made only by people's footsteps, meaning your feet slide around on the moderately packed snow constantly, and every time you meet a person, one of you have to step aside into the knee deep snow.


The hospital park didn't look like it had that much snow though, judging by the tables. Don't think the tables are much taller than 60-70cm. This image will be a good reference later on when the snow melts away.


Ducks are swimming around in a narrow pool of slush.

Happy looking snowman to the right. 









Final result.





Err... No, this is the final result.