Incoming!

A friend in upstate NY sent along a word of warning.
Weather coming.
For them it is snow.
For us it will be rain, tomorrow.
A LOT of rain.

How much?

The National Weather Service says:

"LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL FROM SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY INTO MONDAY EVENING WILL LIKELY PRODUCE AREAS OF URBAN AND POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING. SOME RIVERS AND STREAMS WILL COME CLOSE TO BANKFULL FROM THE RAINS."

That could prove interesting!

It has been a busy weekend in the Cascades.

On Saturday two crews from Clark University came in to clear ice storm debris off of the trails.

The first crew was a group of hardy folk some Clark some neighbors bearing chainsaws.
I followed their trail of sawdust through the woods.
Incredible amounts of work!

The second crew was a group of students with had tools who followed a chainsaw bearing GWLT president and moved debris, particularly from the brook by the Sanctuary/Amphitheater.

I walked the River Trail from the playing field to the Meadow Ridge, and it is still buried, though the Meadow Ridge, the Cascades Trails are both in fabulous shape! So another project is in the offing....

On Sunday we saw tons of hikers at the Lodge, and for that mater we saw tons of hikers as well, though the squirrelly nearly spitting rain all day meant that it was a bit restrained.

Presently it is:
10:10 p.m. and
42.3 degrees F and falling,
66% humidity and rising,
29.68" of mercury and rising,
The brook and Cascades are flowing,
and the USFS Fire Danger Class is LOW.