Weather 1/25: Cold, Cold, Cold, Wind, Wind, Wind, Wind

Gamma1214 said:

Good grief, why? Just like people, deer don't tend to look up so 10-12 feet is the norm around here. Sure they didn't say "16"?

I won't (usually) pass up a mature buck but I shoot mostly does. They're better eating and you thin the herd that way (deer eat the same food as cows so the farms around here love doe hunters).

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I'm pretty sure that 60 feet was an exaggeration. I did spend some time looking for it and found one that was pretty high and way out on a branch. It definitely looked scary, especially for old man. It was about a ten minute walk from the fire pit. It was probably high enough that it gave him a good view of the beaver meadow. Most of the years he hunted were before antler restrictions, so not as great of a feat as it would be today. Years back there weren't as many deer as there are today and doe permits were limited. In some circles it was frowned upon to shoot does.

clemency said:

Very nice. All the old and abandoned firepits I find are circles, and there are many of them on the island I usually paddle to. I should start rebuilding at least some of them to be more useful, and keep this idea in mind when I come across others that are in out of the way places.

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It looked like the current pit may have been built over a circular one. If it wasn't made by local deer hunters it may be much older than I think. It sits about 50' from a trail. The trail is an old railroad bed built about a hundred years ago to haul ice to a local brewery so they could ship their beer to New York City.

lowangle al said:

Tell me about it. I had to do some errands yesterday. I was wearing a light weight long sleeve wool T shirt with a medium weight wool sweater and a wool Pendelton shirt over that. It was all tucked into a pair of Eddie Bauer lined pants with insulated Red Wing Elk Hunter boots. As I was doing my shopping at the supermarket I felt sick and thought I might go down. I finished up and got out of there into that Arctic blast. It felt fantastic, I think I was getting heat stroke. If I had my scarf on I might have died. I drove home with the window open.

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I should have mentioned that the reason I was so bundled up was to stay warm inside, not necessarily outside. My cottage is poorly insulated and very drafty when it's windy, especially near the big windows where my rocking chair is. I regularly wear a hat and scarf for comfort inside.

It was cold here last week, we get a few days break before it freezes next week. I took the chance to get out.

I was surprised the pond was froze over. The river was ice free. This is where the Eno River meets a small pond for the water plant.

It looks like somebody tried to paddle something through the ice.

The water was kind of odd, very silty but not as muddy as normal after a rain. Maybe it's this ice and freezing weather we've had.