The gate at Blue Ridge is still closed and locked for the ski season, and enough snow still remains that it'll be awhile longer before they open the road. A govt truck/worker bee was ensuring noone bypassed the locked gate (although I did see some mtn bikes nearby). So we will have to skip Wright Mtn summit until after we've done some of the harder ones.
As we approached Vincent Gap, we found ourselves in a true icefog, which I have never seen outside of Alaska. The ice in the wind stung our faces and left rime on all the exposed flora. It was beautiful, but doesn't bode well for training in time, esp. given the two-month decrease we now face.
Icefog reduces road visibility significantly.
Rime on the pines' leading edges.
Even the chaparral got it.
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In most cases you can click on "Newer Post" and it will take you to the next post in the order it was written. But, as an English Major with a Master's degree, she was always going back and adding photos and captions over the years. In the latter stages of her cancer she "lost" a few things she had written and also made some errors in her linking to the next thing she posted. If you are unsure of the order she wrote her posts just use the index at the top right of the screen. Click on the year and month and whatever posts she made that month will be listed. Click on each one in the order they appear (top to bottom) and you can read them in the order they were posted.
You will find several things in the posts you might not understand. My daughter did this so she would not be using names and allow her to remain anonymous. Here are a few off the top of my head.
DH - Dear husband
DD - Dear daughter
DS - Dear son
BB - Big Blue which was her trusty old van.
If you want to see a larger version of any photo just click on the photo. After viewing it click on the "X' at the upper right of the photo and you will return to the point where you left the blog.
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