Weather
Any kind of atmosphere can happen on the trail.
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West Peak / Metacomet Trail - High Cirrus and Low Cumulus The sky above West Peak on this day has a number of small cumulus clouds that represent columns of moist air rising from near the ground into colder regions of the atmosphere. The cirrus clouds feathered above are ice crystals in the high cold regions where the air is thin, and only airplanes fly. The ice crystals and water droplets act as prisms, and with sunglasses or filters, show a lovely pastel rainbow in the translucent areas of cloud. See also… 5/28/2005 |
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Airline and Israel Ridge Trail - Behind Mount Sam Adams Perhaps the best view of the hike, this exemplifies the adventure of that day. As we descend this part of the trail, the trail signs are sketchy and possibly misleading. We have to cross a snowfield, postholing from time to time. The clouds boil up a thousand feet into the sky to our left. We're starting to worry about being late. What was supposed to be a ten hour hike is already far into the seventh hour and Sue is expecting us in less than four more hours. So we have four hours to make a descent across the unknown amount of steep snow that our ascent has made us suspect must be choking the upper trails of the Israel Ridge, descend a steep and rugged trail across stone, mud and roots, and then follow the river to the trailhead. The trail we are about to follow heads fairly directly toward the cloud wall. You can see a bit of it traced by snow just past the snowfield, curving right, where it ultimately leads to the Israel Ridge Trail. See also… 5/20/2005 |
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Airline and Israel Ridge Trail - Rain in the Valley From high on the Adams summit cone, we can see the edge of the clouds condensing into a virga - misty rain that evaporates before reaching the ground. See also… 5/20/2005 |
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This view across Harts Pond shows snow where there will soon be water and plants. See also… 3/13/2005 |
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Lookout Ledge - Clouds on the Osgood Osgood Ridge splits the clouds in an infinitely changeable cloudscape. See also… 8/2/2003 |
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