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Montana Snow Pack and Precipitation

Montana Snow Pack, 3-15-2010

by Wayne Mumford March 16, 2010

We are advancing into spring pretty quickly now. Several smaller lakes in the valleys are about to lose their ice. The river sloughs are open and the only remaining snow below 35oo ft. is in the shade or on the north slopes and little blades of hardier grasses are starting move.
Absent is the precipitation. Nights [...]

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Cowering from the Sun

by Wayne Mumford February 25, 2010

We have had a run of “good” weather, we got to see the sun for a couple days without arctic temperatures and we seem to be moving into the early spring mode of a weather change every five minutes or so and temperatures creeping into the mid 40’s and even low 50’s. It has been [...]

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The sky is not falling

by Wayne Mumford February 12, 2010

And if it did, we’d never see it coming. In photography there is what is known as the 18% gray card. It’s a card you can carry around with you to hold up in the light you are shooting in and take an exposure reading off of with your on board camera meter. No need [...]

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Montana snow pack and precipitation, February 1, 2010

by Wayne Mumford January 31, 2010
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Is it February? January in western Montana was a wash in terms of precipitation, if anything we lost snow pack. I think I actually saw 50°f in town last week when the sun managed to find a hole to shine through. Other than the almost permanent cloud cover, it has been a pretty easy winter- [...]

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UFO or is the sun shining in northwest Montana

by Wayne Mumford January 13, 2010
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I could probably count the days of total sunshine we have had since Thanksgiving on one hand. So when the sun has actually shown up the last few weeks, it’s a big deal. Kinda like experiencing an eclipse or encountering a UFO; living things start acting sort of funny. Dogs start frolicking around and barking,  [...]

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El Legarto

by Wayne Mumford January 8, 2010

Or Alligator, from the name the Spanish explorers gave to the American Alligator; like this one that was killed by a hunter recently in Florida.
Somehow I feel more comfortable with a few grizzly bears running around the woods than I would going fishing where something this size was hanging out. And I damn sure wouldn’t [...]

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The Montana weather thing

by Wayne Mumford January 7, 2010
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Not even a week ago I was sniveling about the balmy conditions. Mud, slush and slop. Well, it took about 24 hours starting Monday to go from 45°F to 0° by Tuesday am and to continue its decent to an arctic -17° last night. Right before going over the temperture cliff we got a pretty [...]

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Carved Fish, wood carved that is!

by Wayne Mumford January 6, 2010

Is Matt Zudweg an exceptionally talented traditional sign painter with a fishing problem or another obsessed  fisherman working (in this case, painting and carving signs) to support his fishing habit? I am inclined to say that from the quality of his work it’s all the above.

Matt hails from Howard City, Michigan where he spreads his [...]

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