I found the perfect hiking and camping spot today...............

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STM

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..........for when my wife comes here for Christmas. Assuming of course it is not impassible! It will be our first white Christmas together since 1984. The place is called the Black River and is about 25 miles away up in the higher mountains. It is really not a river now, little more than a crick but I imagine it becomes a torrential river when the snow starts to melt in the spring. Here is around 9000 feet MSL.

This place is completely SPOILING me for FL, I may NEVER want to go home! Were I to get on with this hospital full time I could probably make about $75,000 a year with O/T.

I actually took this image with my 16mm f/2.8 Fisheye Nikkor!

 
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Whiskeyman

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You haven't had to shovel that snow yet, so my money is on you to at least wish you were back in Florida when the temperatures go waaay south for a long time this winter. :cool:

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cwgrizz

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The nice thing about most of AZ is that you don't have to shovel sunshine. Also, if it does snow, it usually doesn't stick around long.............well up around Flagstaff it can get a little bit of a pain sometimes, but even there not bad. Ha! I love seeing the snow on the mountain, going to play in it and then going to lower ground to thaw out.
 
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mikew_RIP

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Sounds great and looks even better



Sorry its an old one

My husband and I purchased an old home in Northern New York State from two elderly sisters. Winter was fast approaching and the years first snow came early and I was concerned about the house's lack of insulation. "If they could live here all those years, so can we!" my husband confidently declared. One November night the temperature plunged to below zero, and we woke up to find interior walls covered with frost. My husband called the sisters to ask how they had kept the house warm. After a rather brief conversation, he hung up. "For the past 30 years," he muttered, "they've gone to Florida for the winter."
 
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STM

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Whiskeyman said:
You haven't had to shovel that snow yet, so my money is on you to at least wish you were back in Florida when the temperatures go waaay south for a long time this winter. :cool:

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I have not had to shovel it for a while but I did grow up in NC and spent my Active Duty time in WA state so I am certainly not a stranger to it. And of course back then there were no such things as snow blowers or they were so expensive as to not be worth it! :)
 
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