Still Winter at Survival Topics
More Articles Related to BlogAs you can see by the Survival Topics home page, we are still in winter mode. Late March in the White Mountains of New Hampshire can still have temperatures well below zero degrees F and the snow cover lingers into April and even May. The weather associated with the Spring season is still a few hundred miles south in spite of what season the calendar claims.
Survival Topics being a hands-on survival website with real life survival skills, posts to the website will of necessity continue to be slanted more toward cold weather survival until the snow melts off.
I live in an excellent area to teach winter survival skills. Besides the long cold northern winters, the heights of the local mountains are well above treeline where arctic tundra and permafrost make for year round winter conditions. On the slopes of these mountains wind speeds are routinely over 100mph. The world record wind speed of 231 mph was recorded on top of Mount Washington, right next to my home. This area is known to have “The Worst Weather in the World”.
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Spring Snowstorm at the Woodpile Winters are long at the Survival Topics compound. The calendar may say it's spring, but today (March 28th) a snowstorm is dumping several inches of fresh snow Here I am breaking up firewood into kinding using an axe This axe has been with me through thick and thin for over twenty years, a true friend that has never let me down. From blazing hundreds of miles of survey line in the Great North Woods to cutting firewood at home, this trusted axe and I have lived through many an adventure and will no doubt encounter many more. |
There are places in the White Mountains where the ice never completely melts, so that even on 100 degree summer days you can hike a few miles and cool off on snow as though it were still calendar Winter.
This morning, March 28th it is snowing with several fresh inches over the four feet remaining on the ground. Several days ago it was -2F. So I ask Survival Topics readers in the Northern Hemisphere to be patient with us as we await the Spring you may already have.
I promise you fresh articles specific survival in Spring, once spring gets here!
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