Your mountaineering post are something I always look forward to. I'd like to hear about your Lhotse climb one day. That is an impressive feat.

49 currently with a low of 47, only has been a 3 degree range so far today. 61/48 day yesterday and our 2 day storm total is .17" of rain.

I suppose I should make a similar post too. My name's Todd, I grew up in the amazing town of whitefish montana with 3 younger siblings, I had a constant battle with leukemia for 6 years growing up without much opportunity to just be a kid, which during those boring and awful years I always dreamed of having a life full of great adventures. Graduated highschool in 1983 and then spent the next 9 years living seasonally at different national parks and Ski towns in the USA and Canada taking advantage of the cheap dormitory housing with those Jobs, doing mainly construction and maintenance related work and a few of those years were spent at college. Met my now wife at OSU in 1990 and in 1993 we bought a house outside of Kalispell Montana, in 1995 my first son was born, in 1997 we moved to La Pine Oregon living in a small house for a couple of years while we were getting our house built on the property, which I saved a lot of money by doing most of it myself except the plumbing, elec and foundation, in 1998 my daughter was born and in 2003 my 2nd son was born. During our time in La Pine I started a successful construction business, and in 2015 we bought a lot in Sunriver which I again built most of the house which we then moved into in the fall of 2016. By 2019 I was getting old and tired of construction and passed the torch off to my son to own it after I partially retired, and would work part time as Ski patrol at mt bachelor over the next few winters, and then spent the next couple of winter seasons working as a cook at bachelor, until I retired this spring! I now have 3 grandkids and 1 due in August. Me and my wife are considering moving back to the flathead Valley in Montana, she slightly prefers central oregon and I slightly prefer Montana, main reason it is considered is because my oldest son is moving there and it would be nice to live close to him and his kids. What I'm sure has been pretty obvious with my posts is I am a passionate mountaineer, hiker and climber, I have spent an ungodly amount of my time and money on gear and traveling to destinations for my passion, some of my most notable summits have been Denali and Wrangell-St Elias in Alaska, Chimborazo and Aconcagua in South America, Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn(both in winter) and the Eiger north face in the Alps, have successfully climbed a 5.14a route on the 3000' el cap wall which for the non climbers here anything above a 5.14 grade is an extremely hard climb, and most notably I have done 27940' Lhotse in the Himalayas in May 2021 without a guide or sherpa. I've always been obsessed with weather and have fallen more and more in love with it in the last decade, made my account in nov 2023 but I have lurked this forum since Jan 2020. I REALLY love snow and warm sunshine which is why sunriver is a great town for me, my favorite 2 weather events is the Feb 24th-26th nearly 3' snowstorm and Jan 2024 when we got about 5 feet of extremely fluffy snow in a week, best 2 winters here have been 2016-2017 and 2008-2009, we got more snow in the 16-17 winter but December 2008 is really hard to beat especially with the 20" storm around Christmas with most of my family over for the holiday.

Just checked We’ve received just shy of 10” rain since May 1 in DFW. Nice change from the persistent drought.

Quite a blessing indeed!