Good morning! Happy Tuesday. Four weeks to Election Day 2019 🗳️. The fog has burned off and it’s now sunny ☀ and 52 degrees at the Allegheny National Forest. There is a east-northeast breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. Surprisingly damp this morning in the woods, it was a really foggy morning at first. 🌁 I slept in, looking forward to seeing the sun.

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 62 degrees at 4pm. Big smile. One degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around October 10th. Northeast wind 5 to 7 mph. A year ago, we had light drizzle in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 63 degrees. The record high of 80 was set in 2017.

Today I am going to park at Kinzua Beach, walk down to the Reservoir, 🚶 and maybe cross the Cornplanter Bridge 🌉 on foot and then hike up the trail to Rimrock. The parking lot 🅿 should have a lot of sun for charging the accessories battery. 🔋I don’t feel really ambitious today as I’m on vacation and I see no reason to rush anywhere. 😀 Time goes by so quickly as it is, why rush it? ⏳

The sun will set at 6:46 pm with dusk around 7:14 pm, which is one minute and 40 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 55 degrees. There will be a east-northeast breeze at 7 mph. Today will have 11 hours and 26 minutes of daytime, an decrease of 2 minutes and 46 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 40 degrees at 6am. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 13th. East wind around 6 mph. In 2018, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It became humid as the night progressed. It got down to 62 degrees. The record low of 27 occurred back in 2001.

Ever since buying the axe 🌲I’ve gotten quite efficient at processing firewood, which is good especially on these long nights – although I’ve often kept the fires small as it’s been fairly mild and why waste wood you don’t have to waste?

Everything is kind of wet and soaked at camp today 💦so I’m going to wait until tomorrow to break camp but I think this evening I will probably take down the tent and tarp once things dry out. I’m leaning towards camping in the southern part of the National Forest for the second half of the week and doing the elk route and Hyner View on Sunday. Although I wish there was more color but I like the quiet of the National Forest 🌲and not having to rush to take down and set back camp every day.

That an I kind of like the Pennsylvania countryside, 🐮 especially seeing the farms and homesteads with burning trash and debris out back because I’m a pyro. 🔥 I’ll be totally open on that. Plus I like seeing the farm operations 🚜 and the cabins in the woods 🌲and scenic vistas. 📷

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until Election Day 2019 🗳️ when the sun will be setting at 5:06 pm with dusk at 5:35 pm (Standard Time). I plan to early vote before then ❎ but I might also volunteer on some local campaigns. On that day in 2018, we had rain showers, partly sunny and temperatures between 48 and 31 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 52 degrees. We hit a record high of 75 back in 1994.