Good morning! Happy Saturday. Last full day in West Virginia. 🌲🍂🍃But it’s been a nice road trip, and Sunday night I’ll camp in Pennsylvania before heading home on Columbus Day. Next Saturday is Northern Zone Regular Season 🦌. Clouds with a few breaks of blue sky and 56 degrees at the Monongahela National Forest. ⛅ Seems like a There is a west breeze at 11 mph. 🍃 with gusts up to 22 mph 💨💨💨. The dew point is 50 degrees. Not real cold, no need for the heater but I can hear the wind gust around. The skies will clear around 4 pm.

Made up eggs 🍳 with all the fixings this morning. Should be a good breakfast that will keep me going all day. I am going to go for a hike up in Cannan Heights on one of the trails up here in a bit then will drive down to Blackwater Falls State Park later. ⛲ Today is my last full day in West Virginia but I’m far enough north that if I get a reasonably early start tomorrow, I can poke around the Canaan Wildlife Refuge 🐦 for a while.

Today will have showers likely, mainly before 11am. Mostly cloudy, with a temperature falling to around 48 by 4pm. ⛅ West wind 11 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. 🍃 Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. Fortunately, my campsite is well protected from the wind by the mountain laurel. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 61 degrees. The record high of 85 was set in 1954. There was a dusting of snow in 1904.❄

The sun will set at 6:44 pm with dusk around 7:11 pm, which is one minute and 29 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 45 degrees. There will be a west breeze at 10 mph. Today will have 11 hours and 19 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 29 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have patchy frost after 11pm. Otherwise, mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 36 degrees at 1am. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 27th. West wind 3 to 8 mph. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 41 degrees. The record low of 24 occurred back in 1981.

Jetpack said my blog was down for a few hours yesterday. 👇 Seems to be working fine today now. Maybe click refresh? I guess it doesn’t matter that much in the grand scheme of things.

Despite washing up using rinse free cleaner along with wet wipes and a wash cloth, sure starting to feel a bit dirty going a week without a shower 🚿. I did shave well and trim my goatee 🐐. Put on lots of deodorant and I’ll shower again come Columbus Day. 🛁 I guess I really am a dirty hick. Certainly my blaze orange hoodie is more brown than orange at this point from the mud. 👃

I figure I smell probably no worse than that guy I saw spreading cow 🐮 manure 💩 in Maryland with an open cab tractor 🚜. I guess you farm with the equipment that you have. Old timers did it that way for many years.

As previously noted, next Saturday is Northern Zone Regular Season 🦌 when the sun will be setting at 6:34 pm with dusk at 7:01 pm. On that day in 2018, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 60 and 29 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 59 degrees. We hit a record high of 79 back in 1963.