We drove up to our friends home in Angel Fire {3,900 square feet on 3 acres at 9,000'} on Monday after an overnight in Albuquerque. They have about a foot of snow on the ground and it is now snowing heavily, looks like a foot or more will fall today and tomorrow with temps headed to single digits.
We left the Class C back in Tucson and drove my 1995 LTD. I have a set of wire cable chains and 150# of sandbags in the trunk. Getting out tomorrow may or may not happen but as you can see we are not exactly roughing it.
We drove up to Red River this morning for our usual awesome Brisket breakfast burrito at Shotgun Willies and followed that with a round of brewskis at the new Red River Brewery.
I'll take some more pics later this afternoon when it has had a chance to really accumulate. We came seeking a white Christmas and we got our wish. Had to suffer through Beef Wellington last night and I am doing a Rack of Lamb for dinner today. The fire is roaring and there might even be an adult libation or two in our future. Life is Good!
:B
"D.C. - I wonder how it would have been parked out in the driveway dry-staying there in your rig while visiting your friends ... as opposed to hookup-staying inside that marvelous looking mountain home?"
I briefly considered taking the rig up to Angel Fire. With the 35K BTU furnace and 30 amps right at our site, we might have been warm enough but would have burned a lot of propane. I doubt the DC tank heaters could deal with the extreme low temps though, it was 14 degrees below zero at 0900 in the morning we left and had several nights in the single digit range.
As you can see from this pic our RV site has been repurposed to snow storage as the far end is where the plow guy has to dump it. With 200'+ of driveway that is a lot of snow. Traction wise I think the Class C, with all of the weight found on the duallies would have been fine especially with the cable chains I used on the Crown Vic.
That is our site just to the left and beyond Sherry's chevy, the 30 amp pedestal is on the far side of the site between the two trees:
In the end, we toughed it out in our huge, gorgeous guest suite and are already making plans to return no later than May and that trip will be with the coach, bike and trailer.
:B
I briefly considered taking the rig up to Angel Fire. With the 35K BTU furnace and 30 amps right at our site, we might have been warm enough but would have burned a lot of propane. I doubt the DC tank heaters could deal with the extreme low temps though, it was 14 degrees below zero at 0900 in the morning we left and had several nights in the single digit range.
As you can see from this pic our RV site has been repurposed to snow storage as the far end is where the plow guy has to dump it. With 200'+ of driveway that is a lot of snow. Traction wise I think the Class C, with all of the weight found on the duallies would have been fine especially with the cable chains I used on the Crown Vic.
That is our site just to the left and beyond Sherry's chevy, the 30 amp pedestal is on the far side of the site between the two trees:
In the end, we toughed it out in our huge, gorgeous guest suite and are already making plans to return no later than May and that trip will be with the coach, bike and trailer.
:B
Desert Captain wrote:
We drove up to our friends home in Angel Fire {3,900 square feet on 3 acres at 9,000'} on Monday after an overnight in Albuquerque. They have about a foot of snow on the ground and it is now snowing heavily, looks like a foot or more will fall today and tomorrow with temps headed to single digits.
We left the Class C back in Tucson and drove my 1995 LTD. I have a set of wire cable chains and 150# of sandbags in the trunk. Getting out tomorrow may or may not happen but as you can see we are not exactly roughing it.
We drove up to Red River this morning for our usual awesome Brisket breakfast burrito at Shotgun Willies and followed that with a round of brewskis at the new Red River Brewery.
I'll take some more pics later this afternoon when it has had a chance to really accumulate. We came seeking a white Christmas and we got our wish. Had to suffer through Beef Wellington last night and I am doing a Rack of Lamb for dinner today. The fire is roaring and there might even be an adult libation or two in our future. Life is Good!
:B
D.C. - I wonder how it would have been parked out in the driveway dry-staying there in your rig while visiting your friends ... as opposed to hookup-staying inside that marvelous looking mountain home? ๐
Came home on Sunday after a great week with more snow and serious cold than we had ever seen. Got up this morning {Happy New Year} and looks like the snow fairly followed us home to Tucson. Glad I winterized the coach a couple of weeks ago as we have been seeing temps down around 26 degrees for most of the night {"not just an hour predawn}:
It is melting fast but between the inch of snow and half an inch of rain we got last night here is what Mt Lemon looks like this morning from our front yard:
The top 3,000' is lost in the clouds but should look spectacular when they clear.
:C
It is melting fast but between the inch of snow and half an inch of rain we got last night here is what Mt Lemon looks like this morning from our front yard:
The top 3,000' is lost in the clouds but should look spectacular when they clear.
:C
