I spent a few days up at Forked Meadow in mid October. The leaves are starting to change color and we got our first good dusting of snow.
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Here comes a dusting of snow! This might be the first snow of the year. I’m not sure if my parents had any earlier when I wasn’t here.
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Everything is damp and wonderful and it feels like magical fall!
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Doing some work to get a pile ready to burn later this fall. This is in preparation for the underburn that we’ll be doing next year. We did manage to jump a track on the bobcat and had to reinstall it in the forest. That track is HEAVY.
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Down at Camp El-O-Win checking out the fall colors.
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