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wet Christmas

latitude32 - 12-26-2025 at 01:42 PM

rained like heck in Santa Barbara how much did Baja get?

BoenBaja - 12-27-2025 at 07:47 AM

We did get a little bit here in Bahía Asunción over the last couple of nights, and there’s a possibly of some more on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of this coming week. Much needed and welcomed.

Lee - 12-27-2025 at 08:50 AM

Forecast was for 1.5'' rain every hour for Palm Springs but that didn't happen. Coachella Valley was on the edge of the storm and some roads flooded and closed (arroyos), but all minor.

pauldavidmena - 12-27-2025 at 09:03 AM

We ended up getting about 3 inches overnight here on Cape Cod.



Serving suggestion: homemade chicken stock for Pho.

Needless to say, we look forward to being in Baja in 32 days (not that we're counting)!

[Edited on 12-30-2025 by pauldavidmena]

Equipatas

lencho - 12-27-2025 at 09:52 AM

Quote: Originally posted by latitude32  
rained like heck in Santa Barbara how much did Baja get?

The south end had equipatas for several days straight, a few weeks ago, nothing since.

[Edited on 1-1-2026 by lencho]

pauldavidmena - 12-28-2025 at 08:21 AM

Quote: Originally posted by lencho  
Quote: Originally posted by latitude32  
rained like heck in Santa Barbara how much did Baja get?

The south end had equipatas for several days straight, a few weeks ago, nothing since.


Such a great word - and website. I've bookmarked it.

surfhat - 12-28-2025 at 01:07 PM

If there is one fellow Nomad that can appreciate what our beloved Baja freely gives us all, it has to be that example of a snow covered outside table and deck in wintertime Mass.

I assure you none of us are envious of that snow covered deck and why we live where we do.

You are a treasure here for your contributions to Baja Nomad.

Even more for the brrrr you put up with until you come back to our beloved Baja, norte and sur.

Fall time in the Boston area is a true natural wonder. The local lobster rolls live up to and support this wonder of an environment you enjoy, while it lasts. haha

Peace and love to all you Nomads where ever your roam or reside.



pauldavidmena - 12-29-2025 at 07:58 AM

Thank you for the kind words!

As I get older, I believe New England snowfall makes for pretty postcards but not much more than that. Here on Cape Cod, winters are peaceful and quiet, but also potentially isolating. It's always best to keep busy and to stay warm planning for the next trip to Baja.

For us, it's thirty days away. We'll only be gone for 2 weeks, but that will be the longest vacation we've taken since 2000.

cupcake - 12-30-2025 at 01:29 PM

Not Baja, but not far north of the border...

Cars turning around at flooded road in San Gabriel Mountains on 24 December. This caused me an extra six miles round trip of road walking. No way to drive a mid-sized car across this.
https://i.postimg.cc/jq8NpYJH/IMG20251224081801.jpg

My 3-season tent at 8,800 feet in the morning, well-guyed out, after a night of sustained 50-mile an hour winds. You can see the wind pushing against the right side of the tent. Glad it wasn't shredded. A challenge to set up and take down in that wind, without having anything blow away. 28 December.
https://i.postimg.cc/Px5bDXwh/IMG20251228084554.jpg

28 December, about 9,500 feet in the San Gabriels. Trees plastered, path on left.
https://i.postimg.cc/m2sY3yMM/IMG20251228095937.jpg

click images for enlargements


[Edited on 12-30-2025 by cupcake]

cupcake - 12-30-2025 at 02:13 PM

3 hikers found dead after high winds halt helicopter rescue in California
https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/3-hikers-found-dead-...

It was well below freezing at night when this happened (my water bags were freezing inside my tent). Not easy to survive a night out if you don't have the gear for it. The temperature, combined with those winds, and the wind chill is well below freezing. While my 3-season tent could easily have been shredded, my 4-season sleeping bag and other gear would have seen me safely through the night. GOT to have crampons for this in the winter, and enough experience to deal with the terrain. So very sad.

I took this photo of a young man on the Baldy summit, December 28. I talked briefly with him. He looked well-prepared, with good boots, crampons, and ice axe. Even with this good gear, it would be difficult to spend a night out in such conditions, without a 4-season sleeping bag and 4-season parka.

I believe this young man had come up the Devil's Backbone route, while I ascended and descended the Baldy Bowl Trail route. I hope he is not one of the deceased.

https://i.postimg.cc/90DqC14V/IMG20251228103803.jpg

click image for enlargement


[Edited on 12-31-2025 by cupcake]

surabi - 12-30-2025 at 03:29 PM

One of the things about being young is that we tend to feel invulnerable and haven't had the life experience to always make intelligent decisions. I can think back on some things I did in my youth that I would now consider foolish and was just lucky that it didn't result in a dangerous or tragic situation.

One of the most extreme examples is the guy who the movie "128 hours" was about. He never told anyone where he was going, or when he planned to be back, so no one knew to be worried about him and go look for him when he was trapped with a boulder pinning his arm to the wall for 5 days, and he would have died if he hadn't cut his own arm off. Even then, he would have died from blood loss had he not encountered other hikers in the area.

[Edited on 12-30-2025 by surabi]

BajaBlanca - 12-31-2025 at 05:52 AM

I wish I could post a photo but Turkey does not allow me to.

The weather has been wavering between wonderful and torrential rain

Happy New Year!!

pauldavidmena - 12-31-2025 at 08:32 AM

It seems we're not done here on Cape Cod. It looks like this will be either the last snow of 2025 or the first of 2026 (or both).

mtgoat666 - 12-31-2025 at 09:43 AM

Quote: Originally posted by BajaBlanca  
I wish I could post a photo but Turkey does not allow me to.

The weather has been wavering between wonderful and torrential rain

Happy New Year!!



I have heard that Turkey has created draconian laws about posting images of people online. Are you really prohibited by State from posting photos here?

Tioloco - 12-31-2025 at 11:12 AM

Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666  
Quote: Originally posted by BajaBlanca  
I wish I could post a photo but Turkey does not allow me to.

The weather has been wavering between wonderful and torrential rain

Happy New Year!!



I have heard that Turkey has created draconian laws about posting images of people online. Are you really prohibited by State from posting photos here?


Probably in her best interest not to answer that. It is an authoritarian state under Erdogan and not a free country.

Tioloco - 12-31-2025 at 01:54 PM

Quote: Originally posted by lencho  
Quote: Originally posted by Tioloco  
Probably in her best interest not to answer that.


Personally, I think the U.S. could learn a thing or two from that. :light:


Wise counsel would be to go to Turkey and live there for a while and personally experience the type of government they have before wishing for it to be here. Speaking out against the government is not tolerated many places outside of the USA.

mtgoat666 - 12-31-2025 at 03:10 PM

Quote: Originally posted by Tioloco  
Quote: Originally posted by lencho  
Quote: Originally posted by Tioloco  
Probably in her best interest not to answer that.


Personally, I think the U.S. could learn a thing or two from that. :light:


Speaking out against the government is not tolerated many places outside of the USA.


Freedom of speech against the government in USA has been severely eroded under Trump... Trump's intolerance of dissent takes after Erdogan, and is nothing like the ideals espoused by James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin.

Tioloco - 12-31-2025 at 03:59 PM

goat- take your partisan political garbage back to your OFF-TOPIC dungeon.

surabi - 12-31-2025 at 07:40 PM

The Off Topic dungeon where you post your vile sexual fantasies and call other posters profane names?