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Results of a disastrous forest policy, an aging and abandoned interior with a high degree of rural spraw and very hilly terrain, pls a particularly hot and dry summer, and a record breaking October heat!!
Another 36 people dead due to forest fires, 100 this year
How the sky looked in my town
other areas, mostly around Viseu, in the center-North, the most affected area
newspaper covers
That made an impression.
Sad, but still thank you for posting.
A bad or missing land use policy and intense and long-lasting heat with too little rain is clearly a bad combination.
Nice! Looks like perfect weather for such a hike. Strange kudzuesque vegetation near the summit, looks like dwarf conifers?
I bet you could hear the noises of the town from all the way up, being just above it.
Thanks, and yes indeed! I could hear something tooting (the trains?) even at the top of the mountain. The dwarf trees are some sort of pine trees, no idea which...
Finally made it to the Alps, sadly only cellphone pics:
Zugspitze:
Went up there (Kramerspitze, elevation 1985 m, about 1300 m elevation gain):
Along the trail...
lol, when I saw the Alpine architecture I assumed it was Botev's photos of that fake German village in Washington state. The mountains look a bit like the Cascades near that town.
Hard freeze tonight. Umeå Airport (frosthollow) managed -6.4'C! Other stations nearby stopped at -3 to -4'C.
How come there's never frost underneath things? Does it really stay above freezing underneath a trampoline or ia it the humidity that gets blocked? What's going on here???
Dandelions still alive. For some reason. These are early summer/late spring flowers and normally disappear in July and August. Then they reemerge in October. Last year they were still around in November.
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