Cabin fever?

 8:12 am - Monday - November 24th - TWW - 37° F, humidity 59%, wind 2 mph out of the south by southeast.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 57° F.  On this date in 2017 I took a 7.1 mile round trip hike on the Grandview Trail at the Grand Canyon....the trail was extremely steep, and treacherous.....

The arrow indicates my destination, and turn around point....Horseshoe Mesa

Back at the parking lot after 3.5 hours of hiking....I was gassed

.....TLE began the hike with me, but did not like the condition of the trail, or its steepness....most of the hike the gradient was over 10%, so I did the hike solo.

For the 5th straight day we had rain, but it was over by 9 am.  The skies remained heavily overcast for much of the day, only beginning to clear near 4 pm.  It was too cold to do anything outdoors, so TLE and I spent the day indoors once again.  I hate to admit it, but we are beginning to get a case of 'cabin fever'.  On a positive note, relief is near.  As I write Monday morning there is not a SINGLE cloud in the sky, and there is no wind.  The view this morning.....

.....due to the lack of any sun to warm up the Newell we had to keep cycling the gas furnaces on and off throughout the day to keep it comfortable.  We both spend a lot of time reading with NFL games being played in the background.  My L.A. Rams won the night cap handily 34-7, and it wasn't even really that close.  They now have the best record in the NFC at 9-2.

Our Eco Worthy Solar tracking system finally tilted toward the late afternoon sun shower, but only for about 20 minutes.  We did have an interesting sunset....

Looking south

Looking west

....we really need to get out the stainless steel portable firepit, and be outside for the sunset.

According to the two week forecast for this area we will not have any rain during that duration, which takes us into the first week of December, but the overnight lows will be heading for the high 20's in the not too distant future.

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