Snowpack......

 7:42 am - Friday - January 31st - TWW - 26° F, humidity 64%, wind 7 mph out of the southeast....crystal clear blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 57° F.  On this date in 2012 TLE and I were at an Escapee Park near Temecula, CA having our first solar panels installed....

....the guy on the roof is Mike Sylvester of 'The RV Guy'.  He worked for AM Solar out of Springfield, OR as a remote installer.  Regretfully, AM Solar is no longer in business as of June of 2024.  The view this morning.....

.....at 7:54 am our Eco-Worthy Dual Axis solar array tilted toward the rising sun....yesterday (Thursday) they tilted (see the red circle in the above picture) at 8 am on an, also, very clear morning.

We've been kind of snowbound since Sunday afternoon, and we hadn't been to town for 9 days.  We knew we had a lot of mail to retrieve from our PO Box in Seligman, so  we decided to walk out to the entry road to TWW  to see how bad the snow was out there.  The entire road, except for maybe 100' was still covered with 4" of crusty snow, which had melted, and frozen a few times over the past few days.  To be sure we could safely drive that road out to the main arterial road I hopped in the Yamaha Rhino, put it in 4 wheel drive, and headed out to the entry road to drive up and down it to pack the snow, and make the drive a little easier....

Looking north.....

....looking south, back toward TWW entrance

.....I finished packing the 1/2 mile of road surface around 11 am, and by 12:30 am we were driving the Expedition northward on the entrance road on our way to Seligman.  The main arterial dirt road that is somewhat maintained by Yavapai County (they run a road grader over it every two months, and it's been almost 2 months since their last pass), was in pretty decent shape, so we made it out to US-66 in about 10 minutes.  We arrived in Seligman around 1 pm, and headed directly for the Post Office to get our packages.  This time they were all in a parcel locker, so we were in and out within a few minutes.

Next we walked across the parking lot to the Family Dollar store to pickup some orange juice, and a couple of other items before beginning our drive right back to TWW, arriving back there by 1:40 pm....that's the fastest round trip to Seligman we've ever made.  By the time we began our final approach on the entrance road it was beginning to get a little muddy in one spot, but otherwise it was fine.  We'll have to address that muddy spot with a heavy dose of gravel in the near future.

By the time we changed out of our 'city clothes' it was well after 2 pm, and I was mostly done with outdoor activity.  The snow on the ground is melting pretty fast now......

....and we are hoping we'll be able to move Phyllis' sister Newell Coach in the next couple of days to make way for our move to our new site.  I need to add another bucket of gravel to the site on Friday, or Saturday to finish leveling it, and then on Tuesday we will make the move.

The snow on the north side of the coach has hardly melted as it is in the shade pretty much 24/7.....

....and until we move our coach I don't think it will melt.  And that, my friends, brings us to the end of another TWW day.

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