Well, for all that the 2001/02 winter lacked for in snow, the spring was interesting. One particular Sunday I snowshoed to the cabin. The following Monday and Tuesday it was 70 degrees all day. In April or early May, 70 degrees here is an insane heat wave. Three feet or more (in areas) of snow almost entirely melted in 48 hours. Despite there not really being that much water in the ground as snow, it all went so fast that there was some record water in the woods this spring in places. (this later turned into one of the worst mosquito hatches anyone seems to remember)

In any case, I was very curious to get out and see what all this flooding looked like, so I headed back out to the cabin again. This time walking, and carrying a backpack. At one point for a few hundred yards, I had to walk through chest deep water due to flooding, holding my backpack over my head and trying to force a way through the slush and ice floating in the water. No, it wasn't cold. It only felt cold for about a half a second before it numbed anything in the water. :-)

The next day, the heat wave broke, but still was a hot (after winter anyway) 45 and sunny, and I spent the day walking around barefoot--no sense getting my shoes wet--wading through the snowmelt lakes and seeing where it was going, and collecting, and so on.

To get this picture, I had to wade out butt-deep into the water. Well, that wasn't a huge issue. I'd been walking through water all day. The annoying part was having to then stand still long enough for the ripples to die so that I could take this.
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