“Sunday River, Sugarloaf, and Bretton Woods all fired ‘em up last night,”

[Gunks Ray]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/09/19/record-cold-grips-northern-new-england-snow-guns-fire-up-at-ski-resorts/?tid=trending_strip_1

It's getting closer :-)

[aqua toque]

Hey that's great.

But in the old days you guys would start posting fall colors threads around this time of year.

Have we skipped right over the fall colors threads and gone straight to snow guns?

[chamonix]

Have we skipped right over the fall colors threads and gone straight to snow guns?

for aqua toque
Fall colours in Vermont

[Baaahb]

c'mon, let's see some COLOR

[Sugarloafer]

From Sugarloaf yesterday. Rumor is they're going to try to open for Halloween….haven't done that in a VERY long time (about 1995).

[RobRoyMeans]

Awesome color SL! Nice shootin

[Sugarloafer]

Awesome color SL! Nice shootin

I know you're familiar with the area…..the top one is a view of Crocker Cirque and the bottom one is looking up the Carrabassett River at the Bigelow range.

[chamonix]

Here is some more, unfiltered. I can enhance the color with Photoshop if you want..
friends in their canoe more color

enhanced color, this is how it looks to the naked eye

more "enhanced"


Paddling my solo canoe... taking a break for lunch...

All these pictures were taken at the Green River Reservoir near Morrisville , Vermont on Saturday

[RobRoyMeans]

Apparently we are to be treated to Fall color. Real nice shooting by Chamo and SL!

[Baaahb]

wish I was there!

[aqua toque]

more "enhanced"

Easy on the saturation there fellas!

Some of us have sensitive rods and cones.

[aqua toque]

Mainly yellow around these parts.

(Disclaimer: photo has been rotated 180 degrees using image-editing software.)

[Baaahb]

This is what we call fall color out west.

[NoPin]

S/E BC fall colours:

[Baaahb]

Can we have some more input from the east coast? Otherwise I'll just have to settle for more of this.

BTW, does anyone know why some (very few) aspens turn bright orange and even red? Is that a genetic variation or vagaries of climate? Nature or nurture? Should I go dig up the reddest aspens I can find and bring them home? (Especially if they're in the yard of some McMansion)