Mid winter defrost complete

I went up to the property to pick up some tools, and encountered fog.  A lot of fog.  It wasn't too bad up at the property, but on the roads in the valley leading up to the property were borderline terrifying.  I went the back way in since it has been warm and raining, so the road shouldn't have been terrible, but holy fog batman.  It was so thick I was literally driving with my head out the window, on the wrong side of the road so that I could see the edge of the pavement and snowbank junction, since I literally could not see pavement in front of my car.  To boot, I took a longer but main road route back, and as soon as I got to the main road, it was blocked off, closed, for what appeared to be a wreck.  So I had to go down the scary road again.  Just to give you reference, the road is more windy than county rte 49, at most as wide, and the hill is steeper than the route 29 Schuylerville hill, and the road has no lines on it.  So what is normally a half hour drive both ways took me over an hour.  

I didn't get any pictures of the fog on the road as my attention was not on my camera, but I got a video of it at the property.

I decided to use this excursion as a test for my new headlight.  It was brighter than I expected.  These pictures were taken without flash at 10PM, and I didn't have to crank the ISO on the camera either.  These were taken at ISO400 which is what I normally use for indoor pictures.




The headlamp is better for taking night fog pictures too.  This is what it looks like with the flash on.




My car made it all the way up the hill, there is only a little bit of ice left in the driveway, and it is near the bottom in one of the flatter areas.
The area up by the slab is clear.  This was taken with only the headlamp on, no flash.


I attempted to take pictures of the ice area, but it doesn't look like it worked out too well...  It is in the washed out blob in the middle.


The creek is right up to the top.




This is the headlamp.  It was a cheapy from Amazon.  I meant to grab one of dad's while I was down there for Christmas, but forgot.  For the 13 bucks I spent on it, I am happy.  It is only 165 lumen, but the brighter ones were more expensive, and it is plenty bright enough to snowblow with.  Last time I snowblowed at night all I had was one of those free Harbor Freight LED flashlights, and this is a massive upgrade.  It only has a few angle settings, but they seemed to cover all the angles that matter.  My only real complaint is that with long hair, the band kept sliding around.  I didn't have it particularly tight, but this is a common problem I have with hats and whatnot as well.


It also turns out I am heading back to France on the 21st for a week.  Our flights were booked today.