Episode Transcript
[0:00:00 – 0:00:01] UNKNOWN: Thank you.
[0:00:33 – 0:00:34] UNKNOWN: Yes, yes.
[0:00:52 – 0:00:54] AdamSnowLog: Bonjour, you renounce.
[0:00:55 – 0:00:57] AdamSnowLog: My name is Francois Lake, I start from you.
[0:00:58 – 0:00:59] AdamSnowLog: I’m from the Tumble Shed.
[0:00:59 – 0:01:05] AdamSnowLog: This is your ninth and final chapter of the Snow Log for 2024.
[0:01:06 – 0:01:08] AdamSnowLog: Thank you for being here this evening.
[0:01:11 – 0:01:22] AdamSnowLog: It is April 20th, 2024, and I actually woke up to a pretty reasonable dusting of snow this morning.
[0:01:25 – 0:01:28] AdamSnowLog: It all basically melted off before we got to noon even.
[0:01:30 – 0:01:34] AdamSnowLog: Can’t really count that one, and I think we’re going to call it 35 inches for the year.
[0:01:35 – 0:01:35] AdamSnowLog: 35 inches?
[0:01:36 – 0:01:41] AdamSnowLog: Last year we were over 140-something, 147, so we’re about 100 short of a reasonable winter.
[0:01:41 – 0:01:41] AdamSnowLog: And, uh…
[0:01:48 – 0:01:53] AdamSnowLog: Yeah, I mean, it wasn’t exactly an anti-winter, but it was a strange winter in many ways.
[0:01:53 – 0:01:57] AdamSnowLog: So we made the most of it, you know.
[0:01:58 – 0:02:00] AdamSnowLog: What else can you do?
[0:02:00 – 0:02:03] AdamSnowLog: 35 inches, though, total, and none of that all, like, happened together either, I think.
[0:02:03 – 0:02:09] AdamSnowLog: So, yeah, the most we ever had on the ground was, like, you know, 14, 15.
[0:02:09 – 0:02:12] AdamSnowLog: Depends on where you measured it with the snow stick, but…
[0:02:13 – 0:02:15] AdamSnowLog: We were never able to get past that.
[0:02:16 – 0:02:26] AdamSnowLog: Two different full melts in there, like more heavy rain and thunder than real good snowstorms, and I only really had to fire up this John Deere snowblower a handful of times all winter.
[0:02:28 – 0:02:47] AdamSnowLog: pretty weak but uh yeah as of april 20th uh 2024 there is like zero snow left like i said i was um yesterday i was working in the yard and it had said like there’s a chance of flurries and i did see a couple snowflakes just here and there in the wind and uh
[0:02:48 – 0:03:17] AdamSnowLog: you know went to bed and i thought well that was that but no woke up this morning and kind of rubbed the eye eyeballs as i walked out here to start coffee and um there’s snow everywhere you know but like i said it was enough to cover the driveway and you know made the steps a little slippery but yeah morning dog walk but yeah before noon it was the sun came up today and it wasn’t really a warm day either but it was enough to melt that off
[0:03:18 – 0:03:22] AdamSnowLog: The ground’s not really much for frozen anymore, so it ain’t gonna stick around.
[0:03:26 – 0:03:30] AdamSnowLog: Yeah, we got 50s in the forecast all week, so I think that’s it.
[0:03:32 – 0:03:45] AdamSnowLog: The lakes have officially opened up as of, I don’t know, I started hearing about a lot of smaller lakes opening up and then even a few big ones in the last week here.
[0:03:47 – 0:03:48] AdamSnowLog: And so the lakes are open.
[0:03:48 – 0:03:50] AdamSnowLog: You could be out there April paddling right now.
[0:03:51 – 0:03:52] AdamSnowLog: I have not gotten the canoe out, but…
[0:03:53 – 0:03:54] AdamSnowLog: It’s possible.
[0:03:54 – 0:03:59] AdamSnowLog: I guarantee you there’s somebody on the boundary waters right now on a free permit.
[0:03:59 – 0:04:00] AdamSnowLog: Got the whole place to themselves probably.
[0:04:02 – 0:04:05] AdamSnowLog: Sure, some of the bigger lakes you probably don’t want to mess with right now.
[0:04:06 – 0:04:10] AdamSnowLog: But if you stuck to a smaller chain of lakes, I think you can definitely make an April trip happen.
[0:04:10 – 0:04:11] AdamSnowLog: April.
[0:04:11 – 0:04:12] AdamSnowLog: It’s the new October.
[0:04:15 – 0:04:18] AdamSnowLog: Um, I did put the skis away this morning, finally.
[0:04:19 – 0:04:23] AdamSnowLog: Um, took them out of the mudroom and put them back in the deep storage for the summer.
[0:04:23 – 0:04:26] AdamSnowLog: So, um, threw the boots in the back corner of there.
[0:04:27 – 0:04:27] AdamSnowLog: That’s it.
[0:04:28 – 0:04:32] AdamSnowLog: Um, trading the skis for loppers, permanento.
[0:04:33 – 0:04:35] AdamSnowLog: Not quite paddle yet, but definitely lopper season.
[0:04:37 – 0:04:51] AdamSnowLog: I only ended up getting out for one ski shore, me and Arrow, and never even, that was with the backcountry skis, and I never even really managed to get the skate skis out at all.
[0:04:51 – 0:04:57] AdamSnowLog: I did wax them, and I had them sitting here all winter ready to go and just never got out.
[0:04:58 – 0:05:05] AdamSnowLog: So that was pretty sad, but they’ll be ready to go for next winter then, I guess.
[0:05:07 – 0:05:16] AdamSnowLog: I ran the gas out of the John Deere and pulled the spark plug for the summer so I can push that one into the corner of the garage.
[0:05:17 – 0:05:23] AdamSnowLog: And yeah, working on the Joe Pera-esque bean trellis.
[0:05:24 – 0:05:25] AdamSnowLog: Got that going.
[0:05:27 – 0:05:28] AdamSnowLog: You know, starting to look forward.
[0:05:31 – 0:05:32] AdamSnowLog: It’s still looking pretty dead in the yard though.
[0:05:35 – 0:05:37] AdamSnowLog: Nothing’s really greening up around here yet.
[0:05:39 – 0:05:42] AdamSnowLog: We were lucky, pretty fortunate.
[0:05:43 – 0:05:45] AdamSnowLog: I had missed the 2017 one.
[0:05:45 – 0:05:49] AdamSnowLog: It was the middle of August, and I just could not make the trip.
[0:05:49 – 0:05:51] AdamSnowLog: But I’ve been planning it ever since.
[0:05:53 – 0:05:54] AdamSnowLog: 2024, April 9th.
[0:05:56 – 0:06:05] AdamSnowLog: The whole family managed to get together in beautiful, beautiful Nashville, Indiana for the total solar eclipse.
[0:06:06 – 0:06:06] AdamSnowLog: And…
[0:06:07 – 0:06:08] AdamSnowLog: The weather cooperated.
[0:06:09 – 0:06:12] AdamSnowLog: We had pretty much perfect weather on Monday for that one.
[0:06:14 – 0:06:17] AdamSnowLog: And I got to see one in my lifetime.
[0:06:17 – 0:06:19] AdamSnowLog: So I feel very fortunate.
[0:06:20 – 0:06:21] AdamSnowLog: The whole family made it.
[0:06:22 – 0:06:24] AdamSnowLog: All sides of the family showed up.
[0:06:26 – 0:06:34] AdamSnowLog: We rented a whole big house, an old haunted Airbnb that now you can just rent the whole thing out.
[0:06:34 – 0:06:37] AdamSnowLog: But we each had our own room there in this big house in Nashville.
[0:06:38 – 0:06:38] AdamSnowLog: Cute little town.
[0:06:38 – 0:06:40] AdamSnowLog: Reminds me a lot of Grand Marais.
[0:06:43 – 0:06:44] AdamSnowLog: It’s in southern Indiana.
[0:06:46 – 0:06:49] AdamSnowLog: And so it’s in sort of this cool hill country.
[0:06:49 – 0:06:52] AdamSnowLog: It reminds me a lot of the Driftless area in Wisconsin.
[0:06:54 – 0:06:59] AdamSnowLog: Just neat, deep little valleys and really good tree.
[0:06:59 – 0:07:02] AdamSnowLog: It’s not at all what I would picture when I think of Indiana.
[0:07:03 – 0:07:08] AdamSnowLog: But this is a cute little town, just a little tourist town, about the size of Grand Marais.
[0:07:08 – 0:07:09] AdamSnowLog: Same kind of feel.
[0:07:10 – 0:07:11] AdamSnowLog: Really neat place.
[0:07:12 – 0:07:15] AdamSnowLog: And it was just kind of perfectly centrally located for everybody in the family.
[0:07:16 – 0:07:18] AdamSnowLog: Some coming from the south, we’re coming from the north.
[0:07:19 – 0:07:25] AdamSnowLog: We had people coming from the east and the west and all just sort of converged perfectly there in southern Indiana.
[0:07:26 – 0:07:28] AdamSnowLog: Right in the smack dab in the middle of totality.
[0:07:30 – 0:07:33] AdamSnowLog: And made it all down there, had a nice long weekend.
[0:07:33 – 0:07:35] AdamSnowLog: And then eclipse day was on Monday.
[0:07:36 – 0:07:46] AdamSnowLog: And, you know, I guess if you had asked me at the beginning of the winter if the eclipse would end up being the highlight of the winter season, I probably would have guessed it would have been.
[0:07:47 – 0:07:53] AdamSnowLog: But the way the winter ended up working out, I mean, this was really a special moment getting everybody down there.
[0:07:54 – 0:07:58] AdamSnowLog: And the trees, it was very much springtime down there.
[0:07:59 – 0:08:04] AdamSnowLog: Made you forget about winter real quick once you got, you know, pretty much south of…
[0:08:05 – 0:08:30] AdamSnowLog: Yeah, so the Rockford really but like once you got to like Indianapolis and south of there then the trees were flowering The grass was bright green Birds are chirping, you know, it was shorts and t-shirt weather instantly and I’m talking short shorts friends Real short, you know, I gotta let those gotta let the legs out after a long winter it may not snowed a lot up here, but
[0:08:30 – 0:08:57] AdamSnowLog: it’s a lot of days of long underwear and uh not enough short weather during the summers during the the winter but yeah it was really beautiful down there and we uh yeah we had a beautiful deck like facing south with like a perfect view and uh brother uh grilled up a wonderful shish kebab uh feast and uh we had cake and
[0:08:59 – 0:09:04] AdamSnowLog: Cold beverage and my feet got a little sunburned, but not too bad.
[0:09:04 – 0:09:08] AdamSnowLog: So yeah, everybody was there and it was really neat.
[0:09:10 – 0:09:17] AdamSnowLog: You know, you see videos of these things and I know like I definitely was in danger of becoming an eclipse person after witnessing this thing.
[0:09:18 – 0:09:25] AdamSnowLog: But really, seeing the total eclipse in person, it’s not all that different from seeing a video of it.
[0:09:26 – 0:09:27] AdamSnowLog: I mean, that’s what it looks like.
[0:09:27 – 0:09:30] AdamSnowLog: It makes you feel real small.
[0:09:32 – 0:09:33] AdamSnowLog: Real humbling experience.
[0:09:35 – 0:09:39] AdamSnowLog: Seeing a shadow of that magnitude sweep over the land around you.
[0:09:41 – 0:09:48] AdamSnowLog: And I looked into it and the shadow, you know, by the time it got to Indiana was going like 1400 miles an hour, 122 miles wide.
[0:09:52 – 0:09:55] AdamSnowLog: And that took about four minutes for that to go over us.
[0:09:55 – 0:09:59] AdamSnowLog: And it was four minutes of my life I will never, ever forget.
[0:10:02 – 0:10:11] AdamSnowLog: You know, just the way it was like framed up by this big tree in the yard and having everybody there and, you know, the streetlights come on.
[0:10:12 – 0:10:13] AdamSnowLog: The wildlife’s getting a little weird.
[0:10:13 – 0:10:18] AdamSnowLog: The birds start doing different chirps, night songs.
[0:10:19 – 0:10:27] AdamSnowLog: But I wasn’t prepared to, like, it was going to get so dark that you’d be able to see Jupiter and Venus in some star action.
[0:10:29 – 0:10:33] AdamSnowLog: And, yeah, my brother was at the one in 2017.
[0:10:33 – 0:10:36] AdamSnowLog: He said this one was way darker for some reason.
[0:10:37 – 0:10:38] AdamSnowLog: And it was dark, friends.
[0:10:39 – 0:10:43] AdamSnowLog: For that brief moment it was dark and you could just take your glasses off and look right at the thing.
[0:10:46 – 0:10:55] AdamSnowLog: The sun covered up by the moon and the shadow plunged us all into darkness for just those couple of minutes.
[0:10:56 – 0:11:05] AdamSnowLog: But it was like the 10 minutes on either side of totality that I thought was actually the most interesting part of the whole thing.
[0:11:05 – 0:11:10] AdamSnowLog: And the way the colors just were all wrong and off and wonderful.
[0:11:12 – 0:11:18] AdamSnowLog: And the shadows got real fuzzy on one side and sharp on the other and then vice versa.
[0:11:21 – 0:11:23] AdamSnowLog: Yeah, it just felt like you’re in another dimension.
[0:11:24 – 0:11:27] AdamSnowLog: for those 10 minutes on each side at totality.
[0:11:28 – 0:11:32] AdamSnowLog: And, you know, looking up at totality itself was really cool.
[0:11:34 – 0:11:43] AdamSnowLog: And we had this solar scope thing out so you could look at, like, the shadow progress across the face of the sun and even see the sunspots themselves through the little scope thing.
[0:11:44 – 0:11:47] AdamSnowLog: And we all had glasses on so you can look right at the thing.
[0:11:49 – 0:11:58] AdamSnowLog: It was like looking around at all the other stuff in the yard and, like, looking at the faces of everybody that we were with there that day.
[0:11:59 – 0:12:03] AdamSnowLog: And seeing them looking at it, I think that’s really the thing that’s stuck with me now.
[0:12:06 – 0:12:08] AdamSnowLog: Been over a week now since we got back.
[0:12:08 – 0:12:12] AdamSnowLog: Yeah, it was just weird.
[0:12:13 – 0:12:15] AdamSnowLog: It was just weird, but in a wonderful kind of way.
[0:12:18 – 0:12:25] AdamSnowLog: You know, looking at that thing going by and then just thinking about your life, you know.
[0:12:25 – 0:12:25] AdamSnowLog: I don’t know.
[0:12:26 – 0:12:29] AdamSnowLog: It’s just one of those moments that is seared into my brain.
[0:12:31 – 0:12:33] AdamSnowLog: And I’m going to take that with me for a long time.
[0:12:36 – 0:12:36] AdamSnowLog: Really neat.
[0:12:38 – 0:12:52] AdamSnowLog: One other notable event that happened, I told you the lakes, all the ice is starting to go out, except for maybe some of the very big lakes at this point, but we had a really insane wind on the 16th.
[0:12:52 – 0:12:56] AdamSnowLog: I think it was Tuesday?
[0:12:58 – 0:12:59] AdamSnowLog: I think it was Tuesday, yeah.
[0:13:00 – 0:13:07] AdamSnowLog: I was about to leave work and go get the baby from daycare and head home, and Natalie texted me.
[0:13:07 – 0:13:08] AdamSnowLog: She’s like, the power’s out.
[0:13:09 – 0:13:15] AdamSnowLog: I mean, you know, I’ve seen some windy days living on the North Shore, but this one may have been the windiest I’ve ever seen.
[0:13:15 – 0:13:19] AdamSnowLog: And she texts the power’s out, and it’s like, yeah, well, that makes sense.
[0:13:19 – 0:13:21] AdamSnowLog: There’s a tree down on the line somewhere.
[0:13:22 – 0:13:26] AdamSnowLog: And before I finish this story, I forgot.
[0:13:26 – 0:13:28] AdamSnowLog: I have a show sponsor tonight.
[0:13:29 – 0:13:31] AdamSnowLog: I brought this one back from Indiana.
[0:13:32 – 0:13:33] AdamSnowLog: I’m not sure where it was acquired from.
[0:13:33 – 0:13:38] AdamSnowLog: This is a Bell’s Special Edition Oberon Eclipse Citrus Wheat.
[0:13:41 – 0:13:42] AdamSnowLog: Really good.
[0:13:42 – 0:13:45] AdamSnowLog: I’ve had a few of these, but I did save one just for this special moment.
[0:13:45 – 0:13:46] AdamSnowLog: And I’m thirsty.
[0:13:47 – 0:13:48] AdamSnowLog: Gotta have it.
[0:13:52 – 0:13:53] AdamSnowLog: Thank you.
[0:13:57 – 0:13:59] AdamSnowLog: Thank you, Mike and Dana, for the bells.
[0:14:01 – 0:14:08] AdamSnowLog: Yeah, we had these, and somehow they didn’t all get drink during the eclipse, so we were clearing out the place on the Tuesday morning.
[0:14:08 – 0:14:11] AdamSnowLog: Everybody’s hitting the road, and I was like, well, I’ll take those.
[0:14:12 – 0:14:17] AdamSnowLog: So I threw them in the back of the fridge, and, you know, it’s a classic citrus wheat.
[0:14:17 – 0:14:18] AdamSnowLog: Can’t go wrong with that.
[0:14:19 – 0:14:20] AdamSnowLog: We also stopped at Upland.
[0:14:21 – 0:14:23] AdamSnowLog: A special side shout-out to Upland Brewing.
[0:14:24 – 0:14:25] AdamSnowLog: in Bloomington.
[0:14:26 – 0:14:36] AdamSnowLog: I got to go to walk around IU with Natalie and Roan and her family and a beautiful campus where Natalie graduated there.
[0:14:37 – 0:14:39] AdamSnowLog: She hadn’t been back in a long time and I’d never been and
[0:14:41 – 0:14:46] AdamSnowLog: You know, I’m not big dead material, but it’s a really cool campus.
[0:14:46 – 0:14:50] AdamSnowLog: And Upland Brewing there, we had lunch there at like the original Upland.
[0:14:52 – 0:14:55] AdamSnowLog: And they had a special edition beer called Don’t Stare at the Sun.
[0:14:56 – 0:15:00] AdamSnowLog: And I managed to not stare at the sun, you know, without my glasses on.
[0:15:01 – 0:15:02] AdamSnowLog: And it was a really, really nice one.
[0:15:03 – 0:15:06] AdamSnowLog: And like a breaded pork tenderloin sandwich.
[0:15:07 – 0:15:08] AdamSnowLog: It was bangers.
[0:15:08 – 0:15:10] AdamSnowLog: Very much like a Schmitty at Trail Center.
[0:15:12 – 0:15:15] AdamSnowLog: Anyways, this Oberon Eclipse, pretty good.
[0:15:15 – 0:15:16] AdamSnowLog: Pretty darn good.
[0:15:17 – 0:15:18] AdamSnowLog: It’s bringing me back.
[0:15:20 – 0:15:28] AdamSnowLog: But yeah, coming home from work and power’s out so I’m like, I’m looking for where the tree is that’s down on the line.
[0:15:29 – 0:15:30] AdamSnowLog: It’s somewhere out there on 14.
[0:15:33 – 0:15:37] AdamSnowLog: And I’m coming home, and I don’t see nothing.
[0:15:37 – 0:15:42] AdamSnowLog: And it’s probably been about a half hour since Natalie texted me that the power’s been out.
[0:15:43 – 0:15:49] AdamSnowLog: And I come around the corner, getting pretty close to home here, and there’s smoke coming down the road.
[0:15:51 – 0:15:57] AdamSnowLog: I’m telling you, it’s windy, like nervous wind, you know, red flag warning kind of wind.
[0:15:57 – 0:15:58] AdamSnowLog: Like all the fire departments are on red alert.
[0:15:58 – 0:15:59] AdamSnowLog: Everybody’s ready.
[0:16:01 – 0:16:02] AdamSnowLog: We had gotten some snow at least.
[0:16:03 – 0:16:10] AdamSnowLog: And it had been raining a little, but it’s still like dry, just really bad conditions right now.
[0:16:11 – 0:16:12] AdamSnowLog: I’m not kidding.
[0:16:12 – 0:16:15] AdamSnowLog: It was like the kind of wind that just rocking the truck back and forth.
[0:16:16 – 0:16:16] AdamSnowLog: Yeah, it’s a tundra.
[0:16:16 – 0:16:20] AdamSnowLog: This is a serious truck and it’s getting blown all over the road.
[0:16:22 – 0:16:25] AdamSnowLog: So I come around the corner and there’s pretty good smoke coming down the road.
[0:16:27 – 0:16:32] AdamSnowLog: And I drive around the last bend before the driveway and the entire ditch is on fire.
[0:16:33 – 0:16:36] AdamSnowLog: And there’s a live line in the road sparking and smoke everywhere.
[0:16:36 – 0:16:37] AdamSnowLog: And…
[0:16:41 – 0:16:54] AdamSnowLog: So I come to a stop, and I assess, and the flames are in the ditch, and they’re still taller than the mailboxes, and there’s just dry grass everywhere, and as I said, the wind is nuts.
[0:16:55 – 0:17:10] AdamSnowLog: And I know the power’s out, and I don’t really want to drive across the live line and the road, and so Natalie’s parents’ place is, like, behind me in this scenario, so I just ripped it in reverse, and I never drove it in reverse so fast in my life.
[0:17:11 – 0:17:17] AdamSnowLog: I went all the way back to their place because I’m like, oh, I’ll be able to call 911 on their Wi-Fi because there’s no service out here.
[0:17:19 – 0:17:20] AdamSnowLog: I get to their place.
[0:17:20 – 0:17:22] AdamSnowLog: Of course, the Wi-Fi is out because the power is out.
[0:17:23 – 0:17:27] AdamSnowLog: And Natalie’s sister was there, and she had the…
[0:17:28 – 0:17:32] AdamSnowLog: you know, wherewithal to just use the SOS feature on the phone.
[0:17:33 – 0:17:36] AdamSnowLog: And sure enough, she was able to get through, and she was the first one that called it in.
[0:17:36 – 0:17:42] AdamSnowLog: So volunteer fire departments out of Colville and Hovland responded in, like, five minutes.
[0:17:43 – 0:18:04] AdamSnowLog: 13 minutes flat, uh, state troopers up here, they sent an ambulance for some reason, and, uh, they got that thing under control real quick, and, uh, so, you know, crisis averted, and then they had to call in, like, the electrical, Arrowhead Electric had to come up and, like, restring the line, and, well, it was delayed getting home by a good couple hours, but…
[0:18:06 – 0:18:33] AdamSnowLog: What was a very scary situation and really had my heart going for a couple minutes there like turned out to be just perfectly fine and you know the ditch got a little burnt the mailboxes survived and neighbor Tim neighbor Tim’s van almost got scorched but they saved that one too so all good but you know it just reminds you that when you only have 30 some inches of snow and it had been a pretty dry fall before that and
[0:18:34 – 0:18:41] AdamSnowLog: So we’ve gotten some good rain here, you know, in the spring, which has helped get the rest of that snow out of here that we did have.
[0:18:41 – 0:18:48] AdamSnowLog: But yeah, my brother and I were texting about this and he goes, so you think it’s going to be a pretty bad fire season?
[0:18:48 – 0:18:51] AdamSnowLog: I said, yeah, it’s definitely going to be a bad fire season.
[0:18:52 – 0:19:00] AdamSnowLog: So not to be alarmist, you know, we could just get a bunch of rain between now and 4th of July and everything will be fine.
[0:19:00 – 0:19:00] AdamSnowLog: Who knows?
[0:19:00 – 0:19:04] AdamSnowLog: But as right now, it’s pretty dry out there.
[0:19:04 – 0:19:12] AdamSnowLog: So be careful and let’s let’s hope for some more rain because, yeah, I’ve been worried about rain.
[0:19:12 – 0:19:15] AdamSnowLog: I’ve been worried about fires ever since I moved up here and I’ve seen a few.
[0:19:17 – 0:19:18] AdamSnowLog: I’ve never seen one that close.
[0:19:19 – 0:19:43] AdamSnowLog: and uh now I know you know if I never need to get like to 9-1-1 I can just use the SOS feature on my phone and it should go right through but um shout out to the volunteer fire department so they did a great job and uh got to chat with those guys for a little bit and little Pike is like obsessed with fire trucks right now and so we got to get like within a foot of the
[0:19:45 – 0:20:07] AdamSnowLog: uh the local Colville fire engine and he got to see the firefighters all dressed up in their gear I wish in hindsight that had like you know gotten like a photo op with him I’m sure the firefighters would have been pretty excited to do something like that for a little two-year-old um but you know we had the memory he got to see it he was just like wow wow truck
[0:20:08 – 0:20:10] AdamSnowLog: It’s like, yeah, it’s pretty cool.
[0:20:10 – 0:20:16] AdamSnowLog: So, you know, it’s nice to know you got neighbors like that up here that you can count on.
[0:20:16 – 0:20:19] AdamSnowLog: And they were ready because I said it was a red flag warning.
[0:20:19 – 0:20:22] AdamSnowLog: But, yeah, they’re all ready to go.
[0:20:22 – 0:20:24] AdamSnowLog: And got up here real quick, though.
[0:20:24 – 0:20:28] AdamSnowLog: Super impressive with that because we’re kind of in the middle of nowhere.
[0:20:28 – 0:20:31] AdamSnowLog: I mean, those fire stations are not that far away.
[0:20:31 – 0:20:33] AdamSnowLog: But, you know, it’s a volunteer unit.
[0:20:33 – 0:20:36] AdamSnowLog: They’ve still got to go get the truck, get up here.
[0:20:36 – 0:20:36] AdamSnowLog: So, yeah.
[0:20:38 – 0:20:45] AdamSnowLog: Yeah, it was a pretty interesting way to come home from work, though.
[0:20:48 – 0:20:50] AdamSnowLog: So yeah, we had that fire going.
[0:20:50 – 0:21:05] AdamSnowLog: We saw the fire in the sky from the eclipse, and we got one more chapter left to finish Return of the King and the entire Peter Jackson special director’s cut of the Lord of the Rings series, which I just finished watching.
[0:21:07 – 0:21:09] AdamSnowLog: So yeah, that’s the end of the snow log operation.
[0:21:09 – 0:21:11] AdamSnowLog: We’ve got to talk about Lord of the Rings here.
[0:21:12 – 0:21:23] AdamSnowLog: And they’re wrapping up the Battle of Minas Tiroth here and making their way towards the volcano full of fire and lava.
[0:21:24 – 0:21:46] AdamSnowLog: and i can’t help but notice the similarities between the total solar eclipse and the eye of sauron and it’s got to be at least like in some way like based on this phenomenon or is it a phenomenon or an occurrence um anyways they look very similar and um
[0:21:47 – 0:22:02] AdamSnowLog: I can totally see how, having seen the total story clips in person, how people can worship the sun, which I’ve always been a bit of a sun worshiper, but I can totally understand how people make sacrifices to the sun.
[0:22:02 – 0:22:04] AdamSnowLog: After seeing something like that.
[0:22:05 – 0:22:12] AdamSnowLog: And I can see why the entirety of the orc army was like under its control and spell as well.
[0:22:13 – 0:22:18] AdamSnowLog: It is more of a spell binding than just like witnessing something majestic and.
[0:22:20 – 0:22:21] AdamSnowLog: beyond us in nature.
[0:22:22 – 0:22:24] AdamSnowLog: There’s like an extra special power to both these things.
[0:22:25 – 0:22:30] AdamSnowLog: However, I would say the total solar eclipse has brought out the best in everybody around me.
[0:22:30 – 0:22:33] AdamSnowLog: And the opposite seems to be true for the eye.
[0:22:34 – 0:22:37] AdamSnowLog: So the similarities end there.
[0:22:46 – 0:22:48] AdamSnowLog: Old Dusty King, RIP to the Dusty King.
[0:22:49 – 0:22:49] AdamSnowLog: We have a death.
[0:22:50 – 0:22:55] AdamSnowLog: You think you’re allowed for one person on the good guys team to die each movie, basically, at this point?
[0:22:57 – 0:22:58] AdamSnowLog: Theodon has had enough.
[0:22:59 – 0:23:03] AdamSnowLog: He was dusty, then he was vibrant again, and now he’s back to the dust.
[0:23:04 – 0:23:09] AdamSnowLog: My eyes darken, he says, and he takes his leave.
[0:23:10 – 0:23:15] AdamSnowLog: And the army of the dead have fulfilled their oath and are now at peace.
[0:23:16 – 0:23:20] AdamSnowLog: Aragorn, you know, they said, you guys did what you said you’re going to do.
[0:23:20 – 0:23:22] AdamSnowLog: You can get out of here now.
[0:23:22 – 0:23:23] AdamSnowLog: And they whisper off.
[0:23:25 – 0:23:27] AdamSnowLog: Pippin finds Mary trapped underneath an elephant.
[0:23:29 – 0:23:49] AdamSnowLog: um it’s a war elephant and uh and that’s that they’ve they’ve somehow repelled the army at Minas Tirith I didn’t see any way out of that one um but they managed to with a lot of help from an army of the the dead and uh the riders of Rohan and
[0:23:50 – 0:23:51] AdamSnowLog: Some eagles?
[0:23:52 – 0:23:53] AdamSnowLog: What’s going on with these eagles?
[0:23:54 – 0:24:01] AdamSnowLog: Is this the same eagle that Gandalf jumps on, that he sends the moth to go get?
[0:24:02 – 0:24:04] AdamSnowLog: How many eagles does Gandalf have?
[0:24:04 – 0:24:08] AdamSnowLog: Does he have them or are they just buddies?
[0:24:09 – 0:24:13] AdamSnowLog: What’s the arrangement with the eagles and the moth?
[0:24:13 – 0:24:15] AdamSnowLog: The moth speaks eagle too.
[0:24:16 – 0:24:20] AdamSnowLog: Anyways, we cut over to Cocoon Frodo.
[0:24:23 – 0:24:30] AdamSnowLog: The orcs are going a little crazy, and they got Cocoon Frodo all wrapped up, but they’re, like, taking each other out.
[0:24:31 – 0:24:39] AdamSnowLog: And I assumed they were under, like, the spell of the ring or the eye, and they’re turning on one another trying to, like, get at that ring.
[0:24:39 – 0:24:45] AdamSnowLog: But no, Sam storms the tower, and I guess he’s had the ring this entire time.
[0:24:46 – 0:24:49] LOTR: You’ve had this ring the entire time?
[0:24:50 – 0:24:52] AdamSnowLog: Yeah, we’re in the Rockies.
[0:24:54 – 0:25:05] AdamSnowLog: So I don’t know what was going on there, but somehow Sam just waltzes in there and grabs Frodo and stabs a couple orcs with the blue sword and they got the ring and they’re getting on out.
[0:25:05 – 0:25:13] AdamSnowLog: And just when you think they’re out of there with their cool helmets, 10,000 orcs stand between us and Mount Doom.
[0:25:14 – 0:25:18] AdamSnowLog: They get drafted into this orc army anyways that’s going to defend the Blackgate.
[0:25:19 – 0:25:37] AdamSnowLog: and but they like fake a fight against each other to like basically desert the orc they get drafted into and desert the orc army all within like a one one and a half minutes so that’s the way to do it you don’t want to go to the black gate with those guys that’s not going to be good
[0:25:39 – 0:25:47] AdamSnowLog: So they get out of there, and they’re still heading towards Mountain Doom, and there’s a really nice moment because it’s cloudy all the time.
[0:25:47 – 0:25:53] AdamSnowLog: The orcs, the army of the darkness, they always bring the clouds with them, but Sam looks up, and there’s a break in the clouds.
[0:25:54 – 0:25:57] AdamSnowLog: He’s looking at some stars in the daylight.
[0:25:58 – 0:26:00] AdamSnowLog: There is light and beauty up there.
[0:26:00 – 0:26:04] AdamSnowLog: No shadow can touch Sam, you beautiful poet.
[0:26:05 – 0:26:06] AdamSnowLog: We love you.
[0:26:09 – 0:26:16] AdamSnowLog: um yeah the aragorn uh he’s got his new tree outfit on and uh
[0:26:16 – 0:26:40] AdamSnowLog: leader of the men now everybody everybody’s in line and they just uh defended minus tirith and now he’s like you know what we gotta get the eye off frodo we need a diversionary tactic we gotta storm the gate um which is a hell of a plan uh keep the eyes off frodo and uh so in order to like get the attention of the eye he grabs that orb thing
[0:26:42 – 0:26:43] AdamSnowLog: And he looks right into it.
[0:26:43 – 0:26:45] AdamSnowLog: He goes, long have you hunted me.
[0:26:46 – 0:26:47] AdamSnowLog: Long have I eluded you.
[0:26:48 – 0:26:51] AdamSnowLog: And he shows him the shard sword.
[0:26:52 – 0:26:53] AdamSnowLog: He’s like, come on.
[0:26:54 – 0:26:55] AdamSnowLog: I’m coming for you.
[0:26:55 – 0:26:57] AdamSnowLog: So it was a pretty good trick.
[0:26:57 – 0:26:59] AdamSnowLog: They were like, he’s not going to fall for it.
[0:27:00 – 0:27:02] AdamSnowLog: I don’t know, it sure seems like he fell for it.
[0:27:03 – 0:27:11] AdamSnowLog: And I’ll just take this moment to say, like, yeah, we’re never going to get the story on what’s up with Sauron more than what we were given in part one, I guess, you know.
[0:27:13 – 0:27:15] AdamSnowLog: Just wants to be done with all men.
[0:27:15 – 0:27:16] AdamSnowLog: The age of men is over.
[0:27:18 – 0:27:19] AdamSnowLog: But it ain’t.
[0:27:22 – 0:27:29] AdamSnowLog: They send out this crazy smiling freak to come out and kind of taunt the men at first.
[0:27:29 – 0:27:30] AdamSnowLog: And Aragorn’s not having it.
[0:27:30 – 0:27:32] AdamSnowLog: He just lops the head right off.
[0:27:33 – 0:27:34] AdamSnowLog: The Brothers of the West, they’re surrounded.
[0:27:35 – 0:27:39] AdamSnowLog: They open up the gate fully and the orcs just completely encircle them.
[0:27:40 – 0:27:42] AdamSnowLog: And this truly is going to be the final battle here.
[0:27:43 – 0:27:53] AdamSnowLog: So simultaneously, Frodo and Samwise are just like staggering up the mountain and trying to get to the, just got to get to the top.
[0:27:54 – 0:28:01] AdamSnowLog: So these two things are overlapped at this point and you know they’re just going to both either succeed or fail based on if they can get that thing in the volcano.
[0:28:03 – 0:28:07] AdamSnowLog: And the weight is just too much, so they like shed everything.
[0:28:07 – 0:28:12] AdamSnowLog: They’re just back down to basic Shire hobbit gear, and they got the ring and the one sword.
[0:28:12 – 0:28:13] AdamSnowLog: I think that’s all they have left.
[0:28:14 – 0:28:14] AdamSnowLog: They’re out of water.
[0:28:14 – 0:28:15] AdamSnowLog: They don’t got any more bread.
[0:28:17 – 0:28:21] AdamSnowLog: They’re just barefoot staggering up the side of a steaming volcano.
[0:28:22 – 0:28:25] LOTR: Do you remember the taste of strawberries in the Shire?
[0:28:26 – 0:28:26] AdamSnowLog: Hmm.
[0:28:28 – 0:28:30] AdamSnowLog: Yeah, I remember.
[0:28:30 – 0:28:32] AdamSnowLog: I remember the taste of the berries.
[0:28:34 – 0:28:35] AdamSnowLog: Oh, Sam, he’s so good.
[0:28:35 – 0:28:38] AdamSnowLog: I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.
[0:28:38 – 0:28:42] AdamSnowLog: This is like the ultimate labanga maneuver here.
[0:28:43 – 0:28:46] AdamSnowLog: Sam should have had assless chaps on for this section.
[0:28:46 – 0:28:48] AdamSnowLog: He’s doing the final leg of a long portage.
[0:28:48 – 0:28:51] AdamSnowLog: He’s taking the pack and the canoe and his buddy and the ring.
[0:28:52 – 0:28:55] AdamSnowLog: He’s going right through the volcano barefoot.
[0:28:55 – 0:28:57] AdamSnowLog: This guy’s hardcore.
[0:28:58 – 0:29:02] AdamSnowLog: If I ever in the series ever made fun of Sam, I’d take it back.
[0:29:03 – 0:29:03] AdamSnowLog: He’s a gem.
[0:29:05 – 0:29:05] AdamSnowLog: A true gem.
[0:29:07 – 0:29:18] AdamSnowLog: And they get to the top and, you know, he’s about to, he gets to the spot where Izulder failed and he’s about to drop it.
[0:29:18 – 0:29:19] AdamSnowLog: He’s like, just drop it.
[0:29:20 – 0:29:21] LOTR: Throw it in.
[0:29:23 – 0:29:23] AdamSnowLog: And he can’t do it.
[0:29:24 – 0:29:25] AdamSnowLog: He just can’t get himself to do it.
[0:29:25 – 0:29:26] AdamSnowLog: No.
[0:29:26 – 0:29:27] AdamSnowLog: The ring is mine.
[0:29:27 – 0:29:29] AdamSnowLog: It gets him at the last second.
[0:29:30 – 0:29:35] AdamSnowLog: And all of a sudden, little Gollum Smeagol shows up.
[0:29:37 – 0:29:39] AdamSnowLog: And it’s on.
[0:29:39 – 0:29:40] AdamSnowLog: They’re going to battle for this thing.
[0:29:41 – 0:29:42] AdamSnowLog: He literally just bites.
[0:29:43 – 0:29:50] AdamSnowLog: So now in this movie series, we’ve seen the ring get chopped straight off dude’s hand in the very beginning.
[0:29:51 – 0:29:56] AdamSnowLog: And now Smeagol just bites the ring finger right off of Frodo.
[0:29:57 – 0:29:57] AdamSnowLog: Yikes.
[0:29:59 – 0:30:00] AdamSnowLog: And he gets the precious.
[0:30:01 – 0:30:07] AdamSnowLog: And, you know, Frodo points out, you swore on the precious to help us.
[0:30:08 – 0:30:10] LOTR: But Smeagol lied.
[0:30:12 – 0:30:20] AdamSnowLog: Yeah, they’re still battling out at the gates.
[0:30:20 – 0:30:22] LOTR: For Frodo!
[0:30:23 – 0:30:24] AdamSnowLog: You got the whole army chanting for Frodo.
[0:30:25 – 0:30:33] AdamSnowLog: And just when you think it’s really looking bleak, these eagles show up and just hand it to the Nazgul dragons.
[0:30:33 – 0:30:34] AdamSnowLog: Like, no problem.
[0:30:34 – 0:30:34] AdamSnowLog: Giant eagles.
[0:30:37 – 0:30:38] AdamSnowLog: I don’t know.
[0:30:38 – 0:30:42] AdamSnowLog: I would think that the dragons would probably put up a better fight against some eagles.
[0:30:42 – 0:30:48] AdamSnowLog: They’re definitely not as big as the dragons, but they got some Gandalf power going on with those eagles.
[0:30:48 – 0:30:49] AdamSnowLog: Got a little extra magic.
[0:30:50 – 0:30:52] AdamSnowLog: We got some magic talons there.
[0:30:53 – 0:31:15] AdamSnowLog: Um, yeah, but anyways, Frodo tackles him and just like, uh, earlier when he ends up tackling him and whips him off the side of the cliff, like this time he’s just whips him straight in the volcano with the ring and he like lands in there and until the very end, he’s holding the ring up above the lava as he sinks into it and burns up.
[0:31:18 – 0:31:18] AdamSnowLog: A little creep.
[0:31:19 – 0:31:20] LOTR: You little creep.
[0:31:22 – 0:31:24] AdamSnowLog: And the ring sort of floats there for a little bit.
[0:31:25 – 0:31:28] AdamSnowLog: And Frodo’s hanging on for dear life with his one finger missing.
[0:31:28 – 0:31:29] AdamSnowLog: And I don’t know.
[0:31:29 – 0:31:30] AdamSnowLog: I wasn’t sure at this point.
[0:31:30 – 0:31:35] AdamSnowLog: Like, is he going to fall and, like, go down with the ring?
[0:31:36 – 0:31:53] AdamSnowLog: and Smeagol, and of course not, or Diddy, Sam grabs them and pulls them up, and they somehow get out of there, even though the whole, you know, the eye tower like explodes, Mount Doom appears to be detonating,
[0:31:54 – 0:32:17] AdamSnowLog: and uh but they like climb out on a little rock precipice and a really nice vista out there in mountain doom and just sort of hang out until the eagles showed up and snatch them up and get them out there just in the nick of time so it wasn’t looking good for those guys but uh they did make it i guess uh the way the light was after that and you’re like is this a dream state
[0:32:18 – 0:32:19] AdamSnowLog: Is he in heaven now?
[0:32:22 – 0:32:24] AdamSnowLog: No, I guess they actually lived.
[0:32:24 – 0:32:29] AdamSnowLog: Like I said, they’re not allowed to kill off that many people.
[0:32:29 – 0:32:30] AdamSnowLog: It’s PG-13.
[0:32:30 – 0:32:33] AdamSnowLog: So yeah, they all lived.
[0:32:34 – 0:32:35] AdamSnowLog: The ring’s been destroyed.
[0:32:36 – 0:32:38] AdamSnowLog: The orc army’s defeated.
[0:32:38 – 0:32:39] AdamSnowLog: Sauron’s
[0:32:40 – 0:33:00] AdamSnowLog: never coming back ever that one’s it’s all over and the fourth age of men has begun under uh king aragorn and uh the tree’s got the flowers on it and you know it’s like a half hour of happy ending at this point like just like really touching moments
[0:33:05 – 0:33:09] AdamSnowLog: I was sure this was a dream, though, but, you know, I guess it’s not.
[0:33:09 – 0:33:13] AdamSnowLog: The whole fellowship is reunited in the hospital room or whatever they’re in.
[0:33:14 – 0:33:17] AdamSnowLog: They’re all back, you know, other than Boromir, you know, RIP Boromir.
[0:33:17 – 0:33:21] AdamSnowLog: But everybody else made it out of the whole fellowship.
[0:33:21 – 0:33:21] AdamSnowLog: Ridiculous.
[0:33:22 – 0:33:24] AdamSnowLog: Oh, boy, they got some stories to tell.
[0:33:26 – 0:33:30] AdamSnowLog: I’m glad to be here with you, here at the end of all things.
[0:33:33 – 0:33:35] AdamSnowLog: Yeah, it was a pretty good story.
[0:33:35 – 0:33:37] AdamSnowLog: So I’m really glad I watched it.
[0:33:42 – 0:34:06] AdamSnowLog: yeah i mean it’s about what i expected uh and then so much more like the level of details here in in the extended cut was pretty incredible and uh really awesome so um there’s a lot of good camping involved there are some boats uh amazing horse um great creatures great monsters great special effects you know 2001 2002 2003 these came out
[0:34:09 – 0:34:28] AdamSnowLog: and uh yeah just uh when they came out like excellent they really do stand the test of time it’s been 20 years and subsequently if i live to be another 20 years from now i’ll be able to drive to another total eclipse i’m i’m not going to be i can’t afford to be flying to total eclipses but
[0:34:29 – 0:34:50] AdamSnowLog: anybody listening to this I would highly recommend it and yeah lived in 2044 I can go to Calgary and then 2045 anywhere between California and Florida will get one so anybody listening to this now you just gotta live 20 21 more years and make sure you make sure you get there and get a spot with no clouds because
[0:34:52 – 0:35:07] AdamSnowLog: You know, when you put it that way, like it feels like a long time since these movies came out, uh, 20 years now, but, um, you know, it feels like 20 more years to get to the next solar eclipse is a long time, but it really isn’t, you know, it’ll go by real quick.
[0:35:07 – 0:35:11] AdamSnowLog: So glad to be here with you here at the end of all things.
[0:35:13 – 0:35:36] AdamSnowLog: uh yeah i don’t know it’s a little sad to have the story end isn’t it you know you want you want there to be more and i know i said i was like there’s no way i’m watching the hobbit movies there’s three of them too and that amazon series no well lord of the rings universe is blown up at this point i don’t know if i’ll ever be able to catch it all but i am kind of curious like some more backstory on this so
[0:35:37 – 0:35:39] AdamSnowLog: I might end up watching the Hobbits.
[0:35:39 – 0:35:40] AdamSnowLog: I think I more than likely will.
[0:35:41 – 0:35:43] AdamSnowLog: At least got to start on them and see how they go.
[0:35:43 – 0:35:52] AdamSnowLog: I want to give a shout out and I will put the playlist for Snowlog 24.
[0:35:53 – 0:35:55] AdamSnowLog: I’ll post a link to it in the subreddit.
[0:35:56 – 0:35:59] AdamSnowLog: I’ve got it all organized in the order that they were played.
[0:36:00 – 0:36:08] AdamSnowLog: But, yeah, again, once again, started the show with The Avalanches from their masterpiece, 2001 album, Since I Left You.
[0:36:11 – 0:36:14] AdamSnowLog: And a big shout-out to all the outro music.
[0:36:14 – 0:36:19] AdamSnowLog: We used Bits and Hits, Chill Astronaut, Jembe, and Tanoshi.
[0:36:19 – 0:36:21] AdamSnowLog: Of course, shout-out to The Avalanches.
[0:36:21 – 0:36:27] AdamSnowLog: So, yeah, I’ll put the playlist in the subreddit, and if anyone wants to check it out,
[0:36:29 – 0:36:48] AdamSnowLog: got them all in the proper order and I think they all fit together pretty nice considering the Avalanche just came out back when these films came out but yeah the like chiptune Lord of the Rings music I was able to like find and use for this series was really a real delight.
[0:36:50 – 0:37:02] AdamSnowLog: The crocus is, I was kind of waiting around like the snow’s been melted and it has been pretty nice and the river out back is roaring and the lakes are mostly open and I have not seen a loon yet.
[0:37:02 – 0:37:09] AdamSnowLog: I thought I maybe did flying over Lake Superior the other day but I’m pretty sure it was just a fast raven.
[0:37:10 – 0:37:17] AdamSnowLog: But it’s all, all the signs are there that you know spring is upon us and the open water season’s just around the corner here for everybody.
[0:37:19 – 0:37:39] AdamSnowLog: um but yeah i was kind of waiting on that crocus in the yard to bloom because last year it lined up pretty perfectly with like as soon as the snow kind of finally melted and this was in may last year but then that crocus just bloomed right away so i was like we got back from the eclipse and most of the snow in the yard was gone at that point including the spot where the crocus is
[0:37:40 – 0:37:42] AdamSnowLog: And the rest of it soon melted after there.
[0:37:42 – 0:37:45] AdamSnowLog: So I was like, okay, any day now I’m going to see that crocus.
[0:37:45 – 0:37:49] AdamSnowLog: But like I said, it snowed again last night and like the puddles in the driveway have still been freezing.
[0:37:49 – 0:37:52] AdamSnowLog: So still getting cold at night and I think we’re still a ways off on the crocus.
[0:37:52 – 0:37:56] AdamSnowLog: So that this season will not be the final form of snow.
[0:37:58 – 0:37:59] AdamSnowLog: Maybe it was the eclipse.
[0:37:59 – 0:38:01] AdamSnowLog: Maybe it was the tendrils of the sun.
[0:38:03 – 0:38:06] AdamSnowLog: Maybe it was the memories we made along the way.
[0:38:07 – 0:38:11] AdamSnowLog: But it has been a pleasure once again to tell you the story this winter.
[0:38:12 – 0:38:13] AdamSnowLog: Thank you all for listening.
[0:38:14 – 0:38:16] AdamSnowLog: Remember, friends, snow takes many forms.
[0:38:17 – 0:38:18] AdamSnowLog: Au revoir.
[0:38:26 – 0:38:28] LOTR: It’s done.
[0:38:28 – 0:38:29] SPEAKER_02: Yes, Mr. Farrow.
[0:38:29 – 0:38:31] SPEAKER_02: It’s over now.
