October 13, 2021

Forest Service Cam offline since 6/24/21

Oct 13(Wed)

Cloudy, fog, patchy drizzle early, then partly Cloudy

Bittinger 2nw Valley

overall theme, really area wide is- maple areas have peaked, brief, not as vibrant as last year, with exceptions of nice spots. Maples give the best vibrance, with them gone, the birches currently hold great color. Not a widespread dominant species, more in the cooler stream, river bottoms. Beaches have some rusty color, as well as some drop. Aspen, not widespread had good color in Bigtooth, but quaking is lagging and that was the opposite last year as it dropped first. Likely due to being more cold sensitive. Lots of hillsides dominated by oak, and those in large have a green with a bit of brown and a brownish yellow tinge.

Rock Lodge Rd near The Glades afternoon 10/13/21

Rock Lodge Rd near The north branch of the Cassleman 10/13/21

to Bittinger 2nw Valley afternoon 10/13/21

Bittinger 2nw Valley afternoon experimental spot 10/13/21

The moon from west of Bittinger evening 10/13/21

Garrett County Airport

Hillsides in large Oak dominated..lots of green. Mix in maple there is some color, also some bare maples, birch areas have good color, not a widespread dominate species. But in areas they are in abundant, and mixed with maples yet holding, there are nice color pockets..Cherry is mostly bare, with some spotty green, yellow/red…

State Park Rd by cherry creek…more birch in the mix peaking

Comparison to last year

Canaan Heights/Davis 3SE

Comparison to last year

Comments and data by Dave Lesher at:-

http://data.canaanmtnsnow.com/

back to the bog

foliage way past its prime….maple nearly done

Climate Reference Network Canaan

back the state park

The birches are peaking with their bright golden yellow. The maples, while lots of fell already, there are pockets of good color. Pockets of completely bare areas. The beech are doing what beech does, the golden rusty colors, with some holding green.

the birches are the best color currently

Comparison to last year

Cabin Mt at Bald Knob

Colors across the top are well past prime. Just last week the birch on the north side of Weiss had a ways to go for good color, this week, most are down. There are patches of good maple color. Again, a case of bare and spotty nice areas.. the hillside walking up had a few superb spots. That still doesn’t outweigh the bare and thinned trees.

one of the patchy great color spots. As well as the 2 pics below, same spot

North Weiss knob dropped the birch in a rapid fashion…more in following pics

progression

Comparison to the spectacular season last year

Cabin Mt-Western Sods

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October 13, 2021

Spruce Knob

Canaan Valley Refuge

Petersburg Grant County Airport

Dy007-Canaan Valley Refuge 3150′, Dy002-Cabin Mt at Bald Knob 4350′, Dy003-Cabin Mt-Western Sods 4035′, Dy004-Spruce Knob 4820′, Cvpw2-Climate Reference Network Canaan 3479′, KW99-Petersburg Grant County Airport 961′, K2G4 Garrett County Airport 2933′, KCBE Cumberland Airport 774′