Spruce Knob Edition May 22-23 2025

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Spruce Knob Edition May 22-23 2025

Spruce Knob, the West Virginia highpoint at 4863′. Maxing out at 44.9 and 39.1 the last 2 days.

●Driving up during the evening of May 22nd. Temperatures near 50 at Riverton and in the upper 30s once I reached the top of Spruce Knob.

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Heading around Whispering Spruce Trail
No view from the east overlook on top with the fog and drizzle
Winds were whipping on the west side
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●May 23, 2025

Sleeping at Spruce Knob overnight. Showers, fog persisted along with strong gusty west winds. Beyond midnight, a gradual mixing of ice pellets began to occur as on and off pockets of precipitation passed through.

Starting out the day with a walk around The Whispering Spruce Trail

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Temps were running around 34°, with gusty winds

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●Ice pellets and also some softer white snowl Iike pellets.

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The fog and wind continued across the top

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Starting down the west side on top. The low cloud deck was showing some breaks.

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A short timelapse of the cloud deck rolling by

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Down the east side

-East overlook
-East overlook
Looking back up top from the east side
Mt.Laurel in bloom towards the bottom
The Gateway on a Friday mid morning

●The Plants on top around The Whispering Spruce Trail

Red Maple with new spring leaves forming
Young Goldenrod
Pink Azalea not quite in bloom
A few almost in bloom. They were blooming further down the east side
Red Elderberry
Cladoniaceae/lichen/Reindeer Moss
Black Huckleberry
Ditto as above
Red Spruce Bloom
Skunk Currant
Wild sarsaparilla
Birch
Big Tooth Aspen

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