I wonder if there's snow on Mt. Diablo.

@TheHorse (220616)

Walnut Creek, California

November 8, 2022 4:02pm CST

Mt. Diablo is "our mountain." It rises almost 4000 feet above Walnut Creek, where I live. Actually, its elevation is only about 3850, and I'm at maybe 300 feet, but you get the idea. When it's rainy and cold down here on the flats, where coyotes rarely roam, it can be snowing up there. This morning, it was in the mid-40s F here, with pretty steady showers, meaning it might have been cold (and wet) enough for snow up there. The rain has stopped, but the mountain still has not lifted her skirts (a pretty obscure literary/musical reference--I'll link it for @FourWalls if she doesn't recognize it), so I don't know if there's snow up there or not. I'll attach a photo (if I can find it) of one of my kid clients with me on a Winter hike a few years back. He had never seen snow before. Are there MyLotters who have never been in the snow? That just occurred to me.

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@koopharper (7601)

• Canada

8 Nov 22

I like how you put "our mountain" in quotation marks. Our nearest mountains are the Cobequid Mountains (some say hills). The tallest peak is a whopping 1198 ft and it is so impressive no one ever bothered to name it. One thing that is pretty much guaranteed here is that if there is snow on the mountains it's in the valleys too.

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@BarBaraPrz (47761)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

9 Nov 22

When I lived in Hamilton, I lived "on the mountain"... the Niagara Escarpment divides 'The Hammer' into upper and lower city.

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@koopharper (7601)

• Canada

9 Nov 22

@BarBaraPrz I'm originally from the little town of Fenwick. I know the Niagara Escarpment well. My parents used to be members of the Bruce Trail Club and the Ticats are still my favourite CFL team.

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@TheHorse (220616)

• Walnut Creek, California

8 Nov 22

Heh. A bit different from here.

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@Happy2BeMe (99380)

• Canada

8 Nov 22

What an adorable picture.

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@TheHorse (220616)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Nov 22

He was a sweet kid. I hope he is doing well.

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@DaddyEvil (137860)

• United States

9 Nov 22

Does it ever snow at your elevation? I'd be more than happy to let you come and shovel my driveway when we get a couple of feet of snow here, pony.

I hope you've been enjoying your day today.

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@DaddyEvil (137860)

• United States

9 Nov 22

I don't mind mowing the yard or vacuuming but I don't want to shovel snow. It's too cold... And now, I don't have to shovel snow anymore.

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@TheHorse (220616)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Nov 22

It doesn't snow at this elevation here. At least not in my experience. I actually enjoy shoveling snow. It's that same odd pleasure I get from mowing the lawn and vacuuming.

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@TheHorse (220616)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Nov 22

@DaddyEvil You don't?

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@wolfgirl569 (108649)

• Marion, Ohio

9 Nov 22

I would be happy to never deal with it again.

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@wolfgirl569 (108649)

• Marion, Ohio

9 Nov 22

@TheHorse I see it every year. Over it

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@TheHorse (220616)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Nov 22

@wolfgirl569 You see it for several months.

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@TheHorse (220616)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Nov 22

I'd enjoy it...for about two weeks.

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@RubyHawk (99405)

• Atlanta, Georgia

9 Nov 22

We usually have a couple of light snows each winter and occasionally a huge snow of three feet.

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@TheHorse (220616)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Nov 22

It snowed one Winter when I was visiting friends in Atlanta.

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@TheHorse (220616)

• Walnut Creek, California

11 Nov 22

@RubyHawk I don't remember any "drama." But then again I wasn't paying any attention.

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@RubyHawk (99405)

• Atlanta, Georgia

11 Nov 22

@TheHorse A few years ago we had a big snow storm. Traffic was left sitting on the road. Buses couldn't get out to bring school kids home. That might have been when you were here.

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@LindaOHio (182533)

• United States

9 Nov 22

Cute picture. I've had my share of s**w, thank you. Did I tell you the story about our trip to the Timberline Lodge? Hot and sunny down below...s**wing on the mountain!

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@TheHorse (220616)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Nov 22

Heh. It rings a bell. Do tell again. Wait, if it was in the Northwest, I remember it well. You didn't stay overnight. "Here's Johnny"?

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@TheHorse (220616)

• Walnut Creek, California

11 Nov 22

@LindaOHio Interesting information! Do they tell you where the "inside" scenes were filmed?

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@LindaOHio (182533)

• United States

10 Nov 22

@TheHorse That's right. The inside of the lodge wasn't anything like the movie. Another hotel was used for that. It was actually very cramped inside.

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@GardenGerty (161080)

• United States

9 Nov 22

There are probably quite a few who have never seen snow. However, I have seen snow and I did not have to go up the mountain to do so.

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@TheHorse (220616)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Nov 22

I just checked today at about Noon. Didn't see any snow up there.

@BarBaraPrz (47761)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

9 Nov 22

No snow here yet, 10°C/50°F and sunny.

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@BarBaraPrz (47761)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

9 Nov 22

@TheHorse Currently 17°C/63°F.

@TheHorse (220616)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Nov 22

Sounds like a good day for some football catch.

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@kaylachan (72206)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

8 Nov 22

I have been told there have been flurries here and there over the years, but I don't think I've ever seen real snow.

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@TheHorse (220616)

• Walnut Creek, California

8 Nov 22

I have been "chilly" in Florida in the Winter. But I've never seen snow there. But I did see snow in Atlanta GA.

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@kaylachan (72206)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

8 Nov 22

@TheHorse I hear snow is more common around the panhandle. So, I don't really know. I have been told a few times it's flurried here where I live for a couple hours. It's so rare, some of us just stop and stare.

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@TheHorse (220616)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Nov 22

@kaylachan I would stop and stare if it snowed here at my house.

@FourWalls (69320)

• United States

9 Nov 22

No, I don’t know that line. I heard there’s blizzard watches out up north of you, which will no doubt affect your crop of dental floss in Montana.

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@FourWalls (69320)

• United States

9 Nov 22

@TheHorse — I know who Bryan is. There’s a story in the Steve Goodman biography how he heard Bryan’s recording of “Walking in Jerusalem” and said “it needs a third vocal,” so Steve paid for the session to put the third vocal on the song.

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@TheHorse (220616)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Nov 22

I'll have to check in with my buddy up there in Montana. Here's the song. It's about Seattle. I lived there for one year and met this guy in a bar. But I already knew his music He was really chill to talk to.

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@TheHorse (220616)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Nov 22

@FourWalls I hadn't heard that! Somewhere on my computer is a version of me doing all three parts on that song. I was drunk. I have actually performed that song several times. Like Vanny's maids, good harmony vocalists are so hard to find.

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@LadyDuck (472213)

• Switzerland

9 Nov 22

I have seen the top of the mountains white when we went out grocery shopping yesterday. I have seen the snow since I was born, it snowed when I was born (it was the month of February in Milan).

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@LadyDuck (472213)

• Switzerland

10 Nov 22

@TheHorse OH YES! When I interact with Indian users many of them tell me they have never seen the snow, also those from Philippines.

@TheHorse (220616)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Nov 22

I wonder if we have friends from India or Africa who have never been in the snow.

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@JudyEv (342448)

• Rockingham, Australia

9 Nov 22

We've only seen snow a very few times. I'd still be wide-eyed if I came across snow.

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@TheHorse (220616)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Nov 22

Have you spent time in deep snow?

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@JudyEv (342448)

• Rockingham, Australia

9 Nov 22

@TheHorse No, never. After being on myLot for a couple of your winters, I have lost all appetite for living where there is a lot of snow!! lol

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@Deepizzaguy (104538)

• Lake Charles, Louisiana

9 Nov 22

It snows in south Louisiana around once every four years.

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@TheHorse (220616)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Nov 22

The folks there must enjoy it, knowing that it will be gone within a few days.

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@Deepizzaguy (104538)

• Lake Charles, Louisiana

9 Nov 22

@TheHorse We all enjoyed seeing the snow on the ground as well as seeing the snow falling from the sky.

@kobesbuddy (78871)

• East Tawas, Michigan

8 Nov 22

What a sweet picture, he was happy to see snow for the first time! Myself, I've lived in Michigan for 71 years. Snow is as common as 'dirt' in this state! We have snow about five months out of the year.

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@TheHorse (220616)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Nov 22

I remember the Midwest well.

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@kobesbuddy (78871)

• East Tawas, Michigan

9 Nov 22

@TheHorse Snow is promised, every year.

@Jenaisle (14078)

• Philippines

8 Nov 22

I smiled at how you referred to the mountain. All the while, I thought you lived by the seaside.

. There's no snow all year round in our country. But I once saw snow on one of my vacations in the U.S. because my relative purposely brought me to Snowy Peak, just so I could touch and roll in the snow.

It was not what I expected, Snow was just like the shaved ice they use in our halo-halo here. Shaved ice and lots of sweet ingredients. I had thought it would be hard as stone, but it was not.

Not disappointed though. I lived it.

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@TheHorse (220616)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Nov 22

I live close enough to the Coast that it never gets really cold here. But I have to drive 30 or so miles if I want to sit and stare at the Pacific Ocean.

@RasmaSandra (81006)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

8 Nov 22

I miss snow after five years in Florida. You know that mountain Diablo always made me picture it like the devil with two horns

@Gnana_Helps (713)

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9 Nov 22

No, I never saw snow before. To see snow we have to go to the northern most part of India called Himalayas.

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@TheHorse (220616)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Nov 22

That's what I think of when I think of Northeastern India.

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@SipLAH11 (120)

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9 Nov 22

It's very nice to be able to join for this

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@TheHorse (220616)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Nov 22

What are you referring to?