Look at a piece of property I bought in Moscow. Im told this photo was taken last january.
Posted on 01/19/2026 9:45:00 AM PST by lowbridge
Record snowfall buries buildings and towns in Russia’s Kamchatka.
I promise to never complain about 6 inches of snow in New York again.
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Growing up getting 6 feet overnight was common. The biggest storm I remember we got 27 feet in a week. BUT. We were use to it and the town was always prepared. After all. The ski areas had lots of money to make keeping the roads closed.
I'd imagine the Russians might not take too kindly to part of their country being "annexed".
Super pretty place, full of bears and volcanoes.
One of the interesting “what ifs”, if we had closer relations with Japan in the 1920s, when it was still a democracy and the militants hadn’t yet taken over Japan.
It might have worked out for the best, in that Imperial Japan would have kept the Soviets in check, and would have avoided the rise of Communist China.
They were an ally during WWI, and one of the reasons they went rogue, was they felt they didn’t get enough of the spoils from being on “the winning team.”
My son found an old large print of Kamchatka...remembered it from Risk...It’s nicely framed and very cool.
You mean 78?
My son found an old large print of Kamchatka...remembered it from Risk
Kamchatka is game to you?
Always a good acquisition in Risk.
And many mountains here in western US have hardly any snow
Global arming at work again, and in Florida and deep South Georgia for the second winter in a row, a first!
Kamchatka is an awesome place, gorgeous, full of wildlife and no one lives there. There is a submarine base and city where the river meets the sea. Fishers, guides and camp managers are flown in and out by helicopter, there are no roads. The Zhupanova is open 12 weeks a year for guided fishing, 72 people a year get to fish the river and its tributaries. Bears are all over the place, the guides carry 12-gauge shotguns with birdshot (to scare), and slugs (if there is a “problem”). The river is the ancestral home of Rainbow trout, and on the six-day fishing trip I took the largest caught was 34 inches. That was in the lower river where you fish from jet boats and return to a lodge each evening. We floated about 55 miles down the upper portion in rafts for 6 days, my largest Rainbow was a 29 inch, also caught a Russian relative of brook trout called a Cunja that measured 31 in, estimated at 20 pounds. Took about 15 minutes to land it on a 7wt fly rod with a 15-pound tippet. All Rainbows are released, barbless hooks required. Dolly Varden are caught for some dinners. You can google it and see a lot of videos, including one I am in shot for Ted Nugent’s Spirit of the Wild Show.
Think of all the fuel we will save when the Northwest Passage is open YEAR ROUND!!
That’s global warming for you!
Look at a piece of property I bought in Moscow. Im told this photo was taken last january.
Dr. Zhivago is a documentary.
I’ve been interlodged at Alta, UT several times when I was a ski instructor there. We thought it was crazy snow when it got like that at the lodges, that were two stories. This holy cow. I’d be skiing it.
All right you guys, no more complaining about that 8” sprinkle of snow!
Paging Arnold Rimmer...
All things considered, it was a mere flesh wound!
I LOVE snow - it’s the sub-zero temps with little snow that we’re having right now that are p*ssing me off!
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