I live in Northern Arizona, grew up in Vermont. I miss northern New England, but I am quite happy here. You'll definitely be able to get your fill of snow most years visiting the mountains of Northern Arizona.

I refused to go on any hikes with him for about 5 years, and then I was leading a short hike up Boynton Canyon and I allowed him to come, and he was an aggressive A'hole, and ended up trying to get people, many of whom were inexperienced hikers, to go off trail and bushwack on the way back out. Second and last time I ever did anything with him.

Yeah

Frankly, no. I was at the front of the group most of the way, so I just wasn't paying attention. Once we got to the trailhead in Oak Creek then a couple of us sat down, waited and started counting people. Once everyone was supposedly there those of us counting realized we were missing one person, and I had been talking with the guy at the start of the trip so I knew who was missing. After the trip leader said he couldn't wait around one of the other drivers, myself and another guy or two volunteered to wait.

The town I live in here in AZ just had our 3rd snowiest January on record at 61.4 inches of snow, it really looked like a fairytale a week or two ago.

Yeah it does, though I was driving with my dad across country from Arizona once and we were like what is up with these rivers, they have water in them.

I did that hike whfrom the top down when I was 18, it was a bit of a cluster fuck as we got a very late start considering the mileage and terrain involved. The guy leading the trip didn't pay attention to where everyone was and one guy got so far behind he turned around and headed back to where the cars were parked where we started the hike hoping he would get there before the AR owners were dropped off at them. Unfortunately he went up the wrong side Canyon and got rimmed out. Those of us who were in the car that was he was supposed to be in were waiting at the Oak Creek end for him and we had no idea this was happening. We waited a couple hours before calling Yavapai Sheriff department, and then I volunteered to go with search and rescue back up the canyon to try and find him. He was finally found alive by a helicopter the next evening. I was totally disgusted by the trip leader. I did learn to always know where people were and hike at the back of any group if I had concerns about people.

Well, I have over 3200 like songs from Jimmy Buffet to Tool and from Miles Davis to Billy Strings, so I can literally just play my own liked songs for a pretty much a whole month at work and never hear the same song twice. (unless I put it on shuffle 🙄).

I have also made playlists that last for 8 hours or more. Or I could queue up several shorter playlists at the start of the day, and they'd play throughout the day.

Playlist radios, enhancing playlists, Spotify playlists, radios based on a single song choice. If you're feeling adventurous look for playlists made by other listeners that would last all day.

My work days are too variable and filled with interruptions so I don't ever try to set and let something play. But on the weekends I'll select a playlist or a group of albums to play and just let it go all day.

For instance today I queued up a couple Trip-hop playlists along with a funk/soul mix and we just had that on in the background from noon until 9:00 PM with family and friends over. Only paused it when we were doing video calls with our grown kids who couldn't be here.

I hope this gave you a few ideas for how to listen to Spotify all day.

This comment right here convinces me to give it a try.

Same, Spotify gives me mood based playlists, genre, ones, specific artist mixes, and the song and artist radios change regularly.

How could anyone get tired of that view. It is gorgeous.

Flagstaff can go from freezing Temps at night in early June to highs in the mid 90's in late June. (night time lows can still be in the upper 40's to low 50's) Up until the last 10 years residential properties with AC were almost unheard of.

Flagstaff has never reached 100 degrees. The temp differential is huge during the drier atmospheric times though mid 30's to 80 might be about the extent of the diurnal swing.

Edit: a residential area just outside of the town limits at a slightly lower elevation and down slope from the mountains will hit the very low 100's on the hottest days. It is where 2 large forest fires hit earlier this year. 100°, and windy at 6,800 feet elevation is not comfortable.