Quote Originally Posted by BillyGr View Post
Even the tiny ones when it comes to Maine. We were up there around this time of April a few years ago, camping in a campground right off Route 1 around Wells and hiking on Mt. Agamenticus (which barely qualifies as a mountain) and had rain showers that turned to sleet and by the time we got back to the campground everything had a light coating of white on it. Okay, more like a heavy but thin coating of white, since it was that mixture that sticks to everything and weighs quite a bit while being a fairly thin layer (the stuff that takes down branches easily).
That would be an embarrassing mountain to freeze to death on in April

It really makes the point though; A wet, mild cold will kill you much faster than sub zero temps where you can keep dry. I love to do multi night trips in the deep cold, but 25-40 with rain scares the heck out of me. That is skip the trip and stay home weather for me.