Joe, We were up there last night until about 3:30 am. The temperature never got lower than 14, and there was no hint of snow. HOWEVER.... we did have a couple of visitors that really worried us for a bit. As we were unloading the trailer when we first got there, the whinnying of the horses in the field across the road seemed pretty loud. Then the clip-clop of the hooves got quite loud. Suddenly, about 20 feet away, two very large (at least 15 feet high!:)) horses came out of the shadows at us. (okay, maybe they were just average size horses, but for a minute there, they seemed huge and scary.) My best hand waving and shouts of "Git!" did nothing to dissuade them from their desire to see what we were about. We could not get them to move more than 10 feet away, and every time we turned our backs, they moved right in, peering over our shoulders. All I can think is that our trailer must have looked like their trailer, and they clearly wanted in. They were very friendly, and I suspect that if we had a saddle with us, we could have gone for a ride. After a few minutes of checking out our trailer, and seeing that no new friends awaited them inside, and they were not going to be invited in, they finally allowed themselves to be shooed away. Of course, they made me chase them with a light and yell the whole way, stopping and looking at me every time I quit, as though to let me know that they were making the rules for this game, and it required that I make a really big fool of myself.... They left us alone for the rest of the night, but I must admit we hesitated about getting the scopes and binoculars out. They were big enough to do a lot of inadvertent damage, and I have no question that they would have wanted a glimpse of the horsehead nebula, if they came back. About 3:15, I began to get an uneasy feeling. I could hear something moving about in the bushes, but none of the tell-tale noises of the horses. I finally got out the weak white light, and was completely unnerved to see two eyes looking at me, from a height of at least 5 feet. The light was not powerful enough to see what was behind the eyes, just them. Then the eyes swung down to 2 feet, back up, and started moving. I yelled at Allen to get the big light, but even that did not make it clear what was out there. Only after the animal moved a bit closer, and was joined by a second pair of eyes, did we realize that it was a return visit from our earlier friends. Once again they insisted on being chased on their terms. At that point, we decided to pack up and head home. All in all, a delightful, if adrenalin filled, night. Be forewarned, apparently the resident horses up there have both advance warning and stealth modes of operation... And they like to get a rise out of observers!