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May 19, Tuesday, Cold Knob webcam. Clear evidence of different rates of leaf-out with increased elevation. Cold Mountain is in the Balsam Mtn range SE of the GRSM and is over 5K feet. Climate textbooks often explain that climbing mountains here is compara - May 19, Tuesday, Cold Knob webcam. Clear evidence of different rates of leaf-out with increased elevation. Cold Mountain is in the Balsam Mtn range SE of the GRSM and is over 5K feet. Climate textbooks often explain that climbing mountains here is comparable to moving hundreds of miles to the north. This is not entirely correct, since the sun is always higher in the sky here compared to latitudes closer to the poles. There's a more rapid heating and cooling condition here and you can almost watch leaf-out line climb up the mountain.