Check your math on the soak time, because 7am to bedtime the next night is way past 24 hours. If you made the jar Tuesday night and ate it Wednesday morning, that is more like 8 or 9 hours, not a full day. This matters for your gummy question, since oats left three days in the fridge will get pasty no matter what you add. Keep the soak to overnight and stir in crunchy stuff like nuts or seeds right before you eat, and they hold up fine.

Wow, I read somewhere that the snow line basically follows the elevation, so those hills up north make all the difference.

Four pages a MONTH @robert_smith36? That's wild, I can barely do one.