[pct-l] Snow

[Reinhold Metzger]

Yes,
And don't tell the "Ski Bums" we are getting to much snow.
Ski Bums love snow.....the more the better.
The good news....it's been snowing at Mammoth the last couple of day and 
is way above average.
The bad news......I can't go.....Karen (my wife) is recovering from knee 
surgery (2 days ago) to repair injury she suffered on our last ski 
trip.......her ski season is over for the year.
My skiing buddies are going again.....''without me''....BUMMER.

I say.........''LET  IT  SNOW''.........THE  SKI  SEASON  AIN'T  OVER  
YET.........besides, my hiking season has not started yet.

Hikers, that are nervous about the snow,  perhaps should not go, or take 
Ned's  snow course before they go.


JMT Reinhold
Yeeeeehaaa......your ski bumming trail companion
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AsABat wrote:
And, we're not really getting that much snow. Statewide we're at 104 
percent of average, with northern Cal at 122%. It's not unusual to have 
snow in Tahoe this time of year. (For that matter, I've seen snowstorms 
in the Sierra in August.) Don't tell the farmers we're getting way too 
much rain this year. Don't tell my friends who have removed large orange 
groves because their water allocations were severely cut. Don't tell the 
farmers in the San Joaquin Valley (which grows a very large part of 
America's food) who have fallowed half or more of their fields. Don't 
tell the farmworkers there who are out of work, resulting in stores 
closing for lack of customers with money, resulting in FORTY percent 
unemployment in some towns. And don't tell the schoolchildren I met who 
were hungry because mom and dad weren't working in the fields, who told 
of friends that were even worse off, so hungry and with no shoes that 
fit that they couldn't go to school. Yes, in America. California needs 
water, and snow. The Sierra snowpack is California's largest water 
reservoir. AsABat