[pct-l] What are the snow conditions now on Baden-Powell?

[gwschenk at socal.rr.com]

We drove by Vincent Gap on Saturday.

There is still maybe 50% coverage from the Vincent Gap trailhead. Past there, to the west, the north facing slopes are still fully covered with snow. South facing slopes are dry. 

The snow on the north slopes is hard and slick in the morning. We watched horrified as a woman, on her first hike ever, fell 200' from the Dawson Saddle trail onto Angles Crest Highway. It took an hour for her to be extracted by helicopter.

Please take care on those slopes in the early morning and be properly equipped.

Gary



---- Rob Langsdorf <mctrob at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> Someone told me that he thought he was still going to need crampons to do an early morning climb of Baden-Powell from Vincent Gap on the 22nd. I suspect that with the warm weather we have been having that the snow is melting fast and that the trail slushes up fairly early in the day. So I don't thing that the people in his group would not need crampons, etc. Any feed back from those who have hiked over Baden-Powell in the past week?
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