[pct-l] Sierra Snow Update

[Melanie Clarke]

Dear Reinhold,

Hmmm, you are trying to recover from your faux pas.  Well, I will have you
know they wrote a song about me, AND Jennifer Lopez with her assets was just
named most beautiful woman so we'll let this one slide.  Besides, I hope to
work on my "bottom line" with my hike.

Yes, let's take Switchback for a swim!

Melanie

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 2:47 AM, Reinhold Metzger
<reinholdmetzger at cox.net>wrote:

>  Yes Melanie,
> If I want to zooom in to get a close up shut I need the wide angle lens to
> capture it all.
> And yes Melanie,  I also appreciate your "assets"....that is why I want a
> close up shot,
> so I can appreciate them even more.
>
> And please Melanie and Sugar Moma,......don't throw me into Lake Morena at
> 5 in
>  the morning.
> The water will be cold and I am not well insulated like Switchback......I'm
> just a lean
>  hiking machine.....I will be freezing.
> Stick with the original plan....throw Switchback in the lake....he has more
> insulation.
>
> Switchback has so much insulation, he could hike naked at the North Pole
> and not
> feel the cold.
>
> JMT Reinhold
> The lean hiking machine
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> On 4/21/2011 8:26 PM, Melanie Clarke wrote:
>
> Dear Reinhold,
>
> Are you saying that you need a wide angle lens to capture all of my
> backside???? OUCH!!!
>
> All right, that's it!  YOU are the one who will be going swimming in Lake
> Moreno at 5am!!!!!  I'll have you know there are some who appreciate my
> "assets!"
>
> Melanie
>
> *Although,...if Melanie&  Sugar Moma should get caught with their pants
> down
> I want to be there.....it should be quiet a spectacular sight.
> I think I will bring my camera......and wide angle lens*
>
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 4:24 AM, Reinhold Metzger <reinholdmetzger at cox.net
> > wrote:
>
> Yes Shroomer,
> Excellent advice.....I have been sending Sierra snow warnings to the list
> since December which have mostly fallen on deaf ears.
> It appears folks are not accepting the facts or are in a denial stage.
> If you think last year was bad, you might be in a state of shock when you
> hit the Sierra this year.
> I have been prowling around the Sierra, Summer&  Winter, for 40+ years and
> don't really remember ever seeing more snow than this year.
> I just came back this weekend from another week of skiing at Mammoth and
> can
> tell you, huge boulders that normally protrude way above the snow line are
> still
> completely covered by snow.
> Mammoth averages 340" of snow per year...it got 516" by this time last year
> and
> has already received 626" this year.
> Do the math.....this ain't rocket science....everybody should be able to
> figure
> out what kind of snow year this is.
> A good friend in the Tahoe area told me 2weeks ago that Donner Summit had
> received
> 740" so far and that there is about as much snow as he has ever seen.
>
> So, what does that mean?..It means there is a hell of a lot of snow in the
> Sierra
> and the snow pack (base), at the higher elevations is still 23 feet high
> which is
> about 8-9 feet higher then what it was last year this time of the year.
> I know, some folks say it may all melt by the time we get there in June.
> I say, don't count on it..23 feet of snow take a lot longer to melt than
> 14-15 feet.
> Take Shroomer's&  Ned's advice....be prepared and don't get caught with
> your pants
> down.
>
> Although,...if Melanie&  Sugar Moma should get caught with their pants down
> I want to be there.....it should be quiet a spectacular sight.
> I think I will bring my camera......and wide angle lens......I want to make
> sure I
> capture all of them.
>
> This will be a spectacular photo opportunity....Sugar Moma&  Melanie, in
> color, on
> wide angle, on the PCT, knee deep in snow, WITH THEIR PANTS DOWN.
> This almost certainly will win the "PACIFIC CREST TRAIL COMMUNICATOR"
> picture of
> the year award and grace the center fold.
>
> Deems and Monte Dodge will be so jealous.
>
> I'm so excited about this I can't sleep...I'm like a little kid in a candy
> store...I
> cant keep my mind of Sugar Moma and Melanie.
>
> JMT Reinhold
> Your sleepless trail companion
>
> ------------------------------------
> Shroomer wrote;
> Because of a lot of snow in the San Jacinto and beyond last year, and the
> recommendation at the "snow report" at KO, many people had their winter
> gear
> sent to Idyllwild, (Paradise was closed) and decided at that point.  Some
> of
> us jumped forward to hike the Mojave and Tehachapis first and came back
> several weeks later, and still found lots of snow to deal with.  People who
> had sent their winter gear on to Kennedy Meadows were either buying new
> traction devices etc in Idyllwild or were yogiing it from other hikers.  I
> remember the gear shops had a huge run on winter gear because of us, and
> had
> to ship in extra microspikes.  I loaned my ice axe to a Fidget, and then
> ended up using Bacon's ice axe later.  Everybody was traiding gear to make
> it work.  And then many chose to hike the roads around Fuller Ridge
> instead.
>  If you want to hike that section in deep snow, have the gear.
>
> My recommendation, given the snowiness of this year, is to have ice axe and
> traction devices sent to Idyllwild, and then decide when you get there.  If
> it's all melted down to a manageable level, as in many past years, then
> just
> ship it on to KM.  But if you end up in conditions like last year, you will
> be glad of anything you had planned to use in the High Sierra.  You may
> need
> the option, or you may not, but if you need the gear and don't have it, you
> may miss one of the great parts of the trail.  Frankly, those mtns, and
> Fuller Ridge, which was scary even with the gear for many of us, were
> beautiful, and a lot of fun to hike over.
>
> Shroomer
>
>
>
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