[pct-l] Ice Axe and Spikes from Dunsmuir to Ashland in June?

[Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes]

In 2009 I set off from Dunsmuir on July 3. I encountered only a  
little snow, none of it very bad. There are a couple of treacherous  
sections in there where I wouldn't want to find snow, but there  
wasn't any snow in those sections in 2009. I think 2009 was a  
somewhat high snow year in the Sierras but I don't know how it  
compared for Northern California averages.

Diane

On Apr 3, 2012, at 10:00 AM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:

> I have day hiked sections of the PCT over the years and I am  
> thinking about
> doing a thru hike in the coming years.  As a "see how it goes"  
> hike, I am
> planning to do a section from Dunsmuir to Ashland from June 20 or  
> so to
> July 5 or so of this year.  I've found the snow reporting site:
>
> http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/mapper?level=2&map=03&quad=15
>
> Snow pack is around 75% of normal this year. I wouldn't worry about it
> except that I will be going through earlier than most thru hikers.   
> So,
> what do you think?  Should I worry about an Ice Axe and spikes or  
> what?
>  How much snow should I be thinking I'll be running into?  What  
> questions
> should I be asking that I'm not?
>
> Thanks...
>
> Starman