[pct-l] Lassen over Memorial Day weekend?

[Diane Soini]

Hey Piper's Mom, this is Piper's Mom's Daughter.

I remember in 2009 when I hiked through that you had cut out a  
newspaper article for me about Huff-and-Puff and his girlfriend  
hiking your area over Memorial Day. I guess that year there was a lot  
of snow but they found their way okay. The lady in the forest service  
office accused them (to me directly, not in the paper) of getting  
lost because they mentioned there were lots of blowdowns. They  
weren't lost. There WERE lots of blowdowns that year. I counted them  
the first day and got to 50 before I lost track. And I talked to Huff- 
and-Puff that early July when I was there and he said they didn't get  
lost.

Anyway, they successfully went from Quincy-LaPorte Road to Highway 36  
which I believe is higher and more wild than Lassen, in a higher snow  
year, over Memorial Day, with a certain amount of struggling through  
snow but not so much that they got lost, if that means anything to  
anybody.

Diane

On May 22, 2013, at 10:00 AM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:

> From: Meridith Rosendahl <meridith.rosendahl at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Lassen over Memorial Day weekend?
>
>>> Hiking south from where the pct crosses hwy 36 and headed for  
>>> Butt Mt,
> I've
> hit snow 7,000 and higher in May.  <<
>
> I see Butt Mountain every day: from my house, from Highway 36 on  
> the way to
> Chester, etc.  There is patchy snow up there now, but not much and  
> less
> every day.   Log trucks are using the road to Carter Meadow,  
> exiting onto
> highway 32 just above Elam campground, but I have no idea at what  
> elevation
> they are doing the logging.
>
> There is no snow at 7000 feet on the south/west facing slopes.   
> There is
> some still on north/east facing slopes around here.
>
> Piper's Mom