[pct-l] Timberline's Question about Snowpack Around San Jacinto/Fuller Ridge

[Dan Welch]

Thanks Bilbo for the snow overlay link - I had forgotten that one.

And thanks to Quackers for the link to the webcam at the San Jacinto Tram.
I never even know about that link.  That's only 500' lower elevation than
Fuller Ridge.  It looking like they only got 6-12" at the tram judging by
the webcam.  This corroborates the data on the overlay map...

Anyway, with this info in hand and knowing that they are forecasting temps
in the 50's up there the next 10 days, I'm staying with my original 4/1
start date.  Full steam ahead!

Timberline 


-----Original Message-----
From: pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net [mailto:pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net]
On Behalf Of robert
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 2:19 PM
To: Pct-L at backcountry.net
Subject: [pct-l] Timberline's Question about Snowpack Around San
Jacinto/Fuller Ridge

Timberline,

Go to PCTA's map page
http://www.pcta.org/discover-the-trail/maps-and-guidebooks/<http://www.pcta.
org/discover-the-trail/maps-and-guidebooks/> and choose the "Snow Depth"
overlay.  This product is dominantly based on satellite observations and is
a very good ballpark source of current snow depths.  You'll see that in
Southern California the problem on the trail is not around San Jacinto and
Fuller Ridge, but in the San Bernandino and San Gabriel Mts.  Clearly 4 feet
was not deposited around San Jacinto.  In my professional (?) opinion, the
probability is high that you will have no problem whatsoever with snow on
Fuller Ridge on April 14 and none anywhere else in SoCal afterwards.