[pct-l] (Guest Post) Northern Washington in June

[mjlilly at mac.com (Mike Lilly)]

> Any ideas about what to expect about this year's snow pack?

Currently the snow pack in the Cascades is near the long term average. See:

http://www.ocs.orst.edu/pub_ftp/weather/snow_reports/2004/snow_report.040120

That means there is much more snow than we have experienced in recent dry
years. Of course it is too soon to make reliable predictions for June.

For anecdotal evidence, I can tell you that in early January we had about 6"
of snow in Portland for the first time in years, and yesterday at the
Oregon-Washinton border, there were  still patches of snow on the trails
almost all the way down to the river in the Columbia River Gorge, and the
elevation there is only a few hundred feet.

Mike