[pct-l] Sierra Snow Situation

[Bighummel at aol.com (Bighummel@aol.com)]

The southern Sierra, specifically the Kern River drainage area that includes 
snow survey sites at Crabtree Meadows and Tyndall Creek (11,300') is showing 
steep meltoff curves and only a few of the survey sites in this group showed 
ANY accumulation from this last storm that blew through southern California 
yesterday.  

Another wet April isn't likely but just when somebody says something like 
that ol' Mother Nature just loves to whip up some great late Spring storms to 
show you who is in charge.  

Plan for an early Sierra entry, stay flexible and be ready for those late 
storms.  What's early?  June 1?  May 24th if you have good gear and don't mind a 
bit of snow and ice travel?

Here are the charts that I refer to regularly; 
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/snow/current/snow/pillowplots/Kern.html

IMHO,

Greg