[pct-l] Snow along the Southern JMT?

[calliger at infolane.com (RJC)]

In my experience along the JMY any July/Aug snow melts within
a few days and does no require crampons...as long as you stay
at trail evelvation and dont go peak bagging.

Richard

At 9:12 PM -0000 8/10/04, Steve Sergeant wrote:
>Has anyone on this list been on the southern JMT, between Mather Pass and
>Mt. Whitney in the past couple of weeks?
>
>I'm concerned by reports I read on TrailJournals.com about significant
>snow on the northern slope of Forester Pass and on the Whitney trail. Can
>anyone offer any, more recent updates?
>
>I plan to pass through there going southbound in about two weeks and am
>trying to decide whether to take something like instep crampons or
>Yaktrax.
>
>
>
>
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