[pct-l] Sierra Snow Entry Prediction

[stevesgt at effable.com (Steve Sergeant)]

Another data point....

I just returned from a ski tour into Tuolumne Meadows over Tioga 
Pass.  Over the weekend we saw about two feet of new snow fall. 
Another three feet were predicted for the storm from Monday night 
through mid-day Thursday.

In the Meadow, snow is above the bottom of the roof rafters at the 
store and Post Office.  The ski hut, which serves as the campground 
office in the summer, the snow is higher than the roof on the north 
side, and almost that high on the south side.  Last year, I was told, 
the snow just reached the bottom of the hut's windows at its maximum.

The ranger said that it could be as late as the third or fourth week 
of June before highway 120 opens for the summer.

Driving back west over Echo Summit, it looked like the new layer of 
snow was at least 2 ft tall on top of the previously plowed layer.


At 9:27 AM -0800 3/23/05, larry hillberg wrote:
>Returning from Death Valley on Tuesday, my drive on
>395 north was slowed by significant snow from Bishop
>onwards.  The highway crosses passes of 8000 feet or
>so, and was a mess.  Donner Pass on I80 was getting
>new snow even this morning (Wednesday), and looked as
>if it has received feet of new snow during this storm.
>
>Larry
>
>--- Bighummel@aol.com wrote:
>>  My former Sierra snow entry prediction is getting
>>  completely snowed over
>>  currently with this latest storm.  The southern
>>  Sierra is getting hit hard, again,
>>  and the snow accumulation is significantly being
>  > added to.