[pct-l] SoCal Snow level

[garretchristensen at yahoo.com (Garret Christensen)]

So the San Gabes and San Jacinto and everything in
SoCal have been making up for their lack of snow in
early season?  I guess that's good for the ski
resorts, but not so good for my plans to climb San Jac
and do the Angeles Crest 100 route the week before
TrailFest (the last week of March).  Does anybody have
thoughts on what those hikes would be like, or know of
good websites that describe the snowpack level?

thanks,
the Onion       



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> Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 10:59:28 -0800
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> Subject: RE: [pct-l] a hike on pct question about
> snow
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> soCal is experiencing something of a "March miracle"
> and Mom Nature is
> dumping lots of snow on the Sierras this year. 
> There's another series of
> storms supposed to hit this weekend, most certainly
> bringing more snow to
> Section G - and the descent from Trail Crest, should
> you get that far, will
> likely require at least basic mountaineering &
> navigation skills.   I second
> AsABat's mention of the whitneyportalstore website
> as a source for
> up-to-date local information.
> 
> fwiw, on Memorial Day weekend in 1977, a drought
> year, my husband & I hiked
> from Cedar Grove on the west side, ascending the
> Bubbs Creek drainage, to
> climb Mt. Rixford.  There was almost no snow at all,
> except for a
> north-facing snow-slope high on the mountain.  Snow
> levels all depend on the
> year - and while we're not receiving the amount of
> snow we did last year,
> there still seems to be a lot of it.  I don't think
> it will be gone by late
> May.
> 
> Christine "Ceanothus" Kudija
> PCT partially '94
> 
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>                                                     
>                 Dag
> Hammarskjold


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