[pct-l] Horseshoe Mdw Rd update

["Marty Royal" <marty_royal@hotmail.com>]

I just got this e-mail from BJ:
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Hi --------!
   Guess the pushy phone-calls worked [G]: the Horseshoe Meadow Road was 
repaired yeasterday, and is driveable to a gate within a miles of the TH 
turnaround. That means people can hike down to the gate and be picked up 
by somebody waiting in a car at the other side. There's no place to 
actually leave a vehicle at the gate (no off-road parking area of any 
kind), so I think *hitching* a ride would be nearly impossible, but if a 
thru-hiker can get a support-team member to cooperate, they'll avoid an 
extra 12-20 mile walk. The FS is waiting for the snows to stop (it 
snowed last night) to finish plowing the rest of the road; still pretty 
much total snow cover up there.
   Also total cover from the Lone Pine Lake turnoff on the Whitney 
Trail, and so much snow around Kearsarge that only about 5-6 campsites 
are cleared at the Onion Valley (road's end) CG; there's a huge cornice 
on the Kearsarge Pass itself, so that usually "easiest pass in the 
Sierra" *isn't* [G] right now.         birgitte

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