Re: [pct-l] Yosemite Plans

It is funny that you should mention this trip.  I (and a few other) 
are also going over to Yosemite just before the end of the year.  I 
will actually be leaving on the 29th and returning the 2nd.  To bad 
you aren't coming back a couple days earlier or I was leaving a 
couple days later.  Then you could tell me all about your trip.

I am not the one planning this trip so I am not sure where we are 
starting/ending but I am sure it will be great.

Ty

At 5:40 PM -0800 12/11/99, R.J. Calliger (510.502.5552) wrote:
>Hello All,
>
>We have a winter/snow trip planned for Yosemite after Christmas,
>the 26th-29th.  Anyone interested in joining? Full winter-gear
>required as well as snow-shoes or ice-axe/crampon experience.
>Temps will range from daytime highs of about 40 F to lows of
>20-28 F at night.
>
>I have backcountry permit for 6 and campground reservations at Upperpine
>CG. There is room for 4 more ($2-3 each camp fee depending on #)
>
>The trip itinerary is open for now; depending on storms and
>snow depth, we may do day hikes from the valley and/or one
>night bivy in Little Yosemite Valley in the "shadow" of Half Dome.
>
>Other possibilies include a snow shoe/hike out to Glacier Point from
>the road closure (Badger Pass I believe).
>
>Think snow, as the jetstream has yet to put a significant snow
>storm south of Highway 50; and what snow we have received has been
>melting quickly.  Dodge Ridge, for example, inidcates it willprobably not
>open yet.
>However, Sonora pass is closed now 6.5 miles east of Strawberry,  instead
>of Kennedy Meadows...so winter snow is coming, albeit slowly...
>
>Rich Calliger
>
>
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