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Tuolumne meadows/CA 120 conditions
Has anyone recently skied Tuolumne meadows? Is Rt 120 plowed? Is there
a reliable resource for current snow depth in that area? My friends and me are thinking to ski from Tioga pass to Twin lakes next weekend, snow permitting. |
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Tuolumne meadows/CA 120 conditions
Is there a way to find where the skiable snow line is now? There is a
storm on the way, I hear. On Apr 4, 4:12*pm, SMS wrote: On 02/04/10 10:30 PM, wrote: Has anyone recently skied Tuolumne meadows? Is Rt 120 plowed? Is there a reliable resource for current snow depth in that area? My friends and me are thinking to ski from Tioga pass to Twin lakes next weekend, snow permitting. 120 will have a late opening this year. I don't think it's ever opened this early. |
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Tuolumne meadows/CA 120 conditions
There's pretty much snow down to the lower gate on the eastside out of
Lee Vining, so it would be long way up to T-Meadows right now, and it's fresh cold powder. It would make for a quite long trip to get up to Tuolumne, and then all the way up to Horse Creek from there in current full-on winter conditions. This will tell you a lot you'd need to know for snow depths: http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/SnowSensors.html If it ever clears up in the Sierra, and we get a warm spring, there's a small chance they would try to have it open by Memorial Day, but right now, with the weather (and the 3 feet of new snow I have on the back deck in the past week), that's a real longshot. We usually do our skate trips in early May up there once they plow the road at least up to Ellery Lake and allow day trips into the canyon. Mark On Apr 4, 6:23*pm, " wrote: Is there a way to find where the skiable snow line is now? There is a storm on the way, I hear. On Apr 4, 4:12*pm, SMS wrote: On 02/04/10 10:30 PM, wrote: Has anyone recently skied Tuolumne meadows? Is Rt 120 plowed? Is there a reliable resource for current snow depth in that area? My friends and me are thinking to ski from Tioga pass to Twin lakes next weekend, snow permitting. 120 will have a late opening this year. I don't think it's ever opened this early. |
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Tuolumne meadows/CA 120 conditions
On Apr 6, 1:03*am, Captain Nordic wrote:
There's pretty much snow down to the lower gate on the eastside out of Lee Vining, so it would be long way up to T-Meadows right now, and it's fresh cold powder. It would make for a quite long trip to get up to Tuolumne, and then all the way up to Horse Creek from there in current full-on winter conditions. This will tell you a lot you'd need to know for snow depths:http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/SnowSensors.html Great web site, Mark, thank you. Looks like T-Meadows got 36 in of new snow bringing the total to 84". We have decided to go up to Ostrander lake from Badger pass. If it looks like it's going to rain, will drive on the eastern side and try the Mammoth area, or Tom's place area. |
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glide wax, tent for backcountry (was: Tuolumne meadows/CA 120conditions)
This will tell you a lot you'd need to know for snow depths:http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/SnowSensors.html Does anyone have suggestions on glide waxing for the backcountry (to avoid snow buildup at the kick zone) and a tent shape that sheds snow efficiently? These 2 issue were the most pressing ones during a High Sierra trip my 5 friends and I just got back from (Badger pass - Ostrander Hut and back, decided not to do T meadows due to long of a walk on a road). 40% chance of 6 inches of snow has turned into 2 feet of sticky stuff which fell essentially non-stop in 24 hrs. I only waxed the glide zone of my E99s. Myself and everybody had ~5 lbs of snow on each ski. So should we have waxed the kick zone with glide wax, too? I am looking for something reliable - no need for super glide, but just to avoid snow buildup. If I glide wax the kick zone, will I still get grip from the fish scales? Will climbing skins still stick to glide wax? Any suggestions for a glide wax that can be applied w/o an iron in the wilderness? I only know how to iron race-wax for skating - does not help in the backcountry. As for the tent - we had 2 lightweight pyramid shaped tents, with a 45 degree slope, supported by skis or poles in the middle, and stretched using skis and poles as stakes. The tents were collapsing at the edges from the snow that was shedding. Would a dome shape work better? I would think the edges of a dome would shed snow well, but the top of the dome would accumulate snow - wouldn't it? |
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