Best guess for Tioga Pass opening?
- austex
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Re: Best guess for Tioga Pass opening?
June 28 as it's a Friday...and since Mike took the 21st already; I'd put my money there...
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Re: Best guess for Tioga Pass opening?
June 20. Think we're melting quicker than 2017.
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Re: Best guess for Tioga Pass opening?
The day it opens. When do I get my sketch? ;-)
If you don't know where you're going, then any path will get you there.
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Re: Best guess for Tioga Pass opening?
I'll go with June 21st even though Mike already took the date.
I hope the snowcat they sent up was carrying a copious amount of charcoal dust to spread on the snow covering the road.
I hope the snowcat they sent up was carrying a copious amount of charcoal dust to spread on the snow covering the road.
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Re: Best guess for Tioga Pass opening?
May 23rd Thursday for me
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Re: Best guess for Tioga Pass opening?
https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/tioga.htmPlowing near Siesta Lake
Tioga Road
May 3, 2019
Plows are plowing in 8 feet of snow one mile west of White Wolf (near Siesta Lake).
Snowpack in the Tuolumne River basin was at 149% of average this year as of May 1. View a list of previous opening dates. There is no estimated date for opening.
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Re: Best guess for Tioga Pass opening?
To clarify - when officially open to cars.JayOtheMountains wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2019 9:00 am Are we talking plowed through, or open? Open to cyclists? Motors?
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Re: Best guess for Tioga Pass opening?
Couldn't you just strap on the skiis, the shovel and be there in like 14 hrs and clean down the floor of your tent and the store?
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Re: Best guess for Tioga Pass opening?
The park service web site reports that they started plowing at the May Lake junction yesterday and that plowing will begin tomorrow (May 15) from Tioga Pass. I assume this means the road is clear to Tioga Pass from the east side and they will begin to plow from Tioga Pass west until the two plowing efforts meet somewhere in between for a golden spike ceremony (hopefully on June 7, my predicted date). Making really good progress.
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