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Still planning to do the Onion Valley backpack Oct 28-29, as long as the road is open.
This weekend, (Sun 22nd), a few of us will be dayclimbing Boundary Peak. I know there's snow up there, but hopefully the road is drivable. I'm checking on that now. If anyone else is interested in this, e-mail me. I'm sending out directions, etc this afternoon.
Thanks for the updates, After Seven and will_jrob
Krudler, sorry to hear about your father. Hang in there!
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free . . . . Jim Morrison
Thanks Snowy....
Father-in-law, actually, and he died Sunday morning Sad but somewhat of a relief at this juncture. It appears I will be heading back to FL over the next few weeks (exact dates tbd) to administrate the estate and such, so no backpack trip for me
But you guys have a good time, I look forward to the report!
"Krusty, you know Bette Midler?"
"Yeah we own a racehorse together - the Krudler!"
Boundary and Montgomery on Thursday, October 12th:
I wonder how much it snowed in the Whites on Friday night? - it was raining hard in the evening on Friday when I was driving on Highway 6. That should be a great climb if you can get to the trailhead.
hopefully not too much. From our hike Saturday morning we could see that Olancha got a lot of snow from Friday's storm, but most of it was gone by the afternoon.
The snow on Whitney doesn't look too bad, so I'm hoping its about the same on Boundary. We'll go as far as we can. CLMRG will be there, so we'll have good tracks to follow!
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free . . . . Jim Morrison
Horseshoe Mdw road is closed now. Not sure how long Onion Valley Road will be open. I will be off-line until late Wed, so I won't know what conditions are for that weekend.
So how about a trip to Death Valley? I heard the weather has cooled down. We could meet at Emmigrant Campground (free camping), then do day trips in the area.
If the majority wants to do the Sierra, someone will have to keep tabs on the weather and road closures.
Please post your ideas here for weekend of the 28-29th!
Gotta get back to work, but will post more later.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free . . . . Jim Morrison
Looks like the WX is going to be fairly stable? I'm up for anywhere
I have not done a whole lot of DV exploring other then Car Camp trips to Saline and Eureka Valley with side canyon hikes. Lots of way cool prehistoric and historic stuff.
I'll be heading over to the east side from the west probably 178, Walker Pass.
I will be leaving tonight, and won't be back til late Wed. Trekker and Trailtrekker will keep tabs on road conditions and weather.
So lets plan on OV, with the option of Death Valley if conditions change. I don't think OV road closes, but since Horseshoe closed, and Whitney Portal is getting icy, we should have an alternate plan.
I sent an e-mail to those interested, so contact Trailtrekker or Trekker if you want to be added. For those on that e-mail, reply to all so everyone knows what's going on.
We'll plan on OV/Matlock Lake, but if things change, be prepared to go to DV. Hope this makes sense :retard:
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free . . . . Jim Morrison
Umm, I don't know why, but I didn't get the e mail with everybody's addy on it, so e mail me at metabulu@sbcglobal.net and we'll figure out whats up. I'm home this wknd so will be checking in on this. Trekker, I think yours is the only e mail I have.
I had a talk with the rangers at the Lone Pine station on Saturday, and they said the Onion Valley road is open, so based on NOAA forecasts, it will be open this weekend. They also said there was between 6' to 12' of snow at the trailhead, and had a report from a hiker of hip-deep snow on the trail to Kearsarge Pass! Temps this weekend will apparently be in the 40's, possibly dropping to the high teens at night. So warm clothes are essential, as are gaiters. Snowy will scout the trailhead on her way back from her bday celebrations, so we'll have a more first hand report.
I think you might have less snow to deal with than they reported - a lot of snow has melted off lately. You probably won't really be dealing with much snow until 11,000 to 12,000 feet - but that's my guess. This past weekend there wasn't much of any snow at 11,000 feet on the west side in Sequioa NP. It was cold at night though.
Temps this weekend will apparently be in the 40's, possibly dropping to the high teens at night. So warm clothes are essential, as are gaiters. Snowy will scout the trailhead on her way back from her bday celebrations, so we'll have a more first hand report.