Sierra Snowpack?
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 10:20 am
Hi Folks,
I just found this site and this is my first post. I'm from Boston and I usually spend two+ weeks in the mountains around the beginning of July for lots of photography—only day trips because I have too much gear to lug. Last year was pretty poor pickin's for high meadow flowers because of the heavy snowpack. I'm wondering if anyone has a sense of snow conditions this year vis-a-vis last year or where I can look on the web. The National Weather Service site is pretty unintelligable. I've called various Forest Service and Ranger stations in past years, but they haven't been very knowledgable, i.e. three years ago they told me Blue Canyon, near the Sonora Pass, was still socked in. I gave it a try anyway. There was a field of gorgeous blue flowers and hardly a speck of white anywhere!
Thanks,
Merrill
I just found this site and this is my first post. I'm from Boston and I usually spend two+ weeks in the mountains around the beginning of July for lots of photography—only day trips because I have too much gear to lug. Last year was pretty poor pickin's for high meadow flowers because of the heavy snowpack. I'm wondering if anyone has a sense of snow conditions this year vis-a-vis last year or where I can look on the web. The National Weather Service site is pretty unintelligable. I've called various Forest Service and Ranger stations in past years, but they haven't been very knowledgable, i.e. three years ago they told me Blue Canyon, near the Sonora Pass, was still socked in. I gave it a try anyway. There was a field of gorgeous blue flowers and hardly a speck of white anywhere!
Thanks,
Merrill