pburke wrote:
they will still be skiing on Mammoth Mountain when we hike past it. I saw some announcement that they plan to stay open deep into July.
In that area, snow is higher than in other areas (reason for the resort being located there), but anywhere above 10,500 and north facing we expect a lot of snow, 11k and above mostly solid until we get to Sequoia, but there we will be up to 13 and 14k. We have done hikes like that before and in July you walk on the snow, It becomes "Sierra Corn" and only in late afternoon does it get soft in some places to become a real problem. Snow shoes would not work on suncups anyway. hard enough to walk around them with crampons.
RicHammond wrote:
I'll tell you what. I just spent last week in Mammoth and have NEVER seen that much snow. EVER! And this is late April. Right now there is at 11,054 ft there is 330", 180" at 9000 ft. You may spend a lot of your hike needing snowshoes. ❄️ pburke wrote:
ah, there's some of that 175% of normal snow pack...
RicHammond wrote:
More from Feb 1. Eastern Sierras. Bridgeport CA
Df 105mm f2.5 P.C. non-AI White Vacancy by ric_hammond, on Flickr
