Vitaliy M wrote:Valley would be the best bet to climb right?

My prediction is that you will see many bay area SP'ers there this weekend

Has nothing to do with the weather..... Cal -Trans manning/funding calls the shots.

Took this last Sunday of the road to South Lake, and you could just tell the season for Autumn photography on the east side was going to be short.

the Sebec Lake guy, has a pretty good web cam at Whitney portal, looks like snow down pretty low.

Anyone want to venture a guess on how much snow is up top on White Mountain? My Dad and I were planning on going up the Road on the South Face on Saturday, but were not planning on the snow. Any advice would be welcome.
Thanks,
Dean

deanatglobe wrote:Anyone want to venture a guess on how much snow is up top on White Mountain? My Dad and I were planning on going up the Road on the South Face on Saturday, but were not planning on the snow. Any advice would be welcome.
Thanks,
Dean

I called the ranger station about that yesterday and they said the snow is down below the snow gate, down to the Sierra overlook or whatever they call that point with the bronze plaque. The road is open, but is snowy and icy. 4WD and chains required, according to them.

That said, it's supposed to warm up substantially again, so it could melt off once this system passes.

3Deserts wrote:That said, it's supposed to warm up substantially again, so it could melt off once this system passes.

For one day.

I most highly recommend that no get too optimistic cuz even the local forecaster's see something different beginning late Saturday.

From the latest NWS RENO Synopsis (857 PM PDT WED OCT 6 2010)
....

"ZONAL FLOW DEVELOPS FOR FRIDAY THAT TRANSITIONS TO BUILDING LONG
WAVE RIDGE FOR SATURDAY. THE ZONAL FLOW WILL ALLOW A WEAK SHORT
WAVE TO PASS THROUGH THE NORTHERN CWA FRIDAY/FRIDAY EVENING WITH
AN INCREASE IN CLOUDS BUT NO PCPN. BY SATURDAY AFTERNOON CLOUDS
SHOULD DECREASE. SATURDAY WILL LIKELY BE THE WARMEST DAY OF THE
SHORT TERM WITH TEMPS AT OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE AVERAGE. MLF

LONG TERM...SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...
MEDIUM RANGE GUIDANCE AND ENSEMBLE DATA SOURCES ARE IN GENERAL
AGREEMENT WITH THE WEATHER PATTERN THRU THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. ON
SUNDAY...RIDGE AXIS MOVES TO THE EAST AS TROF APPROACHES THE PAC NW
COAST. THIS SETUP WILL KEEP THE REGION DRY AND BRING A FEW DEGREES
OF ADDITIONAL WARMING WITH MAX TEMPS AROUND 80 IN LOWER ELEVATIONS.

BY SUN NIGHT...THIS TROF IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INLAND THEN DIG A BIT
INTO THE ERN GREAT BASIN...WHICH WILL DRIVE A BACK DOOR COLD FRONT
ACROSS THE REGION AND SHIFT WINDS TO THE NORTH LATE SUN NGT THRU
MONDAY. THE ECMWF IS STILL FASTER AND FARTHER EAST WITH THE FRONT
PASSAGE...BUT HAS COME CLOSER TO THE GFS/CANADIAN WHICH FAVORS A
SMALL AREA OF FORCING AND LIGHT POST-FRONTAL MOISTURE REACHING NERN
CA-NWRN NV SUN NGT...THEN PUSHING SOUTH ACROSS WRN NV ON MONDAY AND
CLEARING MINERAL-MONO COUNTIES BY LATE MON NIGHT. HAVE ADJUSTED POPS
BASED ON THIS TREND...WHICH IS MAINLY FAVORING THE 12Z GFS/CANADIAN
DATA. MAX TEMPS ON MONDAY WILL BE ABOUT 10-15 DEGREES COOLER IN THE
POST-FRONTAL AIR MASS.




PS!

Will get the straight skinny on 120 TIOGA PASS tomorrow and post up as soon as I get it.

The Chief wrote:

3Deserts wrote:That said, it's supposed to warm up substantially again, so it could melt off once this system passes.

For one day.

I most highly recommend that no get too optimistic cuz even the local forecaster's see something different beginning late Saturday.

I'm with you on this. Those were the ranger's suggestions. I figured he was waxing awfully optimistically.

Latest NOAA forecast for around Barcroft calls for continued light snow through tonight, that supposed Sunday "high" of 44f, and daytime highs in the not-quite-so-snow-melting mid-upper 30s through at least next Wednesday.

My feeling is bring your best 4x4, chains, and recovery gear, 'cause winter's here as far as real altitude goes.

This complicates my plans for a late season hike up to White Mountain though. May have to borrow my ex's Jeep!

Really nice day on Friday. East Ridge of Russell was spicy with all the snow!

Nice weather predicted for this week.

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.ph ... d2=-118.19

Rob wrote:Nice weather predicted for this week.

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.ph ... d2=-118.19

YEP!

And I am gonna be fish'n every day of it......





Oh, btw, don't really care if I catch anything. Just being out in the goodness of it all is worth every precious moment.

Conditions were quite brutal at 9000 feet in the Sierra this past Saturday!

Picture links removed.

DMT

Another fine set of photos that I'll have to reload every time I come back to this page and check on any further posts. A pain even with high speed connect.

Good to see, though, thanx.

1000Pks wrote:Another fine set of photos that I'll have to reload every time I come back to this page and check on any further posts. A pain even with high speed connect.

Good to see, though, thanx.

The images should get cached locally. Perhaps you should set a bigger cache?

MoapaPk wrote:

1000Pks wrote:Another fine set of photos that I'll have to reload every time I come back to this page and check on any further posts. A pain even with high speed connect.

Good to see, though, thanx.

The images should get cached locally. Perhaps you should set a bigger cache?

With IE, that was the case. Using Mozzarella, it doesn't seem to cache much of anything, and I haven't found the settings to adjust this. Does anyone know how to work this stupid software?