General discussions on hiking in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest
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bushwhacker
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by bushwhacker » September 24th, 2017, 6:50 am
Chip Down wrote:No need for snowshoes, but gaiters highly recommended.
Yes gaiters are highly recommended. Snow baskets on my trekking poles would have helped too.
More fun in the snow. Yocum Ridge on Friday 9/22. Nothing like taking an hour and a half longer then normal to complete the trip. But the sun was out and it was just perfect.
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drm
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by drm » September 26th, 2017, 7:43 am
retired jerry wrote:I'll love it if it all melts off. Not quite time for the snow to come back.
It looks like us backpackers will get no respite between the storms putting the fires out and winter arriving in the alpine country. There was one or two trips I had held off, hoping for clear skies, but now they are under snow and possibly more coming this weekend. Snow on the hillsides doesn't keep me indoors, but setting up tents in it, searching for covered trails in it, is a bit beyond what I do any more. Usually snow doesn't arrive for good between 6000 and 7000 feet until well into the Fall. But it doesn't look like this is going to melt off. So our smoke clearing storm is also a season ender, particularly when the low altitude stuff in the Gorge is all closed.
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drm
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by drm » September 26th, 2017, 11:57 am
Then the next storm arrives on Friday. I guess the exception to what I said is if you can get out the next few days - but I'm not retired yet!
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retired jerry
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by retired jerry » September 26th, 2017, 12:46 pm
I recommend being retired
The next storm is warmer - no snow on Hood, although there is further east like the Wallowas
The next storm has only a fraction of an inch of rain, not the inches of the previous storm
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Chip Down
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by Chip Down » September 28th, 2017, 8:24 pm
Chip Down wrote:Sept 23rd. First snow spotted just barely below 5k'. At the Timberline Trail junction (5600') it was solid. Offtrail it was right around 12" deep, but on the trail it was somewhat packed.
All gone! Amazing, 5 days is all it took. Timberline trail does get a little tricky to follow above 7000', but of course at that point you're out of the trees, so not too hard to find your way. Not very deep, fairly easy to walk in.
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retired jerry
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by retired jerry » September 29th, 2017, 5:12 am
There were a couple short stretches above 7000 feet that never melted off. I was thinking it would have been difficult to cross if it had been colder and it had frozen solid/slippery
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Pdxmaestro
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by Pdxmaestro » October 12th, 2017, 11:28 am
Snow down to 3800feet. It's snowing up at skibowl / Tom Dick and Harry.
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romann
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by romann » October 24th, 2017, 10:04 pm
Snow's melting out nice on west side of St Helens (pic made at ~4700 feet)
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by romann » February 11th, 2018, 8:19 pm
We went to Central Oregon on 2/7 and stopped by at Twin Lakes trailhead (just over 4000'), checked the trail for couple hundred yards. The snow is less than knee deep, with 25% of ground bare. And that was on relatively flat ground - I expect less on the slopes. Way too little snow for February...
Skibowl resort had very little snow with bare ground showing & I'm pretty sure ski lifts were closed that day.
