Doesn't this year qualify as a "heavy" snow year in the gorge?
Maybe above average, but not much. In the Multnomah/Oneonta area, for example, you'll see lots of rocks/moss/ground. For comparison, in 1999 there was snow along the HCRH into May!
That was the year Mt Baker set a world record snowfall which I believe still stands, nearly 100 ft IIRC, and the Timberline trail on Hood never melted out. I bet they had a heck of a time at Multnomah Lodge figuring out what to do with all the snow they scooped up. Truck it to the river and dump it in?
For a minute there I thought you had found some super secret tunnel that I did not know about
As if I'd share that with anybody