2020 Snow Level

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Re: 2020 Snow Level

Post by drm » October 30th, 2020, 5:52 am

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October 29th, 2020, 3:54 pm
Don, our paths crossed again! You should have left a note on my windshield. Somebody else was on Riley; I left the first prints, there were others when i started down the trail a little before sunset.
That would have been me. I made it up to the Riley Creek crossing of the PCT, hung out for an hour or so around lunch time at the nice camp just above the PCT.

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Re: 2020 Snow Level

Post by Chip Down » November 2nd, 2020, 11:27 pm

Here's a pair of pics of a little lake on the NW side of Adams, about 6500'.
The snowy pic is from a couple weeks ago. The bare pic was taken today.
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Re: 2020 Snow Level

Post by hiking67 » November 6th, 2020, 9:40 pm

Cool to see.

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Re: 2020 Snow Level

Post by Kay Burton » November 17th, 2020, 6:02 am

Chip Down wrote:
November 2nd, 2020, 11:27 pm
Here's a pair of pics of a little lake on the NW side of Adams, about 6500'.
The snowy pic is from a couple weeks ago. The bare pic was taken today.
Very beautiful view. And it's beautiful without snow, but with snow it's generally a fairy tale. I already want winter, snowy and with fresh frosty air. I think over the past year we have earned a bit of a fairy tale and a Christmas mood.

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Re: 2020 Snow Level

Post by drm » November 17th, 2020, 8:02 am

Chip Down wrote:
November 2nd, 2020, 11:27 pm
Here's a pair of pics of a little lake on the NW side of Adams, about 6500'.
The snowy pic is from a couple weeks ago. The bare pic was taken today.
Looking at the dry pond on the left of this shot of my dinner party guests from Labor Day weekend, appears to be the same place. I think it was about 6500'.
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Re: 2020 Snow Level

Post by Don Nelsen » November 17th, 2020, 12:40 pm

Small world!

Here's that same lake on Oct. 22nd. My GPS shows it at 6,478'. The maps I have don't show it at all.

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Re: 2020 Snow Level

Post by Chip Down » November 17th, 2020, 6:42 pm

Interesting that an obscure pond way off-trail, un-named, un-mapped, has been visited by drm + Don + Chip in sep/oct. The three of us were crossing tracks so many times in that period, it's amazing we never saw each other (just footprints in snow and tire tracks in frost).

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Re: 2020 Snow Level

Post by drm » November 18th, 2020, 6:57 am

Chip Down wrote:
November 17th, 2020, 6:42 pm
Interesting that an obscure pond way off-trail, un-named, un-mapped, has been visited by drm + Don + Chip in sep/oct. The three of us were crossing tracks so many times in that period, it's amazing we never saw each other (just footprints in snow and tire tracks in frost).
I think the lay of the land, the shape, pushes hikers who naturally are looking for the easiest path to that ravine/valley just below. So it's a natural thing if you are on the XC route between Adams Creek on the PCT and High Camp. Hey - a large herd of goats were there too - it must be a natural!

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Re: 2020 Snow Level

Post by Chip Down » November 18th, 2020, 8:38 am

Ah, interesting observation. I went looking for the pond because I spotted it when high on an Adams Glacier moraine, and decided to check it out on the way down. And the second day I specifically went looking for it just because I thought it would be neat to see it in summer mode.

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Re: 2020 Snow Level

Post by Chip Down » November 21st, 2020, 1:03 am

I was in the Defiance neighborhood today, with a 3800' goal. Made it, but barely. At times, I was sinking up to crotch. It wasn't too bad below 3600'.

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