Winter should be just around the corner – or at least what passes for winter here in coastal central California. It has recently gotten cold (I can hear the midwesterners laughing outloud, “You call that cold!?”) but we still haven’t seen much in the way of winter-type storms here. Oddly, we had a series of early Pacific storms in late September and October – they closed passes in the Sierra for a few days and caused my talusdancers and me to cancel our annual mid-October Final Sierra Pack Trip Before The Snow Falls because, well, the snow had already fallen. But since then we’ve only had maybe one real storm.
But there is some news suggesting that something resembling winter is coming to the Sierra. First, and not unexpectedly, Tioga Pass Road over the Sierra crest in Yosemite was finally closed for the season by the last storm. (Now the annual guessing game can begin – when will it open?) And I saw a report today at The Little Red Tent about the preparations going on at Yosemite’s historic Badger Pass ski area. Although it isn’t open yet, I’m quite certain that I saw people on skis in those photos…
December 11, 2007
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Winter Thoughts… and Evidence?
Winter should be just around the corner – or at least what passes for winter here in coastal central California. It has recently gotten cold (I can hear the midwesterners laughing outloud, “You call that cold!?”) but we still haven’t seen much in the way of winter-type storms here. Oddly, we had a series of early Pacific storms in late September and October – they closed passes in the Sierra for a few days and caused my talusdancers and me to cancel our annual mid-October Final Sierra Pack Trip Before The Snow Falls because, well, the snow had already fallen. But since then we’ve only had maybe one real storm.
But there is some news suggesting that something resembling winter is coming to the Sierra. First, and not unexpectedly, Tioga Pass Road over the Sierra crest in Yosemite was finally closed for the season by the last storm. (Now the annual guessing game can begin – when will it open?) And I saw a report today at The Little Red Tent about the preparations going on at Yosemite’s historic Badger Pass ski area. Although it isn’t open yet, I’m quite certain that I saw people on skis in those photos…
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December 11, 2007 Posted by gdanmitchell | Commentary | 2 Comments