Subdeacon Joe Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 Soda Springs, Sunday 10/21 Same camera, Monday, 10/22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 L@@Ks like winter, Joe. We have been flirting with snow in the Cascades for the last couple of days. Cold front from Alaska moved in on us. But I doubt that we will get the accumulation that you folks in the Sierra's get. I do expect a bit of snowfall this year in the local environs, however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted October 22, 2012 Author Share Posted October 22, 2012 Yeah, same storm, been watching it move in. I'm hoping for a hard winter, Badger. I remember seeing a photo from in January of one of the teams out to measure the snow pack, about a dozen people with the tubes for coring out samples, gathered around a patch of snow in the shade of trees, couldn't have been over an inch deep. And it should have been several feet there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 Those snow packs can be worrisome at times. Especially when you realize that is what you will be drinking in August. I recall a trip that my wife and I made to Palm Springs for a winter vacation. On the plane ride back we flew over the Sierras and you could see the deep snow below. I would guess that we were probably no more than three thousand feet above the tree tops. You could see them quite clearly. The Cascades do not usually get that much and the melt seem to be slower. Perhaps because of the climate and location further north. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clay Mosby Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 After hearing about 17 semi's getting stuck trying to get over Donner, I'm even more glad to not be driving OTR anymore! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 Lookin' good! As Badger MC says, we've had a bit this last weekend in the Cascades, too. I'm a fanatic Nordic skier and I always have my fingers crossed for an early and long season. I go out every weekend as soon as there is enough snow. I've skied twice over the years at Royal Gorge, right there at Soda Springs. One of the trips I stayed at Rainbow Lodge; a great place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 I wish you all the snow and fun you can handle, Red. Just keep it in the mountains. That serves me in two way. I get water to drink in the HOT ? summer and I get water in the rivers for some fly fishing. A real win win for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 Joe, is that the Soda Springs headin' up toward Pillsbury...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 I wish you all the snow and fun you can handle, Red. Just keep it in the mountains. I concur. But it can be straw hat weather up there, too: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v446/edwinskill/P1000248.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apache Hawk 60642 Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 After hearing about 17 semi's getting stuck trying to get over Donner, I'm even more glad to not be driving OTR anymore! You an me both Clay ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted October 23, 2012 Author Share Posted October 23, 2012 Joe, is that the Soda Springs headin' up toward Pillsbury...? Nope. It's the one by the Devil's Postpile National Monument . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Devil's Postpile sounds like some place I would want to go for a vacation. I don't care if it is a National Monument. Now the folks over in New Mexico got it right. Angel Fire is a nice place.......in summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted October 23, 2012 Author Share Posted October 23, 2012 DUH! A link to the page I lifted the photo from: http://tenaya.ucsd.edu/tioga/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 That don't look like summer to me, Joe. And I am sure we ain't in Kansas any more. Right Toto? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Steel Duke Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 I'd love that snow here in Indiana, this 80 degree fall is killing our Fall archery season for Deer! BSD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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