[pct-l] Comparison photos

[wpseditor at charter.net]

Hi Rebecca, no harm in getting prepared for some serious snow. However, anticipating future snow levels is kinda like predicting the stock market: past performance is no guarantee of future gains. Every year is a new go round, within a range of extremes. We've seen some awesome snow years, and some frighteningly dry ones too, just in the last decade. The Sierra Nevada were buried, and the Cascades tinder dry a couple years ago. A fairly low snow year in the Sierra, and miles of PCT still rerouted to date when trails were washed out in the Cascades. We're rollin' the dice every year, for every mile. So. Figure out how to deal with new snow, old snow, high water, low water, fires, floods, bugs and bureaucracy. 
So getting ready involves learning some skills, anticipating situations, and planning solutions, all part of the fun of putting a trek together, and having it all come together without problems. It's kind of like a battle plan tho, looks great on paper but becomes a moot issue when you take your first step up the trail. 

Rick
Former '07 hopeful, looking at maybe '08 

---- Rebecca Mezoff <rlmezoff at cybermesa.com> wrote: 
> Thanks for the comparison photos David!  They were amazing.  I  
> realize 2005 was a high snow year, but the amount of it was sobering  
> to me.  I'm hoping to hike straight through next year but it looks  
> like I'd better get prepared for some serious snow hiking!  But the  
> photos also made me wish I could be there now... what a beautiful place.
> Rebecca,  PCT '07 hopeful
> 
> 
> On Oct 6, 2006, at 12:03 PM, David Toms wrote:
> 
> > After thru-hiking last year, Michele & I returned to the Sierra  
> > this autumn
> > ('fall' to most of you guys!) to hike from Mammoth to Whitney with 2
> > friends.  I've posted a set of comparison photos to show the  
> > difference
> > between early June 2005 and September 2006. Most of the photos are
> > near-identical shots.
> >
> > The photos are at:
> > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/davidtoms/Comparisons
> > If you hover over them, the link/image name appears in the bottom  
> > bar of
> > explorer. They're in alphabetical order rather than geographic  
> > order, but
> > its pretty obvious where most of them are!
> >
> > I was inspired to do this after seeing Scott Williamson's  
> > impressive slide
> > show last year - he has a much greater database of photos to draw  
> > on so
> > there's not much comparison, but hopefully mine will spark some of  
> > the same
> > amazement as to what a difference there is between one end of  
> > summer and the
> > other.
> >
> > Our original PCT photos are at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/davidtoms
> >
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