[pct-l] Fwd: re: conditions So of Belden...

[AsABat]

Once Lassen starts to open up there are sometimes current trail conditions
at
http://www.nps.gov/lavo/planyourvisit/trail_conditions.htm .
The PCT is near the bottom of the page.

AsABat

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Georgi Heitman <bobbnweav at gmail.com> wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Georgi Heitman <bobbnweav at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 4:35 PM
> Subject: So of Belden...
> To: hetchhetchyman at aol.com
>
>
> Maintenance on the trail to the south, I can't answer to...but even in
> heavy
> late snow years...it clears off much sooner than north of Belden does.
>  It's
> for the most part, due to the terrain's ability to get spring
> sunshine...remembering that 'spring' doesn't always reach the 'high'
> country
> til early June.   With the weather we've had, it snowed at Old Station off
> and on all day Easter and yesterday as well as several inches more last
> night, by the way, getting out of Belden to the north could be a crap shoot
> before the last week in June...in '06, the first folks thru Lassen Nat'l
> Pk.
> and into Belden were southbound and they left here on the 4th of July.
>  That
> was the year that Easter was mid-April, and we woke up that morning to 3
> 1/2
> feet of fresh snow which finally quit that afternoon at 4 feet.  It equated
> to 17 feet of new stuff over the park summit, and the night's were cold
> enough, in spite of warm, sunny days down here at 4550' that there was very
> little melt off for about 6 to 7 weeks...streams were roaring when hikers
> started making it over the trail summit...in fact folk were getting thru
> the
> High Sierra before anyone made it between Belden and Castle Crags St Pk to
> our north.  The only stretch that was really open was between here and a
> bit
> north of Burney Falls St. Pk.  Plan accordingly, especially anyone thinking
> of section hiking...altho the Hat Creek Rim should be open.  Weather up
> there is especially nasty in a storm however, as some folks found out
> during
> a really ugly Memorial Day weekend.
> Happy Trails,
> FireFly from
> The Hideaway at Old Station
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