[pct-l] Interactive snow depth chart

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good evening, Eugene,



While I seldom meet an info-map that I don’t like, this one seems less
useful than the others I like to watch.  My main complaint is that it
nominally displays snow water equivalent in inches, which doesn’t pass the
all-important, “So what?” test.  Water equivalent is probably useful to
water managers but without lots of study and cross-reference it won’t tell
us how existing conditions compare to an average or some year to which we
can relate.



I prefer  http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/products/PLOT_SWC.2010.pdf  for
the Sierras, and http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/cgibin/westsnow.pl for the
west in general.



Thanks for passing it along,



Steel-Eye

Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT – 1965

http://www.trailjournals.com/steel-eye

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On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Eugene <atetuna at hotmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov/interactive/html/map.html
>
> I saw that on Whiteblaze.  I may be useful to early starte...err, make
> that all hikers this year.
>
> Eugene
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