[pct-l] Trail conditions report from Tuolumne to South LakeTahoe

[ned at mountaineducation.org]

Trail conditions can change rapidly, indeed!

Before and after that rain/snow event of last week, the trailhead areas we 
were monitoring lost a foot and a half of snow, the creeks rose, and snow 
bridges were lost!


"Just remember, Be Careful out there!"

Ned Tibbits, Director
Mountain Education
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South Lake Tahoe, Ca. 96150
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jackie McDonnell" <yogihikes at gmail.com>
To: "Eric Lee" <saintgimp at hotmail.com>
Cc: <pct-l at backcountry.net>; <dchristofili at hotmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Trail conditions report from Tuolumne to South 
LakeTahoe


>I think that was David's point exactly:  trail conditions change quickly.
>
> yogi
> www.pcthandbook.com
>
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Eric Lee <saintgimp at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> David Christofili wrote:
>> >
>> Don't want to sound arrogant, because Don't Panic and Wing it are good
>> people and very strong hikers, but as long as you're with someone and/or
>> confident in your river crossing/navigation skills, then it's doable, and
>> the river/water levels should be peaking or already have peaked by now.
>> >
>>
>> It's interesting to watch people publish their trail reports each year 
>> and
>> other people react to them.  Conditions change so swiftly in the 
>> mountains
>> that we quite often have situations where person A says, "The trail is
>> impassible!  Don't try it!" while person B comes along a week later and
>> says, "I don't know what person A was smoking but the trail was fine."  I
>> suppose the lesson is to not pay attention to previous trail reports . . 
>> .
>> except for that strange thing in our brains that says any information is
>> better than no information at all.  I know I'm certainly gleaning every
>> scrap of information about the section I intend to hike in two weeks, 
>> even
>> though anything I read now is going to be wildly out of date by then.
>>
>> I'm sure that both Don't Panic/Wing It and David were correctly reporting
>> the conditions they saw.  It sounds to me like Don't Panic and Wing It 
>> hit
>> those rivers at just about the exact peak of the runoff while David hit
>> them
>> after the peak.  An extra foot or two of water level in an already-raging
>> river can easily spell the difference between passible with patience and
>> care vs. utterly impassible.
>>
>> Eric
>>
>>
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