[pct-l] Lassen over Memorial Day weekend?

[Meridith Rosendahl]

Hey Piper!  Funny you should mention your La Porte to 36 portion of the
hike.  I just re-read (for the umpteenth time) Adventure and Magic where
you recounted that hike.  You make me smile, daughter.

And you're right, hikers have come though successfully with conditions much
worse than they are now.  I remember one recent year when there was a
terrific amount of snow in Lassen Park, and the only detour hikers had to
take was to cross Kings Creek higher up.  A few  who crossed at the trail
fell into the icy racing water.  This year would be comparatively easy!

Lucky to be
Piper's Mom

Message: 9
> Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 17:01:40 -0700
> From: Diane Soini <dianesoini at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Lassen over Memorial Day weekend?
> To: pct-l at backcountry.net
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> Hey Piper's Mom, this is Piper's Mom's Daughter.
>
> I remember in 2009 when I hiked through that you had cut out a
> newspaper article for me about Huff-and-Puff and his girlfriend
> hiking your area over Memorial Day. I guess that year there was a lot
> of snow but they found their way okay. The lady in the forest service
> office accused them (to me directly, not in the paper) of getting
> lost because they mentioned there were lots of blowdowns. They
> weren't lost. There WERE lots of blowdowns that year. I counted them
> the first day and got to 50 before I lost track. And I talked to Huff-
> and-Puff that early July when I was there and he said they didn't get
> lost.
>
> Anyway, they successfully went from Quincy-LaPorte Road to Highway 36
> which I believe is higher and more wild than Lassen, in a higher snow
> year, over Memorial Day, with a certain amount of struggling through
> snow but not so much that they got lost, if that means anything to
> anybody.
>
> Diane
>
> On May 22, 2013, at 10:00 AM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:
>
> > From: Meridith Rosendahl <meridith.rosendahl at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [pct-l] Lassen over Memorial Day weekend?
> >
> >>> Hiking south from where the pct crosses hwy 36 and headed for
> >>> Butt Mt,
> > I've
> > hit snow 7,000 and higher in May.  <<
> >
> > I see Butt Mountain every day: from my house, from Highway 36 on
> > the way to
> > Chester, etc.  There is patchy snow up there now, but not much and
> > less
> > every day.   Log trucks are using the road to Carter Meadow,
> > exiting onto
> > highway 32 just above Elam campground, but I have no idea at what
> > elevation
> > they are doing the logging.
> >
> > There is no snow at 7000 feet on the south/west facing slopes.
> > There is
> > some still on north/east facing slopes around here.
> >
> > Piper's Mom
>
>