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CF
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Apr 10, 2008 - 06:29pm PT
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May 23, the friday of the big weekend as there is only 40" of snow in tm
"The latest conditions report from the east side is that Highway 120 has melted out from the road closure gate outside of Lee Vining up to the Warren Fork of Lee Vining Creek, with patches of snow from Warren Fork up to Ellery Lake. Skiers coming in from the east side should be prepared to walk the first four to five miles of road above the gate before they hit the good snow near Ellery Lake. Skiers coming up the Snow Creek trail from the west side report that the snow line begins just above the top of the switchbacks; everything below that level has melted out. "
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drc
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Apr 10, 2008 - 07:34pm PT
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Inside scoop:
My girlfriend works for a tour agency and they are scheduling bus tours over Tioga Pass for Memorial Day Weekend.
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Fletcher
Trad climber
Varied locales along the time and space continuum
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Apr 10, 2008 - 07:39pm PT
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OK, I'll play this Jeopardy style: May 22nd.
Fletch
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jahil
climber
santa cruz, ca
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Apr 10, 2008 - 07:45pm PT
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speaking of mosquitos, when do the little buggers typically die out
by in the Meadows.
steve
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Nefarius
Big Wall climber
Fresno, CA
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Apr 10, 2008 - 07:47pm PT
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I'm gonna go with Chris on this. May 23rd. "Just in time".
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hossjulia
Trad climber
Eastside
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Apr 10, 2008 - 09:11pm PT
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I've been thinking about this all day. (that's how boring my soon-to-be-over job is) and realized I better plan on having myself up there by May 1. May 23 sounds about right. I looked at the opening date chart and in the past 10 years, it's been open by then 7 times.
But for the sake of argument, I'll go with May 22, in the afternoon.
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Tahoe climber
Trad climber
a dark-green forester out west
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Apr 15, 2008 - 05:23pm PT
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oh, do they have mosquitos in the meadows?
Just kidding.
It's going to be Mosquito Mordor this June!
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Mimi
climber
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Apr 15, 2008 - 05:56pm PT
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The frogs and toads will be very happy this spring/summer.
I vote for Memorial Weekend; the NPS wants that revenue.
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bearbnz
Trad climber
East Side, California
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Apr 16, 2008 - 06:03pm PT
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I don't know if anything is happening in the Park yet, but Caltrans started on 120 east westbound on Monday, and they had made it to Ellery Lake as of yesterday afternoon, so the road should be open up to the Park Entrance maybe by the end of the week.
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hulk
climber
curry
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Apr 16, 2008 - 07:29pm PT
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we are scheduled to have gasaneering open on the may 22nd.
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Domingo
Trad climber
El Portal, CA
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Apr 16, 2008 - 07:32pm PT
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In Tuolumne Meadows, you can count on the mosquitoes mostly being gone by November.
Seriously.
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billygoat
climber
3hrs to El Cap Meadow, 1.25hrs Pinns, 42min Castle
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Apr 18, 2008 - 01:51pm PT
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Looking at the list of past opening dates is suggestive--7 of the last 10 years, the date has been in May (even with the new plowing rules, they still get it done). Compared to those years, this certainly isn't a very big year. And, so far, it's been a warm spring. Of course, a big storm could set everything off, but it doesn't look like there's one in the works at this point. I predict May 22 at the latest. But it wouldn't surprise me if it was a week earlier.
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Joe
Social climber
Santa Cruz Mountains/Los Gatos
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Apr 18, 2008 - 03:11pm PT
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"Bicycle reconnaissance is required. I would volunteer, but I'm too far away.
Joe? ;D"
hey anna, still one of the finest bike rides I've ever done. heading up the partially closed tioga on a memorial day weekend with snow banks starting to resemble the narrows toward the top and not a soul in sight. come on back and we'll do it again. I'm betting on a late opening this year.
so far, no mosquitoes in the valley, but the ants are for real.
j
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jahil
climber
santa cruz, ca
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Apr 18, 2008 - 03:47pm PT
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Ants! The little buggers were everywhere on. But at night they were eclipsed by the enormous millipedes. Anyone got any information on them. We had no clue as if they were poison spewing monsters, or benign as hamsters.
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xtrmecat
Trad climber
Kalispell, Montanagonia
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Apr 18, 2008 - 05:27pm PT
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I need to use this route on May 11th so I think it will open by the 17th.
Bob
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Ed Bannister
Mountain climber
Riverside, CA
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Apr 18, 2008 - 05:38pm PT
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and the latest opening in memory?
August 10, 1968
and it was still like driving through a wall of 12' high snow and ice on both sides of the road.
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nita
climber
chica from chico, I don't claim to be a daisy
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Apr 18, 2008 - 06:22pm PT
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I can't beat 1968, but in the 80's?? It was a July 4th weekend opening. This was how my tent frame looked from the heavy snow.
Flouride, looks like your going to be right. melting fast.
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