Entries filed under 'trail conditions'

Trail Conditions, 2012: Northwest Trails Will Be Among the Last to Melt Out This Summer

How are high-country trail conditions in the West in the summer of 2012? Largely open and snow-free everywhere except the Northwest—Washington and Oregon—where late snowfall and cool spring temperatures have left most high-country trails still clogged with snow for the second July in a row. In phone conversations with rangers, we at The REI Blog are hearing that high-elevation trails from California to Colorado are mostly melted out and open for travel. Rangers in the Sierra Nevada, in fact, ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on July 18, 2012 4:38 PM & Tagged national parks and trail conditions | permalink | Comments



Trail Reports: REI's Quick-Reference Guide for a Snowy Year in the West

It's corn, not snow, that's supposed to be knee-high by the 4th of July. Yet 2 weeks into summer lots of high-country wilderness trails in the West remain clogged with snow—the aftermath of a wacky La Nina winter that lasted deep into May and deposited near-record snow accumulations in mountains from the Rockies to the Pacific. Talk about a snow job: Ski areas from Mammoth Mountain in California's Eastern Sierra to Crystal Mountain southeast of Seattle were open on July 4. What's a hiker to do? ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on July 6, 2011 10:26 PM & Tagged Hiking, national forests, national parks, trail conditions and trail reports | permalink | Comments