#snowpacked

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Fear and Photography in Lassen Volcanic National Park

Exploring the Beauty of a Lesser-Visited National Park

The last patches of snowpack remain in the Painted Dunes of Lassen Volcanic National Park

(© Kevin D. Jordan)

Volcanic Dunes and past lava flow intermingle in Lassen Volcanic National Park

[road-kill-eater]

What are your top 5 animals?

1) wolverine

2) tied between blacktail deer/elk/caribou

3) brown bear

4) coho salmon

5) harbor seal

[pcttrailsidereader]

Despite It All...

Despite the seemingly snowy winter in the west Washington state remains in a drought according to the Natural Resources Conservation Service. This organization monitors and publishes reports on, among other things, the water supply for Washington. According to the NRCS's latest report published May 1, statewide snowpack was 71% of normal. Furthermore, most areas in the state are in snow drought except for the area near Mount Saint Helens.

In the North Cascades the snow appears to be melting slowly. The report indicates this could could help keep streamflows higher in the spring and summer. Nevertheless the runoff will likely still be lower than normal. The state declared a statewide drought on April 16.

What does this mean for hikers in the Cascades? There is no clear answer except to be prepared. Carrying a little more water may be a prudent strategy as some streams and creeklets may be drier than normal. The greater risk is fire. We know a very early fire season started over a month ago in northern Alberta and British Columbia. It would not be welcome nor would it be surprising to experience an early fire season in the Cascades. Being prepared for such events includes making sure friends and family know where you are going and when you plan to return. Signing in and out at trailheads and/or ranger stations help keep hikers safe and lessens the risk for first responders in the event hikers are caught in or near a fire.

The past few years have seen PCT hikers get so close but yet so far from the northern terminus due to fires in the North Cascades that ultimately closed the trail in September and October. Some potential exists as the region transitions from an El Niño climate pattern to La Niña, which typically means wetter weather in the Northwest from mid-June to early-July. That could provide some buffer for the dry summer, however no one can be sure.

So, despite what seemed like, felt like, looked like a wet winter in Washington maybe wasn't all it was cracked up to be. Our fingers are crossed for a summer that is not remembered for fire and smoke but more for making great memories in the outdoors.

[curtailedwhale]

Seeing a few too many "this should be a required class in school" posts.

There are other, better, places to learn some things.

[midwesternartlovertraveler]

View of the Uinta Mountains, from Lonetree, Wyoming, June 7, 2024 https://midwesternartlovertraveler.tumblr.com/

[wolfcomix]

deer mountain, Ketchikan, Alaska

[thechembow]

More Snow in California's Mountains, Great News for our Water

Apr. 2, 2025

We got another two inches of snow overnight and a little more throughout the day here in Southern California. It melted off by afternoon and the snow didn't stick for the rest of the day. We're already having new springtime grass coming in and the snow is helping saturate the earth with water.

The Sierras got a lot more snow than we did with the most at Sugar Bowl Resort, 44 inches from March 31 through April 2,

California has also seen a milestone that is significant enough to make it difficult to fake a drought this year. For the third straight year, we are at average snowpack as of April 1. This hasn't happened in 25 years, and we know that it's because of the past ten years of strategic orgonite gifting throughout California and the US west. We are currently at 96% of average with a ways to go in the season.

The Central Sierra Snow Lab at Donner Summit measured 25.5 inches of snow with this storm, for a total of 341 inches for the water year as of April 1. That is 103% of the median snowfall for this date.

The orgonite gifting of the last three years has included some very important places for breaking down blockages to winter weather in the west. The major cities gifted that influenced this weather were Salt Lake City in 2022; Denver, Albuquerque, and Tucson in 2023, and Boise in 2024. That is a lot of orgonite gifted and a lot of cell towers busted, since we grid entire cities and the roads in between.

The winters of 2023 and 2024 were blockbuster winters as well. We had an astounding 5.5 feet of snow in Southern California mountains back in Feb. 2023, which no one here was prepared for (except us because we made it happen).

[santaclaralocalnews]

The California Department of Water Resources announced Friday that the statewide Sierra Nevada snowpack is at 90% of average for this date, though precipitation levels in Southern California have been far lower than those in the northern part of the state. The department conducted its monthly manual snowpack measurement Friday at Phillips Station in El Dorado County, about 90 miles east of Sacramento. Read complete news at svvoice.com.

[michaelgabrill]

New NASA Instrument for Studying Snowpack Completes Airborne Testing

Summer heat has significant effects in the mountainous regions of the western United States. Melted snow washes from snowy peaks into the rivers, reservoirs, and streams that supply millions of Americans with freshwater—as much as 75% of the annual freshwater supply for some states. But as climate change brings winter temperatures to new highs, these […] from NASA https://ift.tt/0tcq4dm

[pcttrailsidereader]

This photo of Mt. San Jacinto was taken on January 15, 2024. Rather alarmingly, there is no (zero, nada, naught, scratch, zilch, zip, bupkis) snow visible on the mountain. Its lofty neighbor to the north, Mt. San Gorgonio, is no better off. While things are improving in northern California, the Southern California PCT is snow-free.

[miggylol]

Every window in my house is open to enjoy this time before The Rain returns

[loveofdetail]

i sort of wish i'd gotten into The Terror sooner. However. watching it at the tail end of my most anhedonic, most Goin Through It, most seasonal + regular depression curbstomping me to pulp series of months in a loooooooong time... and taking all that not-even-sad-any-more-just-fully-numb-and-not-even-hoping-for-my-feelings-to-come-back-anytime-soon energy and ritualizing it by waiting until i was home alone on the longest night of the year and turning off all the lights in my house in order to take in the symbolically charged & spiritually calamitous precipitous decline contained in those final four episodes... ummmm... it'll never leave me

[wolfcomix]

riding the thermals to three thousand feet

[antstackinc]

AntStack’s Frontend Bundlers Minified

Frontend web development has truly evolved at an extremely rapid rate, it’s pretty impressive that we have moved from writing HTML to almost no HTML at all and mostly writing JavaScript (JSX)! All that advancement is made smooth and possible by programs working behind the scenes to take our code and give it to the world, Bundlers give us a lot however no one talks much about them, lets ‘minify’ these complex programs and make sense of how they have evolved over the years and helped us while also seeing their state today.

[delicatelysublimeforester]

Seeking Spring's Secrets: Intriguing Intricacies