Quantity, coverage, SNODAS, MODIS, historical and multi-year comparisonsĬreate an extensive hike plan easily configurable to your hiking style. Distances, days, resupply, access points, etcĬreate your own fully customizable gear list with weight, pricing and divisable by section.Įxhaustive resource for species ranges along your favorite trail. Includes amphibians, birds, mammals and reptiles. Hundreds of complete gear lists by those that walked the walk. Search for a journal, create a journal, add/edit an entry, configure your journal, EMail updates, integrated Google trail map, PLB locations and more Single elevation profile of your favorite trail. Print out your favorite trail to 6 feet high. Source for trail and site information or just talk about your favorite trail The Pacific Crest Trail snow report is designed to aid hikers in determining the best time to head into the mountains based on snow conditions. Each hikers skill-set and comfort level with these conditions will differ. The Pacific Crest Trail snow report uses SNODAS modeled snow data and MODIS reflectivity data. SNODAS gives us a good idea about the quantity of frozen water sitting on the ground, denoted by SWE (Snow Water Equivalence) in inches. Coverage is often poorly represented by SNODAS where snow cover is thin. The 8 day MODIS data, without regard for quantity, shows us what areas were snow covered at some point over the last 8 days. Cloud cover and darkness adversely affects MODIS detection significantly, hence we use the 8 day as opposed to the single day coverage. This is the only combined MODIS/SNODAS PCT snow map on the internet. Snow page updates November 1st - July 28th It's also the only Sentinel-2 data with trail alignments. The Postholer snow page focuses on snow on or near the trail, at trail elevation, not on snow condtions thousands of feet lower/higher and miles away from the trail. Ski resort snow reports and snow pack charts are a very poor representation of trail snow conditions.Tahoe seems like a long time ago. With the blacktop slicing through the desert before me, through my windshield-the sole, man-made interruption slashing through this barren, rugged landscape of brown, beige, and the occasional swipe of pink-I descend into the heat.Īround me, I can almost feel the thermals rising from the bottom of the valley, despite the fact that I’ve cranked the AC to the max. Ahead, sits Badwater Basin, the ultimate low-on this route, and in the entire country. It’s the end point of a trip that’s been filled with so many highs, all along the way. It’s the best road trip you’ve never heard of. A mostly two-lane highway unraveling across the quiet side of California, U.S. Route 395 stretches from South Lake Tahoe to Death Valley, rolling through forests, mountains, lakes, and sands, winding through the Eastern Sierra Nevada, the Mojave Desert, and across the flanks of Mount Whitney-the tallest peak in the continental United States. In between, you’ll find so much of what makes the open road special, from ghost towns to ski resorts to small villages with big surprises.Īnd the best part? You might just have the whole thing to yourself. Straddling the California-Nevada border, this mile-high body of water (altitude at the surface is more than 6,000 feet, and depths below can reach to 1,000 feet) is the largest alpine lake in North America. But, of course, it’s a lot more than that. Long a favorite getaway spot for city-bound Northern Californians, its cold waters and cool pines provide relief in the summer, with nearby slopes and trails hosting skiing, snowboarding, and snowshoeing in the winter. And on the Nevada side, it all feels a little like a scaled-down Vegas (albeit surrounded by forest). Start here, then turn south, down the 395, in search of gold. (Visit California/Myles McGuinness) The ghost town of Bodie. Once home to thousands of hopeful souls, this gold-rush town boomed in the second half of the 19th century, with hundreds of restaurants, some five-dozen saloons, and even a horse-racetrack keeping miners occupied. It was a true Old West place, with gunfights on the dusty streets of the red light district.
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