Snow level at 4,500 - 5,000. Snowed last night. Hurry!!
Daniel
Snowing in Washington
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In Sept., you can expect snow at 5,000 ft. and above every time a “disturbance” comes through, but it will melt off fast. Don’t panic yet! These are lackluster and disorganized storm systems, not the usual late fall/winter type storms.
On the other hand, the Northwest has had an unusually cool summer, with one of these “disturbances” almost every weekend. So it may be that the winter storms will begin early. Even with the worst case scenario, you folks should have at least another month. Good luck!
grannyhiker
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It is snowing in Washington?? Ahh but not in Eastern Washington (the side that doesn’t count) Here the weather for hiking is about prefect.
Knocked out another 16 miles in the Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness on Saturday with wonderful weather.
However still looking for that ever elusive Hiking Eastsider who has weekend off to hit the trails with.
Happy Hikes,
SweetAss
SweetAss03
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No kidding. Just finished my PCT hike in Manning thursday evening, and was lucky to get out when I did. Not to sound too dramatic, maybe I was caught off guard, but a nasty storm came in. 6 inches of snow at 6000-7000 ft. High winds, rain below 5000 and cold! In the 20’s my last couple nights. Was hypothermic my last day.
I wish much luck to all those stil out there. Hope the weather holds for a few weeks, but things don’t look good
A-Train
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Sorry about my recent overly-optomistic post! The NWS forecasts for the next 10 days look pretty awful. There is 16" of snow reported on Harts Pass today. I really feel for those through-hikers who are having to quit so close to the goal! But unless you are seriously equipped for winter conditions or are willing to wait around to see if some kind of Indian summer is going to arrive about mid-October, quitting may be your only option. It does look as though our winter “monsoon” has arrived in the Pacific Northwest. In the 30 years I’ve lived out here, this is definitely the earliest we’ve gotten these serious, winter-type storm systems. They usually don’t start until mid- to late October, and sometimes they’ve held off until November. Not this year!
grannyhiker