
Early Season Sierra
As Christmas nears, things look thin-ish along the 395 corridor from Lone Pine to Mammoth (more...)...
Posted in Current Conditions | 6 CommentsAs Christmas nears, things look thin-ish along the 395 corridor from Lone Pine to Mammoth (more...)...
Posted in Current Conditions | 6 CommentsHere’s the iconic Los Angeles-as-ski-town shot we’ve been waiting for, taken this morning from Kenneth Hahn (more...)...
Posted in Current Conditions | 4 CommentsI hesitate to call attention to this in case it’s just a figment of my imagination, but there does appear to be a little bit of snow (more...)...
Posted in Current Conditions | 13 CommentsThe images defy description. Words flee the body when you stare at a cloud like this (more...)...
Posted in Current Conditions | 2 CommentsI know Halloween is a ghosts and goblins holiday, but for me it’s snow time. Even here in the basin leaves are falling, and high country snow is either here or near. For me Halloween marks the start of winter (more...)...
Posted in Musings | 2 CommentsWill there be snow? For Southern California skiers it is the eternal question (more...)...
Posted in Musings | 2 CommentsI am sorry—I just can’t bring myself to write about the California wildfires. If you want quality coverage (more...)...
Posted in California | 3 CommentsMonsoon moisture flows every summer from Mexico to the American Southwest, driven by (more...)...
Posted in summer | 1 CommentSeeing Mammoth Mountain this early June really hammers home how outstanding the skiing was last season (more...)...
Posted in Current Conditions | 0 CommentsThe good news is the road is open all the way to the parking lot at Onion Valley. The bad news is that’s because there’s no snow up there (more...)...
Posted in Current Conditions | 3 CommentsWhen there is snow, SierraDescents is Andy Lewicky's California backcountry skiing and mountaineering website. Without snow, sierradescents becomes an ill-tempered hiking and climbing blog.
Pray for snow.
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