SierraDescents | 2018
December 23, 2018
Early Season Sierra
As Christmas nears, things look thin-ish along the 395 corridor from Lone Pine to Mammoth. Certainly there is snow to be found, and some skiable backcountry lines, but not a (more)
December 7, 2018
Kenneth Hahn
Here's the iconic Los Angeles-as-ski-town shot we've been waiting for, taken this morning from Kenneth Hahn State Park, with Mount Baldy's west face rising above the downtown (more)
November 29, 2018
Will There Be Snow, Cont’d…
I 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 in our forecast—maybe even enough to put (more)
November 10, 2018
The California Fires
The images defy description. Words flee the body when you stare at a cloud like this. What does it mean, when Mother Nature turns her fury upon us? Where is there to (more)
October 31, 2018
Halloween
I 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 (more)
October 2, 2018
Will There Be Snow?
Will there be snow? For Southern California skiers it is the eternal question. As leaves turn and temperatures drop, memories of winters past begin to swirl like snowflakes in (more)
August 8, 2018
At Least We Have The Beach
I am sorry—I just can't bring myself to write about the California wildfires. If you want quality coverage, there is of course the LA Times, but also Daniel Swain's twitter (more)
July 29, 2018
Interlude
Monsoon moisture flows every summer from Mexico to the American Southwest, driven by a persistent high pressure center that sits over the Four Corners region (and sometimes paired (more)
June 12, 2018
Summer Arrives
Seeing Mammoth Mountain this early June really hammers home how outstanding the skiing was last season. I think my 2017 June trip to Mammoth was one of my all-time (more)
April 29, 2018
Maybe Skip Onion Valley…
The 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—the parking lot and campground are (more)
April 17, 2018
Skiing Baden-Powell, 2018 Edition
You should have seen the look on my wife's face when I brought out my skis this past weekend. For the record, this was 100% Al's doing, not mine. He's the one who had a (more)
March 26, 2018
March Miracle for Mammoth
California has indeed gotten its Miracle March—parts of it, anyhow. Mammoth reports reports 17 feet of snow fell this month on the upper mountain (eleven at Main Lodge), (more)
March 14, 2018
SoCal Rain (and Snow?)
This is Bear Mountain's Bear Peak Cam, as of this morning, March 14, 2018, and...where the heck is the snow? Yes, March has finally shifted us from a dry to a reasonably wet (more)
February 11, 2018
Gorgonio & San Jacinto
Here's an aerial view of the north aspects of the San Bernardino Mountains and the San Jacintos, taken yesterday Feb 11, 2018. Gorgonio, at least, has more snow than I was (more)
January 20, 2018
SoCal Backcountry Report
Well. The cursed pattern persists. This most recent storm seems to be focusing its efforts on the San Bernardino Mountains, which might lead to 6" or so of new snow in the most (more)
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