hiking in the snow and rain
I was going to post some pictures, but Flickr is broken. )-:
Oh wait. I can add them directly in Blogger, but I just can't control the size. . .
Oh, nope. It looks like the whole internet is busted.
Hm. . . Picture, if you will, a frozen lake. Around that lake are trees and rocky mountains and snow and snow and --
Ah ha! Blogger finally loaded the picture!
This is Heather Lake, with an arm of Mt Pilchuck behind. We heard avalanches from several directions. Hillary says she saw an avalanche, but she also said she saw a bear across the lake that was actually a little tree. . . (-:
It rained the whole time we were on the trail. Some trees block the rain better than others. We found a nice one to admire the lake and mountains from.
Hey! Flickr finally started working again.
The other half of the lake:
The snow level was around 2200', just in case you were curious.
A stump down in the not-snowy section of trail:
1 comment:
FYI, the snow level in the Cascades (of old snow in the mountains) goes up about 1000 feet a month in the spring and early summer. Furthermore, I estimate that the snow melts at an average of 5 feet per month during April-August. Based on your data point of 2200 feet snow level on April 8, we should expect May 8 - 3200', June 8 - 4200', July 8 - 5200', Aug 8 - 6200', Sep 8 - 7200'. Then it starts snowing again.
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