Still too sleepy and un-stoked from non-ski-sickness to actually get up and go somewhere on Saturday morning. So decision was made to try again by waking up at a trailhead Sunday morning.
The weather: 30% chance of showers overnight, sounding like it would clear up quickly on Sunday.
It poured rain hard at the Easy Pass trailhead all night. I slept better than I have in weeks in the back of my Subie.
The rain didn't stop until 8. A quick drive up to the pass revealed 5 inches of new wet snow at 5400ft, undoubtedly more higher up (1 inch liquid precip overnight on the sno-tels - bet you weather forecasters never saw that coming). Indecision set in... sure-bet May powder with the "crowds" at Blue Lake col, or significantly-revised original plan? As I drove back and forth changing my mind, the Blue Lake trailhead population of cars tripled.
Significantly-revised original plan eventally won out - but unfortunately the stoke lost out to poor visibility and fresh debris from overnight coming down from unseen heights... blah
Gas is now $3.50 a gallon - but I managed to squeeze 29.5 MPG out of my car, so the trip only cost me $37!
5 comments:
Il pleut comme un vache qui pisse!
Find your stoke, quick!
What happened to the Taco?
El Taco es muerto.
Correction :
Il pleut a boire debout.
The stoke is weak in me as well.
ne pas de stoke...quelle domage.
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