Highway 108 open for the season!

Just kidding.

It's just that many forest roads in the PNW will be snow-covered until June, so I don't like you guys in CA very much.

101 and I-5 are all you need Steven. They both head south.

Snow is almost gone everywhere here.

Going to be a dry summer…

Steve

Hwy 4 over Ebbetts Pass also open now

If we chant, maybe they will open Tioga Pass as well.

For our distant forum members, these are the various mountain highway passes in the Sierra Nevada Range of California. They are closed for the winter months and then eventually open in the late spring. They tend to restrict our travel from the populated side on the west to the mostly unpopulated side on the east.

–B.G.–

The SF Chronicle had an article about Tioga Pass a couple of weeks ago predicting the pass would open on May 11.

Here's Tom Stienstra this morning talking about Sierra highway openings.

http://blog.sfgate.com/stienstra/2013/04/28/early-highway-openings-at-sierra-passes/

Well looks like its open a week earlier than last year… 120 is still closed though..

Stienstra's blog post is for April 28 – of last year!

— Rex

rex, all posts before my last were from last year. I just rebumped it cus its amazing its open even earlier than last. These roads usually open around memorial day weekend..

My bad, sorry.

Good news: the roads are opening early. Bad news: the roads are opening early in the third year of drought due to lack of snow.

Although some of the most popular rivers will be running pretty well this year:
http://www.sfgate.com/outdoors/article/On-Northern-California-rivers-good-forecast-for-5415555.php

And here’s Tom Stienstra’s sort-of update on road conditions for 2014:
http://blog.sfgate.com/stienstra/2014/04/14/yosemites-glacier-point-open-at-noon-monday/

— Rex

Closed roads keeps the crowds away.
Duane