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Highway 108 open for the season!

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Apr 26, 2013 at 7:55 pm #1302240

Jason G
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@jasong
Locale: iceberg lake

Good news for us bay area people. Yes 120 would be more ideal but this works for me to access the eastern sierra. saves the $20 pass through fee too.

This highway information is the latest reported as of Friday, April 26, 2013 at 19:51 .

SR 108
[IN THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA AREA & SIERRA NEVADA]
NO TRAFFIC RESTRICTIONS ARE REPORTED FOR THIS AREA.

Apr 26, 2013 at 8:02 pm #1980934

Steven Paris
BPL Member

@saparisor
Locale: Pacific Northwest

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.

Apr 26, 2013 at 8:05 pm #1980936

Ken Thompson
BPL Member

@here
Locale: Right there

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

Snow is almost gone everywhere here.

Apr 26, 2013 at 8:46 pm #1980944

Steve B
BPL Member

@geokite
Locale: Southern California

Going to be a dry summer…

Steve

Apr 27, 2013 at 3:55 pm #1981120

Paul McLaughlin
BPL Member

@paul-1

Hwy 4 over Ebbetts Pass also open now

Apr 27, 2013 at 5:25 pm #1981145

Bob Gross
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@b-g-2-2
Locale: Silicon Valley

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.–

Apr 27, 2013 at 8:48 pm #1981202

Joe Lynch
BPL Member

@rushfan
Locale: Northern California

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

Apr 28, 2013 at 3:06 pm #1981365

Joe Lynch
BPL Member

@rushfan
Locale: Northern California

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/

Apr 18, 2014 at 1:37 pm #2094386

Jason G
BPL Member

@jasong
Locale: iceberg lake

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

Apr 18, 2014 at 4:49 pm #2094439

Rex Sanders
BPL Member

@rex

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

— Rex

Apr 18, 2014 at 5:40 pm #2094450

Jason G
BPL Member

@jasong
Locale: iceberg lake

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..

Apr 20, 2014 at 10:55 am #2094783

Rex Sanders
BPL Member

@rex

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

Apr 21, 2014 at 11:00 am #2094981

USA Duane Hall
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@hikerduane
Locale: Extreme northern Sierra Nevada

Closed roads keeps the crowds away.
Duane
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