Conditions - heat? Mosquitoes?

[mike a]

Hi all still snow on the roads up there, but can get to Chiquito Dome.

[DaveyTree]

Thanks for the update

[DaveyTree]

It was Paul's Bday on Saturday. We ran up to the valley and got on Bishop's Terrace. Such a fun route. We decided to move to a different area for a multi-pitch. As soon as we left the parking spot Paul said, "This is probably a bad idea." It was. We literally couldn't find another parking spot.  The falls were beautiful.

We decided to bail from the valley and give Fresno Dome a try away from crowds. Snow still blocks the road to the main trail head but we made Fresno Dome Camp Ground and Hawk Dome trail easy. Hiked up and ran up South Pillar....Never gets old.

A stop at South Gate on the way back made for a great day. The fish tacos are on point.

[susan]

Happy birthday Paul! Sounds like a great time! Agreed, that is a favorite route.

We might have run into you in the Valley except we were were west at Manure Pile. To be able to walk right up to it with no one ahead on Nutcracker again, rare, but we did that last weekend and back in January. A great first climb after a long hiatus I was tuckered after. Beautiful in the Valley, but yes way crowded. We went to our campsite early to park it wanting to escape traffic! Was worth it having lucked out with the views from our campsite of Half Dome and Washington Column.

[DaveyTree]

Nutcracker is a great route

[mike a]

Hi all snowed yesterday, drinking coffee looking out at Deadwood summit and Shuteye looks pretty white up there, snow level below 3000', so glad I climbed Sunday at Hawk Dome! I am sure by this weekend most of that snow will be gone! I am super psyched on the climbing season this year and go back up there this weekend, happy climbing Mike A.

[susan]

Hi. So nice to get out to Soyo again!

[DaveyTree]

Fire just reported at Speckerman Mountain which is 2.3 miles west of Fresno Dome and 1.4 miles west of Fresno Dome camp ground. Speckerman lies between 5S38 and 6S07 (Big Sandy turn by FD Camp Ground). Hope they get it taken care of quick. It will get smokey up there if it gets raging which will probably smoke out the Balls and possibly the northern parts of Shuteye.

Signal Peak has called in report of a smoke column on Rd 5S38 near Speckerman Mountain

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Sandy Webb scan/pushed as far as they can on 5S38 section 32. They can't see anything through the trees. Engines 313 and 314 and heading up on foot. Nothing seen yet.
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Sandy Webb scan/314, on top of Speckerman Ridgeline and seeing no smoke. Signal advised there is still smoke being seen but not as much as it was. 314 said personnel are walking up continuing to search. Signal said in reference to the granite face he located, it looks southwest from there.
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Sandy Webb scan/314 said hard to get to see through the canopy of trees. Signal tower said smoke is still coming up through the trees.
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Sandy Webb scan/Signal tower asking status. Fire fighter 314 said they located fire and on scene now. Confirmed he is the Meadow IC

[DaveyTree]

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Sandy Webb scan/Fire fighter trainee advised low activity, in the middle of a burn scar. Cause is a single lightening strike to a tree.
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Sandy Webb scan/Meadows IC, units 313, 315 and ?3 will be committed for a few hours. All others cancel response

[mungeclimber]

That's not the one feeding smoke to Mammoth for the last couple days. Bummer its a new one.

[DaveyTree]

Paul and Victor went up and did South Pillar on Saturday. They were stopped by the large snow drift where the road bends right by the creek. They walked the road from there. Paul reported very little snow on top with a drift at the base near Whiskey Bill I believe. They had no problem walking to SP and running up it.

[Gerard(Jerry)Jessurun]

Roger and I were at Hawk Dome last Sunday. Mosquitoes and Bumblebees.
Peregrines nesting on the West Face of Wamello......give them some peace.

[susan]

Nice way to say that Ger, about the birds and bees...  Same time frame, we noticed lots of bumblebees too around Jackass. Skeeters weren’t  bad yet, and that’s saying something since I’m their magnet. Glad to hear you guys got out there.