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Caltrans Announces Sonora, Ebbetts, and Tioga Passes are now OPEN for the Summer

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The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) removed the winter snow, cleared the debris, made necessary repairs and then opened Sonora Pass at 2:00 pm on Thursday, May 3, 2018, and Ebbetts Pass at noon on Friday the fourth. Caltrans manages three trans-Sierra passes in the Central Sierra that are closed during winter and generally open in spring: Ebbetts Pass in […]

Steven Agar | May 7, 2018
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CalTrans Plans to Have ALL Sierra Nevada, CA Mountain Passes Open by May 25th!

CalTrans Press Release: Caltrans Crews Reach Pacific Crest Trail On Ebbetts Pass/SR-4 Check out the wall of snow that our crews are battling through on their way to the summit of Ebbetts Pass during the annual clearing of the Sierra Passes to get the routes open for the summer season. Caltrans Woodfords Area Lead Worker James Adams sent us the […]

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SnowBrains | April 27, 2018
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IMAGES: Caltrans Working Hard to Clear 9,624-Foot Sonora Pass Ready to Open for Memorial Day

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Caltrans reported on Monday 23rd April that by around noon the snow removal crew working on Highway 108 had cleared it to the Kennedy Meadows closure gate and swung open the Eagle Meadows gate. Officials say it appears that the 9,624-foot Sonora Pass summit will likely be ready to open by the traditional target date of Memorial Day Weekend, just […]

SnowBrains | April 25, 2018
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Caltrans Begin Work to Clear Sierra Passes for Memorial Day | Photos Show Progress Made on 8,050-Feet Ebbetts Pass

Camp Connell Area Maintenance Supervisor Mike Johnson made his way up Ebbetts Pass (SR-4) today and sent back some photos of his Caltrans crew working their way to the east end of Mosquito Lake at the Pacific Grade Summit. Mike reports that the snow is usually deepest at the old corrals at Sandy Meadows and that they didn’t expect to […]

Steven Agar | April 25, 2018
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Opening Updates: Tioga Pass, Sonora Pass, Ebbetts Pass, CA | June 9th, 2017

California holds some of the best spring backcountry skiing and riding in North America and that terrain can be made very accessible via our high mountain passes (10,000′ passes) being open and clear of snow.  Clearing that snow this record winter is no easy task.  Each of these passes listed below say over 200% of average snowfall this winter. 9,943′ Tioga […]

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SnowBrains | June 9, 2017
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CalTrans: Mountain Highway Pass Updates for Tioga Pass, Sonora Pass, Monitor Pass, more…

Caltrans District 9 Seasonal Pass Status by Caltrans District 9 Bishop – The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) District 9 has begun working on clearing snow, removing rocks, and repairing roads to its eight mountain passes. As work progresses, pedestrians, bicyclists, skiers, etc. are advised to stay out of these areas. Safety is our number one priority, for the public […]

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SnowBrains | April 21, 2017
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VIDEO: CalTrans Clearing Rockfall Debris on Tioga Pass, CA After Major Storm

Could do it with one well placed stick of dynamite drilled into the rock...

  California Transportation District 9, based out of Bishop California, is keeping SR 120 Tioga Pass closed to the public as they continue to clear debris and rockfall that litter the roadway due to the major storm that just passed through California. The storm brought heavy rain and snowfall at higher elevations which caused some extremely large boulders to fall on […]

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Dylan Cautela | October 20, 2016
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