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Sierra Nevada Alpine Conditions Report: Smoke & Rainbows

As the kids go back to school and we enter into late summer we wanted to offer some updates on conditions in the Sierra high country. Those of you who have been keeping up with any news in the last few weeks, or have been in the Sierra, will know that fire season is in full effect in California and the rest of the arid mountain west. The three fires that have impacted us here the most are the […]
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Sierra Nevada, CA Alpine Conditions Report:

Quick update to our last report on July 1, as things in the high country are changing quite rapidly. As we have been reporting, the Sierra remains in a steady stream of daily thunderstorm activity from monsoonal air flow and warm, moist air rising that condenses clouds, resulting in precipitation and electrical activity. Precipitation has been in the form of intense short or, in some cases, up to a couple sustained hours of rain or hail. High and […]
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Skiing Thy Myth & Majesty of Patagonia’s Cerro San Lorenzo

Patagonian is known as place of vast lands, emptiness and specially by its two icon peaks Cerro Torre and Fitz roy that both rounds the 3200/ 3300 mts, and are famous for their golden granite and ice mushrooms fantasy terrain that they offer. But usually, people dont talk much about the Skiing peaks in Patagonia, which are a golden jewell as well. First we have Cerro San Valentin barely touching the 4200 mts, in the middle of the Northern Patagonia Ice Cap, a mountain that holds a lot of bad weather for most of the […]
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Mt. Shasta, CA Season Summary & Outlook:

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Mt. Shasta is no stranger to setting new records. Our personal favorite, the February 1959 event which had the highest single snowstorm total of 189″/15+ feet sounds amazing right about now. 2014 was however the complete opposite. Severe drought has withered California and forest fires threaten much of the American west. The climbing season on Mt. Shasta started and is finishing earlier due to a snowpack that was approximately 30% […]
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