I asked Flaskman to grab some images of the top on Monday. Looking good with more footage to come Friday night into the middle of next week. Tops going to be closed for another week is my take.

Chris Tomer's latest report is calling for 13" with more above tree line for Mammoth. Finger's crossed. But wow, look at Steven's Pass and Baker. Crazy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMZ3pA75-7s

Message on Mammoth's site: All mountain operations are suspended today due to high avalanche danger. Wow.

Now that 395 bypasses Olancha, is it destined to become another Inyo county ghost town? Other than the Jerky store and the Mobil station, there was never much there to begin with. I remember the old diner, but that closed years ago. Back in the 00s, the Mobil station used to be my first stop for gas when making the drive north.

I'm sure you've all seen the snow fences on 203 on the outskirts of town, and perhaps you've also seen the ones on 395 just north of the 203. I was always under the impression that they were designed to capture snow in front of the fence, but this video explains how they work. The open fences disrupt the wind and causes the snow to mound behind the fence. Kinda cool video from an engineering perspective. The video specifically talks about Wyoming snow fences but I'm guessing they're all functionally the same. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL1_9jMKjO0