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Website News:
November 2007
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La Niña is here! The 2007-2008 season brings the strongest La Niña conditions in the Pacific Ocean since 1999-2000, which
usually means much-above-normal snowfall for the Cascades (see the Cascades El Niño /
La Niña page for more info and stats).
The season commenced in early October with major snowfall in the mountains of BC, WA, and northern OR, providing excellent
early-season backcountry conditions. Then the heavy snowfall shifted north towards Alaska for much of November, and as of
late November, mountain snowpacks range from near-normal in SW BC, dropping to 50-80% of normal in WA and northern OR,
and then plummeting to 0-30% of normal in southern OR and northern CA.
I have finally resumed updating this website after a lengthy hiatus of over a year. Hopefully I can continue making
regular updates.
Work on my Skiing the Cascade Volcanoes guidebook had also been
halted since July 2005, but some progress has now resumed.
Through September 2007, I have skied or climbed over 180 routes on all 28 of the Cascade volcanoes included in the guidebook.
I would like to ski some more routes on the less-known volcanoes in southwestern BC, where information is quite limited, but
otherwise the research for the book is largely completed. Finishing the 330+ page, full-color, fully-typeset book is the major
remaining task, followed by getting it printed and sending it out the door. Publication sometime during 2008 appears likely.
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