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09-15-2021, 09:10 AM #5226
I was just kidding - no one is going to close the forest due to climate change or whatever, but just to refresh your recollection....
Better planning for closures would be great. Along with a few billion extra in funding to better reduce fire hazard, carry out more control burns, plan for and execute a staged closure (this idea of yours is very good, but just needs planning and funding), etc.
I suppose you could be right about avalanche closures. Then again, Caldor was 200,000+ acres and threatened to incinerate Xmas Valley, Meyers, and the City of South Lake Tahoe. Ain't no avalanche cycle that can do anything close to that.Last edited by meter-man; 09-15-2021 at 08:47 PM.
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09-15-2021, 09:47 AM #5227
Maybe if . . .
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09-15-2021, 09:49 AM #5228Banned
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Palpitations Tahoe is fun every day except for deep days. I have more fun elsewhere during storms.
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09-15-2021, 10:05 AM #5229VALLEJO, Calif., — Sept. 14, 2021. The USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region will end the regional closure order affecting National Forests in California at 11:59 pm on Wednesday, Sept. 15, two days prior to the original end date of Sept. 17. However, forest-wide closures will remain in place and be extended until midnight on September 22nd on the Los Padres, Angeles, San Bernardino, and Cleveland National Forests in Southern California due to local weather and fire factors, as well as a temporary strain on firefighting resources supporting large fires in other areas of the state.
In addition to the four National Forests that will remain closed in Southern California, some National Forest System lands throughout the state will be closed under local closure orders in areas of ongoing wildfires to ensure public safety. This includes the Eldorado National Forest in Northern California, which has a forest closure order until Sept. 30.
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09-15-2021, 10:06 AM #5230
If we're gonna play I'll go with 'within 7 years', although it requires huge storms that may or may not come. But I do think there will be a time when the rose goes all black and the FS effects some sort of closure.
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09-15-2021, 10:14 AM #5231Registered User
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I can't imagine avalanche closures ever happening. If they did, it would also imply "safe" when they don't close. I doubt FS lawyers would agree to that.
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09-15-2021, 10:21 AM #5232
Kids (and I) skied Rose from 2010 - 2017.....then last 4 season in Colorado. Boys (11-14) are ready/excited to see Squaw/PT. We will see.
--I was a Squaw guy 97-2010....and met my wife on Headwall chair in 2004. So.....we are excited for that experience again.
Agree Rose is a rare gem, we may be back.Donjoy to the World!
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09-15-2021, 10:22 AM #5233
The only time they're going to close anything is if a slope is above an important roadway, like they do on Teton Pass now after too many idiotic incidents.
I ski 135 degree chutes switch to the road.
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09-15-2021, 10:49 AM #5234?
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If you go this route. Be ready to leave Reno around 6am. At the latest. Things have changed. 80 backs up before Genshire and every road in is a parking lot. Too many times sitting in traffic for a few hours. Even trying to go to homeywood. Go over 267 though king beach. Traffic stops around dollar hill. And that’s how it is.
But I understand. You half to do it. It’s just a lot of overhead and stress when the rose is just consistent and easyOwn your fail. ~Jer~
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09-15-2021, 10:59 AM #5235
I had a full IKON and Telluride pass last year. Called Telluride regarding renewing pass for this season and if any discounts for renewing early. $1900 with no discounts and a price increase in October. Ughhhhhhh.
But yeah, all my kids are doing ski team again at the new tahoe ski resort so see you fools in the morning at the usual spots.
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09-15-2021, 11:07 AM #5236powdork.com - new and improved, with 20% more dork.
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09-15-2021, 01:06 PM #5237click here
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Gotta love the land manager transition zones. Once I woke up off-trail on USFS land, on a steep muddy cliff next to an unmarked 6 foot deep mantrap hole with hotspring at bottom, then hiked 5 miles to a wide NPS trail with numerous signs and a closure due to a few rocks out of place and trail maintenance. Or during the Rim Fire when USFS lands closed and even saying "spark" was banned, yet Yosemite was open with no fire restrictions. Also been warned of active fire while picking up permit "watch out for rolling rocks and burning logs," (USFS) and another time banned from entering a cold fire area burned the prior season (NPS).
I figure it mostly depends on whether I'm talking to wilderness rangers or truck driving rangers. One walks near bears and crosses icy torrents. The other worries about paper cuts. And they generally deal with populations like themselves. Which is fine.
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09-15-2021, 01:30 PM #5238Registered Useless
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am privy to a lot of the long-term planning on the avy front through some volunteer work. there's no discussion of closures based on avy forecasts.
the scale of impact between a wildfire burning SLT or 463,000 acres in norcal and an avalanche, or even a LOT of avalanches, is a *little* different.
I definitely acknowledge the 'slippery slope' of public land closures. not arguing that at all. just saying at the current time, no one is talking about avy closures
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09-15-2021, 04:00 PM #5239
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09-15-2021, 06:54 PM #5244Registered User
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Why would the USFS care about a few people getting hurt or even dying in avalanches? They don't close lakes to keep people from drowning, they don't close climbing areas because climbers might fall, they don't close peaks when thunderstorms are expected. Even the rescue or body recovery is usually handled by volunteer SAR teams or local agencies, USFS isn't responsible.
Fire is different - fighting wildland fire on federal land is a USFS responsibility, and they spend over $2 billion a year on fire suppression. New fire starts just add to the cost, particularly when resources are already stretched.
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09-15-2021, 10:58 PM #5245
You're wrong. The closures were definitely a creeping authoritarian plot to prevent people from using public lands. The reasons will become more and more arbitrary unless we rebel now! By rebel, I mean skwak on teh interwebz.
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09-16-2021, 01:32 AM #5246
Yeah, but, not in time for South Lake. To be fair (if you watched Bring the Brigade) when the fire official said that in a lot of these places they had recently voted against additional taxes to beef up fire departments, that didn't tell the whole story. In March 2020 there was such a measure for the Lake Valley Fire Protection District. And yes, it lost. But that doesn't mean we voted against it. We voted for it overwhelmingly but since it involved raising property taxes by $52/parcel per year it required a 2/3rds vote to approve because California. It only received about 62% of the vote, which would be considered a landslide anywhere else.
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09-16-2021, 09:46 AM #5248
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09-16-2021, 09:50 AM #5249
The best example of course is the closure above highway 50 as it moves down off Echo Summit
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09-16-2021, 12:12 PM #5250registered abuser
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Sooooo…….are the forests other then eldorado open now?
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