Originally Posted By: KevinR
This is a nit, but ... Am quite sure the high winds occurred on November 30th and continued into December 1st.

These dates are "burned" into my memory as the high winds (upwards of 90mph in the IWV) in the late afternoon of November 30th caused a power failure, which in turn caused my pellet stove to malfunction and cause substantial smoke damage in my home.


You're right Kevin. I keyed "December" in the subject title based on the graph at the top from Mammoth Mountain. There, the storm began on Nov 30. But it peaked maybe midnight or sometime later.

Too bad about the smoke damage. At least a pile of pine trees didn't crash through your roof!   :|


....And more news from Inyo N.F.
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Hi everyone,

Good news- the Reds Meadow Road is scheduled to open Friday, June 29

We are hearing from hikers about more areas with trees down:
  • 100+ trees down in Tully Hole area
  • 50+ trees down on Mono Creek trail, west of Second Recess
  • large number of trees down in Ansel Adams -Sierra NF-Reported as very difficult from Isberg Pass to Clover Meadow and the trail crossing to Reds Meadow via Summit Meadow.
  • trees across the trail on JMT- Lyell Creek to Tuolumne Meadow.