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Horseshoe Meadows Road opens Apr 24, 2015
#42299 04/23/15 12:28 PM
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Paul sent me this:

Inyo County Road Conditions

Road Status Comments
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Whitney Portal Rd Open

Onion Valley Rd Open

Horseshoe Meadow Rd Closed Estimated to open April 24th.

Haiwee Pass Rd OPEN Flood damage

Foothill Rd OPEN

Division Creek Rd OPEN

Mazourka Cn. Rd OPEN Side roads damaged by floods.

N Saline Valley Rd OPEN


Re: Horseshoe Meadows Road opens Apr 24, 2015
Steve C #42300 04/23/15 03:02 PM
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As memory serves this is only one day earlier than last year for Horseshoe Meadow Road.

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John Sims #42304 04/24/15 02:25 PM
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Apparently it's not opening after all, due to weather.

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Barbara #42306 04/24/15 03:52 PM
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Bummer.....I was going to drive up and do some day hiking this weekend. I wonder when the road will be open then, next week....Monday, Tuesday?

Last year, I went into the backcountry, over Trail Pass on May4th, down to the Kern for 7 days.....

paul

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Paul #42318 04/26/15 10:17 AM
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anyword if the road might open this week and did the area get a lot of snow? I would like to get out to the cotton wood lakes area for a night or 2.

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Re: Horseshoe Meadows Road opens Apr 24, 2015
Beantown #42319 04/26/15 11:11 AM
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The road conditions web page from Inyo N.F. is here:
http://www.fs.usda.gov/detailfull/inyo/recreation/?cid=stelprdb5192379

It shows Horseshoe Meadows road still closed, but their update date is Apr 24. Note they also give the Inyo County road dept phone number, so you could call them and find out.

From the web cam views, the storm does not appear to have dropped any snow on the east side, so I would expect the road to open up very soon.

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Steve C #42325 04/27/15 10:45 AM
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I called and they said its going to be a couple more weeks because there are doing some repairs to the road.

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Steve C #42380 05/01/15 06:36 AM
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Horseshoe Meadow Road is now Open Folks ! gst

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Sierra Angler #42390 05/01/15 08:02 PM
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Originally Posted By: Sierra Angler
Horseshoe Meadow Road is now Open Folks ! gst


Great news!

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happytrails #42399 05/02/15 05:03 PM
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So anyone get out up there? I was thinking of doing cottonwood lakes over army pass and loop back around on the pct and cottonwood pass maybee next weekend but I see the forecast has 20% chance of snow all week. Anyways would these passes still hold much snow that I would need ice ax and crampons? Which is fine. I've only been up old army pass last year in aug so not familiar with the rest if the trail.


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