Man I cant wait to see the coverage on this one!

Edited by getupandgo on 03/21/2012 11:32:05 MDT.

Anyone from the Colorado front range going to this?

I'm going to be getting a little more serious about planning my route in the next couple weeks - hopefully the other half of the Cairn Carto BMW map is released soon. The biggest question in my mind is the snow conditions this spring.

Not being from the USA, is there some sort of government service that provides information on the snowpack levels / elevations? Or what are the best resources to use? Anecdotal / speculative info would also be appreciate. From Dave's blog, things look pretty snowy still but hopefully are changing quickly.

Perhaps most helpful would be a rough guess of what elevations are likely to be snow free in late May, so I can figure out roughly how much snow travel I'll have.

Edited by dandydan on 04/15/2012 22:04:09 MDT.

http://tinyurl.com/7c34pfo

They used to output KMZ data for Google Earth, but I couldn't find it now. It was pretty nice for a early Sierra trip I had planned last year. Accuracy is questionable, and resolution is poor (passes that were supposed to have 10'+ of snow pack were snow free on the ridge-line), but better than nothing, I suppose.

From the same site:

http://tinyurl.com/7hz2hgd

The "animate last two weeks" feature is nice to see trends. Again, this data is questionable.