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BooDawg
Social climber
Butterfly Town
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Topic Author's Original Post - Apr 10, 2014 - 09:03pm PT
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Word from today's Gateway Partners' meeting suggests Glacier Point Rd. may open TOMORROW for this weekend!
Of course, Tioga is WAY MORE relevant to climbers, and they'll be pushing it forward... Let's have a lottery on this year's opening date (for autos)!
Mostly sunny for the foreseeable future... Is May 1st a reasonable guess? Maybe closer to May 15 (my birthday!)...
Since weekends often figure in the NPS's doings, I'll take Friday, May 9th, one day before Life Is A Bivouac's B-Day!
Any other guesses?
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Apr 10, 2014 - 09:06pm PT
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May 1 works for me....that's the day I head back to Rado.
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WBraun
climber
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Apr 10, 2014 - 09:14pm PT
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The roads are never closed.
You just can't drive on them at certain times but they're always open ....
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Apr 10, 2014 - 09:33pm PT
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Hey Guys, I'll take May 16th. Rumors are that TPR will again be open Memorial Weekend.
Boo....are you working on songs for Yellow Pine Campfires? Cheers!
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BooDawg
Social climber
Butterfly Town
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 10, 2014 - 09:54pm PT
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May 16th is a good one, Lynne!
Yes, I keep my vocal cords tuned, especially for Yellow Pines!
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looks easy from here
climber
Ben Lomond, CA
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Apr 10, 2014 - 11:04pm PT
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After spending waaaay too much time on this, I take
Saturday, May third.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Apr 10, 2014 - 11:06pm PT
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looks easy from here....bet you a home made cookie that's too early :) lynnie
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Edge
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Apr 10, 2014 - 11:09pm PT
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I have a vested interest in this matter, seeing as how I have to deliver some furniture to Sacramento in the third week of May, and I would dearly love to hit the Valley on my way home to CO. Then I won't have to backtrack to Tahoe.
May 8, FTW.
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looks easy from here
climber
Ben Lomond, CA
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Apr 10, 2014 - 11:14pm PT
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looks easy from here....bet you a home made cookie that's too early :) lynnie
I'd take you up on that, but with my cooking even if you win you lose.
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Bascuela
Trad climber
Fresno, CA
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Apr 10, 2014 - 11:16pm PT
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When did it open last year?
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Apr 10, 2014 - 11:18pm PT
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I'm betting May 23rd...
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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Apr 10, 2014 - 11:19pm PT
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The roads are never closed.
You just can't drive on them at certain times but they're always open ....
Yeah Buddy!
Is The Great One ( I mean that with all SINCERITY) the only one paying attention? . . . Stoopid 'Mericans.
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Apr 10, 2014 - 11:28pm PT
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I like May 10th
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looks easy from here
climber
Ben Lomond, CA
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Apr 10, 2014 - 11:37pm PT
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BooDawg, are you up for keeping a list in the OP?
In case you are, here's a start:
5/1 donini
5/3 looks easy from here
5/8 Edge
5/9 BooDawg
5/10 Vitaliy M.
5/16 Lynne Leichtfuss
5/23 phylp
I kinda tweak out about stuff like this...
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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Apr 11, 2014 - 12:36am PT
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everything was open range sheep grazing up there,
then the White Man brought in the wire hung on bodark fence posts,
then the pipe rail gates,
whats next?
rangers with guns?
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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Apr 11, 2014 - 01:24am PT
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whats next?
rangers with guns?
I hope not.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Apr 11, 2014 - 02:02am PT
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in 1988 the fractional snow pack on April 1st was closest to what it was this year...
the road opened on Friday, 4/29
a linear regression would have predicted 4/24 (a Sunday)
this year the fractional snow pack on April 1st was 0.33
the regression predicts: 4/20/14 (a Sunday) with 4/26/14 being one standard deviation low, and 5/2/14 one standard deviation high...
of the 34 years in the NPS table, 22 of those years had the road opening on Friday or Saturday...
Here are my guesses:
5/2 or 5/3 about 40% of a chance
4/18 or 4/19 about 32% of a chance
4/25 or 4/26 about 10% of a chance
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Apr 11, 2014 - 03:27am PT
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05/21/2014
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