Transverse Dreams
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A SoCal hiking and skiing blog
Maybe the forecast Santa Ana winds this week will be an opportunity for snowmaking because this forecast doesn’t sound great.
December 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Maybe the forecast Santa Ana winds this week will be an opportunity for snowmaking because this forecast doesn’t sound great.
Interesting morning in the mountains with just enough of a shallow cold pool for Snow Valley to make some snow. All quiet at Snow Summit, Bear, and Mt High. Another warm week on tap…
December 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Interesting morning in the mountains with just enough of a shallow cold pool for Snow Valley to make some snow. All quiet at Snow Summit, Bear, and Mt High. Another warm week on tap…
Always puts a smile on my face to see the snow guns going 😊
December 5, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Always puts a smile on my face to see the snow guns going 😊
Don’t usually think of our sunny SoCal mountains as brooding but that’s what the NW face of Baldy is doing right now!
November 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Don’t usually think of our sunny SoCal mountains as brooding but that’s what the NW face of Baldy is doing right now!
Absolutely beautiful ice halos in Wrightwood right now! The common 22 degree halo and sun dogs, along with part of a parhelic circle (first two pictures), upper tangent arc, and circumzenithal arc!
November 29, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Absolutely beautiful ice halos in Wrightwood right now! The common 22 degree halo and sun dogs, along with part of a parhelic circle (first two pictures), upper tangent arc, and circumzenithal arc!
Second half of the double feature, Mt Lewis, an enigmatic desert front peak. The south face was burned badly by the Bridge Fire, so I harvested some fall corn there.
November 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Second half of the double feature, Mt Lewis, an enigmatic desert front peak. The south face was burned badly by the Bridge Fire, so I harvested some fall corn there.
Incredibly there is still powdery snow on the northwest ridge above the trees.
November 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Incredibly there is still powdery snow on the northwest ridge above the trees.
Yard sale on Throop Peak
November 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Yard sale on Throop Peak
Telescope Peak/Panamint Range from Wrightwood, over 100 miles away 👀
November 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Telescope Peak/Panamint Range from Wrightwood, over 100 miles away 👀
I know the inversion is a thing, but it feels like a different climate, but the only place that can make snow in SoCal right now this mountain high east base.
November 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I know the inversion is a thing, but it feels like a different climate, but the only place that can make snow in SoCal right now this mountain high east base.
Never noticed this sneaky view before, from the Metro A Line near Sierra Madre Villa. I think that is Pine Mtn.
November 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Never noticed this sneaky view before, from the Metro A Line near Sierra Madre Villa. I think that is Pine Mtn.
It’s not quite Rakaposhi but the view of snowy Baldy and Telegraph from Azusa never disappoints.
November 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
It’s not quite Rakaposhi but the view of snowy Baldy and Telegraph from Azusa never disappoints.
Opening day at Mountain High!
November 23, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Opening day at Mountain High!
It’s a beautiful morning, Baden Powell has a fresh coat of snow and Mountain High snow guns are going. You love to see it.
November 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It’s a beautiful morning, Baden Powell has a fresh coat of snow and Mountain High snow guns are going. You love to see it.
My kids and I love playing here since the stream flows all year. We built a stone shelter and dam last summer, and this storm washed it out to the desert. A great reminder of our impermanence without an Ozymandian time scale - even if the kids are not quite old enough to appreciate it yet…
November 16, 2025 at 9:56 PM
My kids and I love playing here since the stream flows all year. We built a stone shelter and dam last summer, and this storm washed it out to the desert. A great reminder of our impermanence without an Ozymandian time scale - even if the kids are not quite old enough to appreciate it yet…
Sheep Creek did indeed go yesterday, as it often does during big rainstorms. Alluvium builds up in the canyon in low energy events, flushes out in big ones. You can see the level of the mud flow a couple feet up on the sides, where the smooth well graded mud ends below the washed sand and gravel.
November 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Sheep Creek did indeed go yesterday, as it often does during big rainstorms. Alluvium builds up in the canyon in low energy events, flushes out in big ones. You can see the level of the mud flow a couple feet up on the sides, where the smooth well graded mud ends below the washed sand and gravel.
Based on the radar I think precipitation coverage is a little more than NWS had forecast. Also when reading the forecast discussion, I neglected to remember that while NNW flow is downslope (dry) for the metro areas, it’s *upslope* (wet) for Blue Ridge, BP, and Throop.
November 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Based on the radar I think precipitation coverage is a little more than NWS had forecast. Also when reading the forecast discussion, I neglected to remember that while NNW flow is downslope (dry) for the metro areas, it’s *upslope* (wet) for Blue Ridge, BP, and Throop.
Decided to try for Baden-Powell today. Surprisingly the gate on the 2 at Big Pines was open but it was snowing all the way down to Mtn High East so I bailed, not wanting to risk heading up to Vincent Gap in a 2WD with chains.
November 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Decided to try for Baden-Powell today. Surprisingly the gate on the 2 at Big Pines was open but it was snowing all the way down to Mtn High East so I bailed, not wanting to risk heading up to Vincent Gap in a 2WD with chains.
Double rainbow all the way across the sky!
November 16, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Double rainbow all the way across the sky!
Santa Barbara County 👀
LA County mountains are going to come on strong today though with this setup - south flow, Transverse Ranges… enhance.
LA County mountains are going to come on strong today though with this setup - south flow, Transverse Ranges… enhance.
November 15, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Santa Barbara County 👀
LA County mountains are going to come on strong today though with this setup - south flow, Transverse Ranges… enhance.
LA County mountains are going to come on strong today though with this setup - south flow, Transverse Ranges… enhance.
Bullseye Ice House Canyon.
Snow levels… questionable.
Snow levels… questionable.
November 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Bullseye Ice House Canyon.
Snow levels… questionable.
Snow levels… questionable.
Raining at the base but snowing at the top of MH West!!
November 15, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Raining at the base but snowing at the top of MH West!!
We desperately need a backcountry skier to start working at NWS Los Angeles. How far over 7500’!? Please tell me it’s like… 1’?
November 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
We desperately need a backcountry skier to start working at NWS Los Angeles. How far over 7500’!? Please tell me it’s like… 1’?
Got my October turns on Throop with the inimitable Andy Lewicky and got my November turns solo on BP today. The good news is the snow won’t be going anywhere. The bad news is the lower sun angle is letting these north faces approach the point where the snow is almost unedgable.
November 3, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Got my October turns on Throop with the inimitable Andy Lewicky and got my November turns solo on BP today. The good news is the snow won’t be going anywhere. The bad news is the lower sun angle is letting these north faces approach the point where the snow is almost unedgable.