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SamX
Apr 25, 2012, 4:21 PM
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Its looking like storms are coming through but the forecast has changed like 5 times in the past 2 days as far as rainfall amounts and areas affected. EVen if its nice saturday will things still be too wet to climb? I usually dont head south until May or June so im just trying to figure out the conditions...
Anyone who has been down there this week post something...
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lena_chita
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Apr 25, 2012, 4:41 PM
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If you don't "head south" until May or June, then you are missing the best time to climb.
As to what the weather will be like-- we are reading the same forecasts as you. Who knows? Definitely not the best, but not the worst by far, either. In general, I consider 30% chance of rain as a good forecast. There is plenty of overhanging rock to climb at the Red, so I do not cancel a trip if the forecast shows 30% chance of rain Most of the time I got lucky, a few times I didn't.
It had been dry for something like an 18-day stretch up until last weekend and the weather was gorgeous. It's been pretty dry since early March, overall, and the rains in the past week haven't been super-heavy ,from what I have heard, so I would not expect the ground to be saturated and everything to be condensing and dripping...
But, everything is possible. Sorry, no guaranties in life.
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