{"id":495,"date":"2006-06-04T06:48:51","date_gmt":"2006-06-04T11:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=495"},"modified":"2006-06-04T06:48:51","modified_gmt":"2006-06-04T11:48:51","slug":"still-snowy-in-the-high-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/06\/04\/still-snowy-in-the-high-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Still snowy in the  high country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cbs5.com\/topstories\/local_story_153133223.html\">Many trails in the highest Sierra elevations won&#8217;t be clear for weeks. <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Some of our highest country is still under 8 to 10 feet of snow,&#8221; Randall said.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nFarther west along the Sierra crest &#8212; such as at Desolation Wilderness, the most-used wilderness area in the nation &#8212; the snowpack could remain deep for quite some time, officials said.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n&#8220;The higher areas will probably have a snow cover well into the summer,&#8221; said Don Lane, a recreation specialist with the Forest Service&#8217;s Lake Tahoe unit. &#8220;A lot of the trails are still covered. All of the high country is buried under ice and snow, and it&#8217;s going to take its time to melt out.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The good news is, we&#8217;ll have plenty of drinking water in California this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many trails in the highest Sierra elevations won&#8217;t be clear for weeks. &#8220;Some of our highest country is still under 8 to 10 feet of snow,&#8221; Randall said. Farther west along the Sierra crest &#8212; such as at Desolation Wilderness,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/06\/04\/still-snowy-in-the-high-country\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}