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Echo Lake SNO-Park · trailhead

Desolation zone

Community channel 20 · privacy code 30

The trailhead sign is up. Plowed winter parking.

Avalanche forecast today

No danger rating today.

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From the Sierra Avalanche Center for the Central Sierra Nevada zone. Issued 3:04 PM PT Tue 20 Oct; expires 4:00 AM PT Sun 1 Nov.

Weather forecast today

Hwy 50 at Echo Summit, 7,401 ft · NWS point forecast

OvernightWidespread frost0 inLow 32 °FSSW 1
SundayWidespread frost then mostly sunny0 inHigh 63 °FSSW 1–5
Sun nightPartly cloudy then areas of frost0 inLow 34 °FSSW 1–9 G29

NWS point forecast · NWS avalanche weather forecast (text)

Up high

No crest wind right now at Hwy 50 at Echo Summit (7,401 ft).

Down low

Echo Peak, 7,650 ft.

0 in snow depth37 °F air temperature

Read 12:00 AM PT Sun 25 Oct, NRCS SNOTEL.

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