Snowshoeing near the tram

[Hotfootedhiker]

Hi there my 8year old son has been asking to to get his snowshoes dirty. I was maybe thinking of taking him to the tram. How is it up there?

[Norris]

Hi, you can observe conditions in Long Valley via the online camera located here:http://www.pstramway.com/long-valley-cam.html

[soylentgreen]

My partner and I were up just yesterday (Sunday, Jan 26th, 2016). We hiked from the ranger station in Long Valley up to Wellman's Divide.

Conditions: packed snow & ice the entire way. From the ranger station, I wore snowshoes and my partner wore microspikes. This was fine for about 2.5 miles (until we were about a mile from Wellman's Divide) at which point the packed trail kind of died, and we were forced to go "off trail". After a few hundred yards of post-holing, my partner put on snowshoes and we followed a track that basically followed the creek up to Wellman's.

I was kind of surprised that even though the big snowstorm had happened 10+ days prior, there was not a well-traveled trail up to Wellman's.

Weather was about 45 at the Tram at 8500', and dropping below freezing as you got up towards 9500 feet. We had lunch at the divide which was actually wonderful, calm and sunny and we ate on the rocks.

[Hotfootedhiker]

Thanks for the update. This past Sunday my son and I went to Heart Bar instead and we hiked 3.5 miles not bad for my sons first time in snowshoes. After I talked to the Rangers I got the impression conditions were not that good. I guess they are. We are going to have to get up soon.

[krishnab]

Say, I am supposed to go up there this Sunday. Anyone else been up there lately? I called the ranger station and they said that snow is not that great--rather crunchy and icy. The video feed from Long Valley does not look that bad though. I figured I would ask if anyone had some experience lately.

[63ChevyII]

We found nice conditions off-trail:

Trail/Snow Conditions: San Jacinto & Miller Peaks, 1/23/16

[RocketJ]

Is the Sid Davis route prone to Avalanche conditions?