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FAQ's
Do I Need Reservations? Not always necessary, but a good idea.
There's now two-tiered pricing for staying at the Hut. To get the lower overnight rates at the Hut, you can join (and support!) the Yosemite Association.
How To Get There: Directions to Badger Pass and Ostrander — with map. GPS Waypoints from the Badger road to the Hut in UTM now listed.
Recommended Equipment If it's your first time, check both this list and What I Carry for ideas!
What I Carry Rummage through my pack: brand names & weights.
Your Hutmasters Their deeply moving personal stories
Howard's
own photography site Samples of Howard's Fine Art
photographs, news and dates about his photography shows and how
to order prints.
Photos
from Craig Taylor. Take a look at a typical Hut cruise and, at no extra
chage, some White Ptarmigans (first I've heard of around the Hut!)
New:One
of our long-time hut users had the brilliant idea to start posting
video of Ostrander adventures on YouTube. If you post something,
send
me the URL and we'll link it here.
Interview with
Hut Sage, HW (Peter Grace)
The web site Ski Tours in the Sierra Nevada offers detailed waypoints and route descriptions for Ostrander, as well as a number of other great Sierra ski tours.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Fn7DQHD4Y
HW
Skiing off Chili Bowl:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpzHk8USRXU
The Ostrander Family Photo Album.
Your photos of daring and adventure now posted here. This is
an experiment and
we'll see how it goes. If you've got a photo or two (Let's not overdo
it, campers...) from your
skiing adventure, send
it to me and I'll post it.
Mighty Hunter, Wiley
Woodrat
Sierra Nature Notes Published courtesy of our sponsor, The Yosemite Association. SNN is the online journal of natural history news about the Sierra Nevada mountains. Written by researchers, our articles are first-person accounts from the boys & girls who muck about in stream and fen discovering what makes the Sierra tick. Edited by Yours Truly. Keep up to date on what's happening in the Sierra: drop by and sign up for monthly updates on new articles! Thanks.
Yosemite Live Cam mounted near Inspiration Point Tunnel. Check in at sunrise and in the evening. Great light!
Your Fervent Prayers Answered: The Jon-ny Partner™ is here! Check out our commodious commode.
Snow Information
Tracey
and Bruce, the rangers at Tuolumne Meadows, are giving snow
and avalanche
conditions there every few days. Also interesting notes on wildlife
sightings. If you're going into Tuolumne from the east side, be sure
to stop by TPR to see if there's any mail to deliver to them!. Check
their web page: Tuolumne
Conditions. (Alas, they stopped posting in 2004 -- still, fun to
read).
Also: A list of real
time weather stations, including White Mountain and a few at Tahoe.
Eastern
Sierra Avalanche Bulletin Current Forecasts from Mammoth
Snow Water-Equivalent --automated snow sensor 1 mile from Hut (results in inches of water not snow depth). As a reference: on January 29, 2000, measured snow depth was 60 inches of snow, and the snow pillow reading showed 14.03 inches of water. That can give you an idea of the water content shown on the pillow vs.actual snow depth.
Temperature at Ostrander is available by clicking on the graph and going to "Real Time" (this wasn't working in early 2009).
Monthly Snow Survey records from Ostrander since 1938.
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