Notices by Douglas (douglasvb@m.ai6yr.org), page 2

Happy Mount St Helens Eruption Day to those who celebrate.

My all time favorite symphony to play remains Symphony No. 50, Op. 360, Mount St. Helens by Alan Hovhaness. It's not a terribly complex or challenging symphony to play but the third movement is very fun at least if you're in the symphony.

I'm not sure if I ever have heard it performed live as an audience member though. Maybe as a kid?

Also I think this might be the most epic photo of the eruption (by Dick Lasher) aside from the series of photos taken by Reid Blackburn and Robert Landsburg who both died.

Forked Meadow has received over a half inch of precipitation today. Because it's been mostly snow, it's hard to say exactly how much since we don't have a way to accurately capture all of the snow in the precipitation count until it melts. And even then if it doesn't stay on the rain gauge funnel, it's lost to our weather station.

The Upper Providence Creek weather station run by UC Merced ( https://cdec.water.ca.gov/dynamicapp/QueryF?s=KUP ) is showing about an inch of precipitation. That station does do a good job of catching all of the snow but it is about 400 feet higher elevation and on the other side of the ridge (Forked Meadow is in the rain shadow of the ridge depending on the direction of the storm).

There's moisture in the forecast through tomorrow which probably will mostly be snow. Then the next chance is on Staurday.

This is a MUCH more wet April than I was expecting. It would be nice if we had a snowpack though... because even with this storm, it's hella bleak in California this year. Average precipitation but almost no snow.

Winter is back once again at Forked Meadow outside of Shaver Lake, California.

Looks like Old Fort, BC has to evacuate again because their only road is about to get taken out by a landslide again.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/old-fort-road-landslide-cracking-peace-river-regional-district-9.7170626

@janneke @nixCraft we unfortunately use Microsoft's ecosystem at work. And so does the entire constellation of contractors.

I drove from Monterey to the mountains today across the valley. There was almost no traffic on the road. It was pretty similar to early in the pandemic.

I wonder if that's because of fuel prices.

I paid $5.89/gal in Prather to top up before heading up the grade. The cheapest I saw on 99, 168, or 152 was $5.49/gal.

@skinnylatte Are you in ABQ by chance?

If so, it is well worth the trek to go to https://indianpueblokitchen.org/our-menu/

(and the museum and cultural center there is AMAZING)

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/03/more-than-2000-tiny-dams-are-turning-a-mexican-ranch-green/

This is hella important.

I saw the same sort of tech when I was in Tunisia 20 years ago.

This is the same idea as beaver dams and beaver dam analog structures.

Slow the water down and let it soak in. Capture the silt and let it settle.

Simple low tech solutions...

Ew.

The Google Doodle today goes to Gemini barfing up an answer about inventions by women.

Did a little rambling down through Big Sur this afternoon.

@skinnylatte woah when did SF housing get hot again? Six months ago it seemed like a ghost turn.

@ai6yr @cvvhrn lol no I knew about that days in advance. Anyway we didn't even drop down to Furnace Creek or Stovepipe Wells. Or even Panamint Springs. We went on the ultra back roads today 😅

@cvvhrn @ai6yr I think we're going to go to Manzanar tomorrow if it's open.

@cvvhrn @ai6yr I would suggest against it on Lippencott Road. We found an utterly destroyed BMW SUV abandoned about a mile from the intersection with Saline Valley Road. I'll post photos of that later.

But assuming no snow you could absolutely do Saline Valley Road.

Oo I think we will do Barker Ranch on Saturday. Any tips for that?

@ai6yr @cvvhrn maybe you can find wherever these incidents get logged and follow its progress tonight and into the next few days 😅

That BMW is only coming out on a flatbed wrecker.

@ai6yr @cvvhrn I called Inyo County dispatch but they only had one person working tonight and they had an involved 911 call so they asked me to call CHP up in Bridgeport to report the vehicles. I dutifully did so and hopefully the CHP dispatch relays that information to DVNP tomorrow.

They've got my call back number. I wouldn't be surprised if I get a confused call from a trooper tomorrow morning wanting more details.

I was specific that they didn't need to send anyone out tonight to those vehicles. If anyone was out with them, they're probably already dead at this point 😬 No point in having some troopers get stranded in the snow overnight.

@ai6yr @cvvhrn and occasionally other lost things

@ai6yr @cvvhrn they couldn't have made it in since the snow so I think it's been there at least two days. Maybe more.

@ai6yr @cvvhrn I didn't find the owners and regional dispatch isn't going to tell me anything. So hopefully someone found them and hauled them out a day or two ago.

@ai6yr @GhostOnTheHalfShell @cvvhrn as the kids say...

Big bruh moment

Yeah I've got no idea. It would be not too bad to get it to where Lippincott Pass Road intersects with Saline Valley Road but after that... I guess pedal to the metal until you get so stuck there's no way back.

They got stuck in the low point on the road.