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05-17-2025,
03:33 PM
Southwest Dave
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Competition time. Welcome to the 39th Tioga pass Prognosticator. Spring opening 2025
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Memorable Breakdowns & Back Roads
Thanks for sharing the photo's tseeb, you can't beat mountain snow and blue sky's! Yosemite NP has not updated on the Tioga pass clearing effort...
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05-17-2025,
11:04 AM
Mark Sedenquist
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Competition time. Welcome to the 39th Tioga pass Prognosticator. Spring opening 2025
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Memorable Breakdowns & Back Roads
Glad you are figuring how to add the larger photos! Makes it so much easier for member and casual visitors to see your photos. Thanks for making...
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05-16-2025,
11:27 AM
Mark Sedenquist
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Mexican Road Trip: To the Yucatan and Back
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RoadTrip Field Reports
Your photos really bring the Festivals to life! Mark
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05-16-2025,
11:11 AM
Mark Sedenquist
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Competition time. Welcome to the 39th Tioga pass Prognosticator. Spring opening 2025
in
Memorable Breakdowns & Back Roads
Remarkably, it was snowing heavily three different times in Kirkwood on the 12th of May. And it was COOL in Death Valley on the 12th! Temps in...
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05-15-2025,
06:15 PM
Mark Sedenquist
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<div style="float: left"><img src="https://living-las-vegas.com/content/uploads/feeding_thumb.png" style="margin-bottom: 2px; margin-right: 10px"...
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05-11-2025,
04:02 PM
Mark Sedenquist
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Eaton Fire in Pasadena, California
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RoadTrip Field Reports
Another week of heavy truck traffic draws nigh. May 11th at 4 pm PDT -- Ready for more trucks in the morning. --> Sierra Madre Canyon ...
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05-08-2025,
09:39 AM
Southwest Dave
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ST. Louis to Glacier National Park to San Francisco and back
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Planning Summer RoadTrips
Hi and welcome back! This sounds like a great solo trip to enjoy, but you have many, many options before I could meaningfully give a particular...
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05-08-2025,
06:22 AM
Southwest Dave
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Competition time. Welcome to the 39th Tioga pass Prognosticator. Spring opening 2025
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Memorable Breakdowns & Back Roads
Thanks for the Intel Liam. It has been confirmed that the Tioga pass has been plowed along it's entire length and crews are now working on side...
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05-07-2025,
12:25 PM
Mark Sedenquist
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Mexican Road Trip: To the Yucatan and Back
in
RoadTrip Field Reports
Rick, Great report--as always--and the photos are very cool. I am not sure why this is, but for some peculiar reason this task has fallen on my...
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05-06-2025,
05:06 AM
Southwest Dave
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Competition time. Welcome to the 39th Tioga pass Prognosticator. Spring opening 2025
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Memorable Breakdowns & Back Roads
A lot will depend on the amount of debris from fallen trees and rocks on the road etc, but I haven't seen any reports of major delays from that, or...
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51 replies | 176371 view(s)
05-04-2025,
07:51 AM
Mark Sedenquist
replied to a thread
Eaton Fire in Pasadena, California
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All ready to go start truckin' again on Monday morning. May 4th -- 7:45 am PDT (Mud level was at the dam height when they started digging out)...
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05-01-2025,
01:37 PM
Southwest Dave
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Competition time. Welcome to the 39th Tioga pass Prognosticator. Spring opening 2025
in
Memorable Breakdowns & Back Roads
They really are plowing on with it ! There is usually quite a clearing up operation to do after the plowing is done, felled trees, rocks and other...
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51 replies | 176371 view(s)
04-30-2025,
10:54 AM
Mark Sedenquist
replied to a thread
Eaton Fire in Pasadena, California
in
RoadTrip Field Reports
Work continues at both places This is going to be emptied pretty darn soon. April 30th at 10:49 am PDT ...
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04-29-2025,
04:05 PM
Mark Sedenquist
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Moving to Raleigh from Los Angeles! (October target)
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Fall & Winter RoadTrips
Such things happen to all of us--sooner or later. On this trip upcoming, I have a couple 500+ mile days, and I ALWAYS prefer to drive no more than...
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04-29-2025,
03:12 PM
Mark Sedenquist
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Moving to Raleigh from Los Angeles! (October target)
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Fall & Winter RoadTrips
I agree that 651 miles is a bit long for the first day. And I agree with your choices. For the trip I am doing in July, our first night's stop is...
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16 replies | 452 view(s)
04-29-2025,
12:01 PM
Mark Sedenquist
replied to a poll
Competition time. Welcome to the 39th Tioga pass Prognosticator. Spring opening 2025
in
Memorable Breakdowns & Back Roads
Well, that is surprising-to say the least. Snow levels on the road is still impressive. Mark
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51 replies | 176371 view(s)
04-28-2025,
03:07 PM
Southwest Dave
replied to a poll
Competition time. Welcome to the 39th Tioga pass Prognosticator. Spring opening 2025
in
Memorable Breakdowns & Back Roads
Looking at the Webcam image, the weekends snow doesn't appear to have had much impact. Here are images from Yosemite NP of the plows near...
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51 replies | 176371 view(s)
04-27-2025,
10:34 AM
Mark Sedenquist
replied to a thread
Moving to Raleigh from Los Angeles! (October target)
in
Fall & Winter RoadTrips
Donna, Great idea to repost your moving report since the OP from this thread is going through a similar transition. Here is part of Donna's...
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16 replies | 452 view(s)
04-26-2025,
05:28 PM
Mark Sedenquist
replied to a poll
Competition time. Welcome to the 39th Tioga pass Prognosticator. Spring opening 2025
in
Memorable Breakdowns & Back Roads
It is really is incredible to have this cooling trend. I had to wear a jacket today when I practiced Yoga in the park. I have never seen such...
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04-26-2025,
10:22 AM
Southwest Dave
replied to a poll
Competition time. Welcome to the 39th Tioga pass Prognosticator. Spring opening 2025
in
Memorable Breakdowns & Back Roads
There is a Winter weather warning in place for Yosemite NP park and there could be more snow than I first thought. Dave
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04-26-2025,
10:16 AM
Southwest Dave
replied to a poll
Competition time. Welcome to the 39th Tioga pass Prognosticator. Spring opening 2025
in
Memorable Breakdowns & Back Roads
The road crews have been Plowing the road since April 22nd and by the 24th they had covered 12 miles of road clearing, this puts them about 3 miles...
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51 replies | 176371 view(s)
04-25-2025,
07:52 PM
Mark Sedenquist
replied to a thread
Moving to Raleigh from Los Angeles! (October target)
in
Fall & Winter RoadTrips
Yep, George is correct. They are heading east-bound under a full head of steam. So staying on the eastern side of town makes the most sense. ...
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16 replies | 452 view(s)
04-25-2025,
04:02 PM
Mark Sedenquist
replied to a thread
Moving to Raleigh from Los Angeles! (October target)
in
Fall & Winter RoadTrips
Nope, that made total sense. I was referring to the fact that you listed the mileage for this adventure to be 5200 miles -- when it is actually 2600...
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16 replies | 452 view(s)
04-25-2025,
03:24 PM
Mark Sedenquist
replied to a thread
Moving to Raleigh from Los Angeles! (October target)
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Fall & Winter RoadTrips
Congratulations on the recent marriage and the trip to Raleigh! . It is actually about 2600 miles one-way -- are you making a round trip of it? ...
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04-25-2025,
02:52 PM
Mark Sedenquist
replied to a poll
Competition time. Welcome to the 39th Tioga pass Prognosticator. Spring opening 2025
in
Memorable Breakdowns & Back Roads
Wow, a chance of decent snow on Saturday and Sunday. That is a bit of a surprise. And the low for the valley on Sunday is 15 degrees F. ...
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51 replies | 176371 view(s)
04-25-2025,
02:08 PM
Mark Sedenquist
replied to a thread
Planning a trip from Dallas, TX to Tampa, FL May-June 2025
in
Planning Summer RoadTrips
Fred, Thanks for the kudos and we hope we continue to be helpful to you! I had to look up where Providence Village was. I thought, (after...
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04-24-2025,
12:03 PM
Mark Sedenquist
replied to a poll
Competition time. Welcome to the 39th Tioga pass Prognosticator. Spring opening 2025
in
Memorable Breakdowns & Back Roads
The Rocks are Back! Wow, this is melting so fast! April 24th at 12:00 Noon PDT -- Photo courtesy of The Yosemite Conservancy
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04-24-2025,
09:46 AM
Mark Sedenquist
replied to a thread
Eaton Fire in Pasadena, California
in
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Going a foot or so deeper this week April 24th at 9:45 am PDT (Sierra Madre Canyon, above the dam in Sierra Madre) ...
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Born Suva, Fiji. Moved to New Zealand for University. Married with 3 children and two grand daughters
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