
CRAIG HILL
Craig Hill is The News Tribune’s injury-prone Adventure writer. After eight years covering college football and basketball, he started writing about adventure sports in 2004. He writes about everything from mountaineering and cycling to skiing and camping. You can reach him at craig.hill@thenewstribune.com
JEFFREY P. MAYOR
Jeffrey P. Mayor has been The News Tribune’s Adventure editor since 2003, and oversees our weekly Adventure section. His coverage focuses on fishing, hunting, Mount Rainier and the state Department of Fish and Wildlife. You can reach him at jeff.mayor@thenewstribune.com
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We know there has been plenty of snow at Mount Rainier, but here are some numbers to back up the assumptions.
The historic average snow depth at Longmire for April 4 is 9 inches. This year, there were 47 inches, 522 percent of normal
At Paradise, the historic average snow depth is 178 inches on April 4. This year’s depth was 124 percent of normal at 220 inches.
And the snow keeps falling. On Monday morning, the snow depth at Paradise was 226 inches.
So far this snow season, which runs from July 1 to June 30, Paradise has received 775 inches of snow. That is the most snow that has fallen since 2001-02 when 837 inches of snow fell at Paradise. The annual average is 691 inches.
The road to Paradise was closed Monday due to avalanche danger, the third time that has happened this year.
Click here to track weather conditions at Paradise.
To view conditions just below Paradise, check out this Webcam.
