You've read that the Sierra over 6,500 feet is still under snow, right?

I will never take anything rated over 20F to the Sierra in midsummer, let alone right now when it's covered with snow, and all my hiking group's dayhikes in Yosemite are getting snowed out. (It's still snowing. It's June.)

We just bailed out of a Point Reyes hike that I should have been on this weekend - forecast is for 2 inches of rain. The last coast trip I took the forecast was "chance of thunderstorm" and we had nearly three inches of snow.

We've camped in Henry Coe in the creek bottoms, and had sub-freezing temps - woke to frost all over my hammock and backpack. That was in a less snowy/cold year...

Take it from another gurl, get a warmer bag unless you're a warm sleeper.

The good news, the snow will be fairly consolidated and easier to walk on, and the poles will help a lot.

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