Man missing in Rock Creek area

UPDATE:  8-22 Search teams resumed their work at daybreak.  Still no sign of Mr. Mooney at last report. – Press release from Inyo County Sheriff’s Office: A multiagency search and rescue effort has been underway since approximately 10:30 PM last night,...

Snowpack dwindles

The State Department of Water Resources recently conducted this winter’s third snow survey. Surveyors have now been quoted as saying that water content in the mountain snowpack is “well below normal for the date.” This according to the DWR website....

Snowpack: going up

Snow and water content continue to go up in the Sierra mountains. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power website graph shows Mammoth Pass snowpack with 22.3 inches of water content. Last year at this time, it was closer to 2 inches. With at least three more...