Heather Meadows High Country
Bagley Lakes, Table Mountain, and its eponymous glacier at precisely this time last year. This area gets some of the most snow of any place on earth, with the ski area just downhill from this spot holding the world record for one season – 1,140 inches (95.0 ft; 29.0 m), recorded during the 1998–99 season – as well as the unofficially highest average annual snowfall of any resort in the world, with 641 inches (53.4 ft; 16.3 m). The seven-mile hike I took on this day (with my canine sidekick Bailey) never went much above 5,300 feet of elevation, but it was still pretty grueling, and involved some significant stretches of snow on the trail, even at the end of August.
Heather Meadows High Country
Bagley Lakes, Table Mountain, and its eponymous glacier at precisely this time last year. This area gets some of the most snow of any place on earth, with the ski area just downhill from this spot holding the world record for one season – 1,140 inches (95.0 ft; 29.0 m), recorded during the 1998–99 season – as well as the unofficially highest average annual snowfall of any resort in the world, with 641 inches (53.4 ft; 16.3 m). The seven-mile hike I took on this day (with my canine sidekick Bailey) never went much above 5,300 feet of elevation, but it was still pretty grueling, and involved some significant stretches of snow on the trail, even at the end of August.