SNOW!!!!

[Ridgerunner]

How does everyone think all this snow is going to affect things in the current year?  Do you think it is enough to get some migration going or is this just a tease that the hunting may be halfway decent this year in the cascades?  I don't recall another year where we got so much early snow.  I have no idea how much of it is actually going to stick around another week adn a half though.

[addicted]

we can all hope that it does stick around

[George]

My bet is that the does head down and the big bucks stay put until there is a real snow; 18" plus.  The snow can't hurt the General Season road hunters; at least there will more does and smaller bucks to look at. It does sound like the snow level is headed back up later in the week.

The lucky Nov. permit holders would rather see a normal autumn rather than an early migration.

[Dman]

  It's GREAT for the Wa. hunts coming up, but I'm a little worried now about getting over the Rockies and Cascades in November in good time. Modfire opener may be the best in years.....

[addicted]

snow is all over the news in stevens pass

[Wea300mag]

This snow needs to back off a bit, we really don't want the big migrators to come out until Dec.

[wrangler]

if the snow gets worse, and it will have to get MUCH MUCH worse over the next week, and it does kick off the migration early god help all of us.....  so many bucks will be killed it will take a decade to rebuild the gene pool. it may never be the same in the migration units. i can't stand the thought of it being that easy for all the SLOB road hunters. does anyone remember the last time an early snow kicked off the migration during the general season? only time i recall was about 12 years ago we hunted deep in the chiwawa, outa trinity and it snowed heavy for the week prior as well as during the hunt. the hills may as well have been alive, thats how many deer we saw.... that was a good 15 miles back in though.

[addicted]

it has been really cold lately but it would have to be a steady cold front blast to really kick them into high gear. if the timing we have now keeps up we'll all be putting up nice pics.

[Buckblaster]

If the snow sticks around, it's going to be real crunchy by opening day with the marginal temps. I'd rather see it melt and get some fresh stuff just before the opener.

[Cougeyes]

I agree; I dont think there will be a major push until there gets to be a lot of snow on the ground, but we're all sitting here at our computers and who knows for sure how much they got back in the wilderness areas, i'm "guessing" its not enough yet to have any major impact.  We usually get snow every october up at our camp at 6,000ft, but that isn't until I leave because I only hunt the opening weekend, last year was horrible, if i had shorts i would have put them on, hopefully this year it is cooler, wouldn't mind some of that snow on the ground though.  Good luck to all.

[jackelope]

here's a link to the weather forecast for next week for winthrop...i just pulled a town out of my arse...
http://www.accuweather.com/forecast2.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=1&zipChg=1&zipcode=98862&metric=0

and here's one for entiat...again...pulled out of my ass.
http://www.accuweather.com/forecast2.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=1&zipChg=1&zipcode=98822&metric=0

i don't think we have much to worry about assuming the deer won't migrate out with 6" of snow on the ground.

[addicted]

thanks jack. your always popping out real information with your sharply tuned opinion making you a viable source

[Ridgerunner]

Go to the NOAA website where you can identify a specific lat/long and get a 1 week forecast.  Works great.

[wrangler]

i second the noaa site. here's the address. just click the map to move the red dot around and get a "specific" forcast for certain elevations and such. to be taken with a grain of salt im sure as with most forcasts. lots of other cool chit on that site too!

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/forecast/MapClick.php?site=OTX&llon=-121.301247&rlon=-119.461247&tlat=48.999584&blat=47.157084&smap=1&mp=0&map.x=152&map.y=70

[ICEMAN]

here's a link to the weather forecast for next week for winthrop...i just pulled a town out of my arse...

Your forecasts stink!