Castle Peak

This week a forecast, so a guess

1. Today snow Areas Of Frost then Sunny, 40°F
2. Sat muddy Sunny, 47°F
3. Sun muddy Widespread Frost then Sunny, 49°F
4. Mon dry Sunny, 45°F
5. Tue dry Sunny, 46°F
6. Wed dry Mostly Sunny, 45°F
7. Thu dry Mostly Sunny, 44°F

Snow up top melts out by our math, then the ground needs a day or two. api.weather.gov · 10:57am How the forecast works

From riders and runners

1. No reports in the last two days.

Why today's call

• Snow likely above ~8,810 ft (trail tops out at 9,109 ft): Mt Rose Ski Area SNOTEL (8,810 ft, 39 km away) reported 3 in of snow on Oct 22.

  “652:NV:SNTL 2026-10-22 SNWD=3 in, WTEQ=0.6 in” wcc.sc.egov.usda.gov · fetched Oct 23, 10:57am

Also reported

• NWS Today: Areas Of Frost then Sunny, high 42°F.

  api.weather.gov · fetched Oct 23, 10:57am

• Likely muddy: 0.40 in of precipitation on Oct 21–22 at Css Lab (SNOTEL, 2 km away).

  “428:CA:SNTL PRCP 2026-10-21=0.3 in, 2026-10-22=0.1 in” wcc.sc.egov.usda.gov · fetched Oct 23, 10:57am

Trail

Managed by

Tahoe National Forest

Official status

fs.usda.gov

Trail info

fs.usda.gov

Trail data

Draft, not yet reviewed

9 sources

1. ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ds_mark.prl
2. truckeedonnerlandtrust.org/donner-lake-rim-trail
3. fs.usda.gov/r05/tahoe/projects/158225
4. carto.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/geonames/MapServer/5/query
5. epqs.nationalmap.gov/v1/json
6. openstreetmap.org/way/534096615
7. openstreetmap.org/way/226199725
8. openstreetmap.org/way/822623652
9. openstreetmap.org/way/299527716

Recent mornings

1. Fri Oct 23Snow
2. Thu Oct 22Snow
3. Wed Oct 21Unknown
4. Tue Oct 20Unknown
5. Mon Oct 19Likely dry
6. Sun Oct 18Unknown
7. Sat Oct 17Likely dry
8. Fri Oct 16Likely dry