New Record for Mt. Rainier?

...there is no excuse for the new record.

Decreasing avy and little new snow forecast tonite, looks like the 'deciders' are going to have to get creative to extend the 'record' to nine-straight days, or even run the table for the rest of the month.  It's been a while since they had a utility failure; that might do the trick! 

Probably they'll just revert to the tried-and-true noon openings to whittle down the die-hards...

From Supertopo:

The Old Forest Service and the Modern Forest Service decided to have a canoe race on the Missouri River. Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their peak performance before the race. On the big day, the Old Forest Service won by a mile. The Modern Forest Service, very discouraged and depressed, decided to investigate the reason for the crushing defeat. A management team made up of senior management was formed to investigate and recommend appropriate action.

Their conclusion was the Old Forest Service had 8 people rowing and 1 person steering, while the Modern Forest Service team had 8 people steering and 1 person rowing. Feeling a deeper study was in order, Modern Forest Service management hired a consulting company and paid them a large amount of money for a second opinion. They advised, in the National Rowing Plan, that too many people were steering the boat, while not enough people were rowing.

Not sure how to utilize this information, but wanting to prevent another loss to the Old Forest Service, the rowing team's management structure was totally reorganized to 4 steering supervisors, 3 area steering superintendants and 1 assistant superintendent steering manager, with none of them having any rowing experience.

They also implemented a new performance system that would make the 1 person rowing the boat more professional and accountable. It was called the "IFPM Rowing Team Program", with meetings, classes and deadlines for the rower and a requirement to take 15 more courses on AgLearn (on-line training). There was discussion of getting new paddles, canoes and other equipment, extra vacation days for practices and bonuses, but it never occured to anyone to add additional rowers.

The next year the Old Forest Service won by two miles. Humiliated, the Modern Forest Service management abandoned the National Rowing Plan, laid off the rower for not meeting the deadline, halted development of a new canoe, sold the paddles, and canceled all capital investments for new equipment. The money saved was distributed to the Albuquerque Service Center as bonuses and the next year's racing team was outsourced to private contractors.

@T.Eastman: as a multi-decade FS employee (now retired): LMAO with tears in my eyes! Also just crying for the total degeneration of performance in the federal agencies--many causes, no solutions; we moved from "can do" to "not permitted to do".

From the telemetry it looks like it's clear and sunny at Muir today, and the gate is not opening.

and the parking lot camera no longer is working ...

and the parking lot camera no longer is working ...

Maybe it is working--the Park's projection of conditions for 6 February 2036 (date on the picture): a snow-filled parking lot with no cars or plows. Is this the new general management plan?

Are you posting on their twitter page?