(from 3/15/10)
now that we are able to get to tahoe on the weekend, we plan to take advantage as much as possible over the next month. that included going up this past weekend. we had heard all week that there was possibility of rain on friday in the bay area (which almost always translates into snow in the mountains), but the forecasters didn't make much of a mention or big deal about it - until friday.
now that we are able to get to tahoe on the weekend, we plan to take advantage as much as possible over the next month. that included going up this past weekend. we had heard all week that there was possibility of rain on friday in the bay area (which almost always translates into snow in the mountains), but the forecasters didn't make much of a mention or big deal about it - until friday.
needless to say, we had not planned on a big storm when we decided when we would leave to drive up, and we got caught. thankfully, everything worked out in that we didn't leave until late afternoon, we had dinner in auburn (after a bit of a fiasco leaving a restaurant when the 20 minute wait time turned into an hour - not good with two kiddos) and started the mountain climb after that. we hit what we thought was chain control traffic not too long after setting out and decided to exit and head in a back way.
what we found at the exit was that they had shut down the freeway and didn't know when it would reopen. we headed off the crowded exit and scrambled to figure out plan b (sleeping in the car and/or waiting it out did not make the list). we found a dog friendly motel along the back route and headed there. after a reasonable night's sleep considering the circumstances, we left for tahoe early the next morning.
the good news is that we were able to head out early enough (thanks to young children waking up early no matter the circumstances), that we made it to the feige (our rental in tahoe) just in time for evan to throw on ski clothes and catch the 8:45 shuttle to the mountain. he was on the slopes just after the lifts opened at 9am and got a great morning of skiing. i dropped greta off later in the morning to join him for a few runs and she did pretty well on the groomed trails even with all the new snow.
all in all a great weekend trip up to tahoe. it's nice for me even though i don't get to ski as much because there's never a to do list when your up there aside from get to the mountain, eat, sleep, relax and have fun.
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