Snow Day

Violet is always wanting to go somewhere, get out in nature, and she was hoping to get to the snow this year. Here, the trick is actually having a snow trip is getting snow, and then having the roads opened without chain restrictions.

We had a big storm last week, with the local higher mountains measuring snow in the feet.

We thought of going Monday after Vi got out of school, and she worked extra hard on Sunday evening to get ahead in her online work. But Stace stayed home with a bad back, so we delayed our trip a day.

Our timing was divine - the CHP took down the roadblocks later on Tuesday, so I believe we would have been unable to get to the top of Mt. Pinos on Monday. (On the weekends, so many people come up from L.A. that they don't even let non-local-residents past Frazier Park, the town nearest the 5.)

On this Tuesday afternoon, we had the place practically to ourselves! At home, we were having a heatwave, with temps in the 80s, but here, the snow was deep, with temps in the 50s. 

Violet went wandering, and started creating...

a different type of snowman.

Look how deep! That's a fire pit in the center. Walking was a great workout, as we sunk two feet deep every couple of steps.

Violet was very appreciative of our snow day together. It really is pretty up here.