Snow at Frazier Park

With the winter storms we have been having, the snow level has fallen down to the point that snow was within minutes of the house. The roads were open so we drove up to Frazier Park to let the kids play in the snow.


The road up to Mt. Pinos was closed unless you had chains, so we stopped along side the road at the Flying J truck stop. It seems like half of LA must have had the same idea because the crowds were enormous.

(Click to make the panorama bigger) Here's a panorama of the area where we stopped. The truck stop was swamped. I don't think the truck drivers or truck stop people were too happy about it because they were driving around chasing people out of the no parking zones. Though, it was no use, there were just too many people. Every time they cleared an area, it was filled back up within minutes.


Brandon didn't enjoy the cold very much.


Here's Emily enjoying the snow. I didn't get any pictures of Sarah and Ben since I was spending most of my time with Brandon and Emily.


On the way back, we stopped at "Vista Del Lago" near Pyramid Lake. There is a very nice visitors center with a small museum talking about water usage at the lake. Ah,. a nice warm visitor's center...


The mountains around the lake were snow-capped. This is about 20 minutes from our house.