Yesterday Timber and I had the longest snowboarding daytrip ever. It all started when I got up at 4 AM to start getting ready. After Timber and I both got ready, we got on the road around 5 AM then dropped Wookie off at Spots. Then we went and picked up Jessica. After that we were on the road headed for Tahoe. When we got to Colfax we saw that it was snowing and that highway 80 was closed. We asked the cop manning the highway why it was closed and he told us it was closed due to accidents. After we saw that the road was closed we were crushed at the thought of not being able to go snowboarding. So we parked somewhere and weighed our options. We could either turn around and check out free museum day in Sacramento, go watch a bunch of movies, or try to get around the road block and go snowboarding. We opted to try to get around the road block by taking highway 174 to Grass Valley, then highway 20 over to highway 80 near Emigrant Gap. We successfully made it around the road block and slowly but surely made our way to Alpine Meadows. But by the time we got there (11:30 AM), all we could do was snowboard a half day. So that's what we did. But before we started snowboarding we had lunch and hung out with my friend Julia who was there with some other friends. The snow was nice, but it was snowing pretty hard and the wind was blowing even harder. It was very difficult to see, so we had to take it nice and slow. After we were done, we got on the road and were hit by near white out conditions. It took us 2 hours to get from Truckee to Dutch Flat, which generally takes roughly 40 minutes. It is probably not the worst snow conditions I've ever driven in, but it was close. Things got much better after we got low enough to get out of the snow. We stopped for dinner in Roseville on the way back home, and eventually got home at 11:30 PM. Overall it was a very long day.
Posted by troutm8 at February 3, 2008 10:56 PM