2 Feet of Snow on Spring Break

We went to Tahoe for 5 days over Spring Break, and spent two of them hunkered down in our cabin waiting out an incredible late winter storm. It dropped 25 inches of snow between Saturday and Sunday, with horrendous winds (60 mph on Saturday at the top of Alpine Meadows, which convinced us not to ski that day). It was fun in a way to be forced to stay in all day on Sunday, not wanting to venture out in the car, drinking coffee and sodas, reading and watching TV, just passing the time with nothing to do. Monday the skiing at Alpine was incredible; the snow was so light and powdery and squeeky and cold that even though in the late afternoon the temperature had risen considerably above freezing, it never got slushy. Tuesday we came back, and had the odd experience of going from 15 degrees and ice and snow in the morning to a glorious green warm spring day through the Central Valley and back into Sonoma County.

If you like to see snow, pictures are below; larger versions are here, here, and here.