Five Valentine’s Days ago I spent my VD stranded on a mountain highway for eight hours as our local mountains sustained nine inches of rain in one day. I’ve been driving in the mountains of southern California my whole life and I can definitely tell you some winter driving Big Bear Lake tips. Anyone who …
Winter. Its somehow already the second week in February and our chilly mountain town has heated up on this snowy Sunday to a balmy thirty-two degrees. And we are thrilled because last week it was three degrees when I got up, bundled up in my fleece balaclava. North Face jacket, leg warmers and my two …
Living in a resort town at seven thousand feet you get very used to pine cones, pine needles and tree sap. Being a mountain girl, in our household, we use pine cones a lot more as fire starters then decorations but normally just like clockwork when we have friends come to visit they see a …
I heard a rumor that today was supposed to be winter. I checked both weather web pages I use and both said eighty percent chance of snow today and rain and snow all week. Yea, I thought to myself, we may just get a week of winter! And then the sun came out. Stupid sunshine …
Lets face it. Some people just don’t “Do” winter. These guys need to try a day of snowshoe fun! These city folk just don’t love a winter wonderland the way that I do. You may find yourself stuck in a chilly mountain cabin for those cold and dreary months of January and February just aching …