You may have grown up in Detroit, Omaha, or some other place where snow is just “winter” and not “a natural disaster Instagrammed by tourists,” but Southern California mountain driving is a different beast entirely. Yes, they have snow in the Midwest. But what they do not have is a million switchbacks, a thousand feet …
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 …