Snow, snow and more snow

It has been a loooong day, but we made it back to our apartment in Mountain View. This morning we were still at about 10,000 feet (3,000m) at the Tioga Pass Resort. As forecasted it had been snowing all night long and it was still snowing in the morning. The staff of the resort advised us to move out as soon as possible because the avalanche danger would increase rapidly. We started on skis then the resort snowcat took us past the dangerous section (Marie-Catherine and Juliane inside the cabin and Sharad and me outside :-S). We skied the last section back down to the car.

We then had to dig out the car, put on the chains, and go. We drove about 150 miles with the chains (we had to go over several passes above 7,000 feet and even 8,000 feet).

Our stay at the Tioga Pass Resort was really nice even if we didn't ski that much. We had the opportunity to take a free "beacon clinic" (i.e. practicing to retrieve an avalanche beacon buried under the snow) with an American Alpine Institute guide!

That's it for tonight!

Go & MC