Timm Times: California Ski Trip

Saturday, March 8, 2014

California Ski Trip

Brian and I took a ski trip to California for our birthdays this year. We had such a great time and had incredible weather and snow conditions. It's been a dry year down there, but 2 storms came through right before our trip so we got lucky! We drove down Saturday morning and stayed in Placerville, just outside of Sacramento. It was a long drive, but the new car did great and was really comfortable. Sunday morning we got up and skied Sierra at Tahoe. We thought we were going to score free tickets with our season pass to Timberline because when you look online there is a "Powder Aliance" that gets you 3 free days at various Mtns in the NW and Sierra was listed. Well, what we didn't notice was the writing at the bottom of our pass that said "no powder alliance". Bummer! It didn't matter too much, though, because Sierra is a great mountain, it just would have been cool to take advantage of that program if we could. After skiing at Sierra we headed to June Lake where we stayed for a week at the Heidelberg Inn. June Lake is a really small town, but centered in the Seirra Mountains which are absolutely stunning. We had a gorgeous view of from our condo. Monday we got settled, went grocery shopping for the week and took a long walk to check out the place. We ended up walking to June Mtn since it was only a mile down the road. We decided to go in and talk to someone because we heard from the locals that it was a great place to ski. To our surprise we were offered 2 free tickets to go up on the chairlift to the "chalet" and check it out for ourselves. What a view! We were really impressed and decided to take up everyone's recommendation and ski there one day. So, Tuesday we skied at Mammoth (which was amazing) and then Wed we skied at June 1/2 day, which was plenty because we were the only one's on the mtn. We hit the slopes hard and got a lot of great skiing in. Turns out they have a data base that connects with June and we found out we took 25 runs at Mammoth which aren't short! Thursday we rented snowshoes and walked around Silver Lake. The pictures don't do justice for what the scenery actually looks like, it was so beautiful everywhere we went. We left Friday and had a long drive back home, but it was worth it to have one more day in June Lake and to come home and see the kids. We missed them a ton, but we knew they were well taken care of by our parents. We couldn't have taken this trip just Brian and I without their help and we are so greateful for that. The kids have great memories from that week and so do we.