This past weekend I stayed with yet another ski club, the Snowdrifters in Truckee. They are the youngest group I've encountered so far and and their house has an energy I really like.
Saturday I drove to Squaw and hit their very windy, icy slopes for about 3 hours. The place has great terrain, but the conditions were really tough, like a 3000+ acre version of Wildcat in NH.
Laura made Margaritas when I returned and made all sorts of snacks for everyone.
Sunday came and I headed off to Kirkwood. It south of Lake Tahoe and it took over an hour to drive there. I was fortunate enough to run into a large group of people from a Solar panel manufacturing company, they had a few 'guides' among them that showed me some hidden gems of terrain at Kirkwood, areas that would take a season for me to find on my own.
On my way back to the City I discovered a really amazing part of California: Calaveras County, Stanislaus National Forest and San Joaquin County. I only found out on Monday that I was just north of Yosemite National Park. What a treat this part of the state is, between Lake Tahoe and Stockton.
A nice treat was Patty, who was visiting californis and skiing with the group. She and I did a bunch of runs together at Kirkwood and she called me Tuesday afternoon, the 17th. We met up and walked through the Haight-Ashbury part of town. We walked through part of Golden Gate Park, then drove up to Twin Peaks for an amazing view of the city. At 11PM we had some food and she took BARt back to her friends house. I woudn'd ahve seen Haight-Ashbury or any of that with out her visit. I'll have pictures of this night out on the town in a week or so.
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