Big Bear Snow 12 is maybe my favorite picture from this trip. You see the sun poking through the snow dropping clouds and the ski lift in the background which means visitors will soon be coming to hit the slopes. This helps drive their local economy, but this day there were no skiers that I saw.
Big Bear Snow 12
Big Bear Snow 10 is after I had walked forever in the snow to the target location in running shoes, shorts and a t-shirt. It honestly wasn’t that cold, all that Norse blood running through me maybe, lol. I had to walk because right about the spot where I took this picture, the VW started sliding down the hill. While I walked to shoot the picture, my boy Scotty turned the car back around for the trip back. Here he waits all toasty roasty, lol. We didn’t expect snow, and when we ran into it we didn’t expect it to be this much in the few short hours it had fallen. Scotty had not had the Jetta long, and wanted to to see how he, and it, would do on mountain roads. Lastly, I left him behind in the warmth of the car because it was my gig, and there was no reason for both of us to die of exposure. Oh, yeah, a local drove past me when I walked back, he’s all bundled up and I’m dressed for summer. He just shook his head in the “Crazy flatlander” way they do up there.
Big Bear Snow 10
The trip was routine, on was was a cloudy nut not cold day in the desert, and had been warm and sunny in the mountains the day before. Little did I know I’d soon be trudging through snow soon wearing only shorts and a t-shirt. The locals must have thought I was a nut case.
Big Bear Snow 6
Big Bear Snow 5, the fifth picture in this series. Sorry, they are no longer in any numerical order, I simply didn’t have then numbered right. This photo is where I hikes up to in the snow wearing only shorts and a t-shirt, having come up not knowing there would be snow.
Big Bear Snow 5
The prior day I had been in the same location, and it had been a warm fall day, sunny, no snow falling or on the ground at all. Crazy how quickly that changed, especially in the eyes of a desert dweller from the flat lands.
Big Bear Snow 4 was taken on the move from the passenger window as Scotty drove me back up the mountain to obtain new photos, as the ones the day before were too dark.
Big Bear Snow 4
I was surprised that so much snow could fall so fast, because the day before when I had been up here there was no snow falling, and no snow on the ground, a warm fall day.
Big Bear Snow 3. This set of photos, by the way, are pictures I took on a trip to Big Bear, Ca, a couple years ago. I had been on the mountain the previous day but had run out of time and light to get clear photos of all the objectives, having gotten lost several times…
Big Bear Snow 3
The final stop was so dark that I couldn’t get clear photos, so I had to return the following day. The first day up had been clear and warm with zero snowfall or snow on the ground, and I was not expecting snow at all, going up dressed in a t-shirt, shorts and running shoes. The second trip my boy, Scotty, volunteered to drive me up as he had the day off, and he wanted to test his new Jetta out on the mountain roads. He wasn’t prepared for snow either. In fact as we neared the target to be photographed his car began sliding down the hill in the ice, so I had to get out and walk the rest of the way in the snow. This picture was taken just after I had gotten out to begin walking. The target was just around the bend on the far left.
