Big Bear Snow 5

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.

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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 3

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…

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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.

Big Bear Snow 2

Big Bear Snow 2. A few years ago I had to make a second trip up to Big Bear, CA to obtain photos that had not turned out from the day before. The prior pictures were too dark, as the sun had set, so I went up the following day and re-shot the pictures. I decided on the way to take some pictures for my own personal use along the way. This is one of them.

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Big Bear Snow 2

Interestingly, when I had been up on the mountain the previous day, there was no snow fall, no snow on the ground, it was a sunny fall day. This is just about 15 hours later.

Big Bear Snow

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This is from a few years ago when I had to go back up to …

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