Here is a copy of the report sent to Kyle less the photos.:
Around 8:30am club members started gathering in the parking lot of a gas station in Pollock Pines. A club member drove to the Camino forest service office to pick up the road patrol materials from Kyle Johnson of El Dorado National Forest. Within minutes 19 club vehicles had gathered a quick drivers meeting was held and the group headed up the hill. Snow was already on the road at Pollock Pines and even down to lake level at the western end of MET. At approximately 9:15am we made it to the intersection of Park Creek Rd (ELD-8😎 where there was still 3-4 inches of snow in the road (4,300ft elev.)
After setting up the info station, one of the first vehicles through was a couple of friends in a Posche SUV who were intending to go skiing at Kirkwood and their GPS and one of their phones had suggested the MET as an alternative to 50 with traffic and chain control. After a discussion with the driver and passenger it was found that they hade driven through in the early morning and gotten stuck in the snow somewhere beyond North South Rd. It took the driver and passenger nearly 2 hours of digging to get their vehicle out of the snow. This was a perfect reminder of why we are out there to let people know the road is closed.
A portion of the Group headed up the hill to explore the snow. About 11:30AM they returned to begin prep for lunch. A prospect from our club obtained membership status by providing a pulled pork sandwich lunch for those in attendance. After lunch, hot-coco, and roasting of marshmallows, 2 smaller groups broke up to again head up the mountain. The snow began to pick up about 3:30PM so the last group coming down the hill stopped and talked to a few lesser equipped vehicles about turning around.
The booth was operated until 4:00pm when teardown started but we continued to hand out info to passing vehicles until approximately 4:30pm.
In all, the vast majority of vehicles that went through were 4x4 and knew what they were doing. There were a number of stock type 4x4 vehicles taking kids to play in the snow but most were stopped before North South Rd and the deep snow at that point. About a half dozen vehicles came through attempting to reach HWY 88. In all the club had more than 20 volunteers passing out information to 164 vehicles. Outside of a few snowmobiles and 21 cars, appropriately equipped vehicles were the majority encountered.
