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I Want to go Snow Wheeling!!
November 13, 2015
7:04 pm
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Gregulator
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I want to go snow wheeling. Who wants to take me out?

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November 13, 2015
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Gonna snow good on Sunday!

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November 14, 2015
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BKGM Jeepers said

Gonna snow good on Sunday!

Sounds fun. You talking about going somewhere Sunday?

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November 14, 2015
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I could possibly be available tomorrow?? What's you thinking

November 14, 2015
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Anything? ?

November 14, 2015
6:23 pm
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Did you get scared? ?

November 14, 2015
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scoped said

Did you get scared? ?

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November 14, 2015
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I'm not scared. Lol. Let's meet up at shell station in pollock and see what's up iron mountain at 9am? Or should we go up 80?

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November 14, 2015
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Maybe we should meet later. After looking at the weather, storm hits around noon. So maybe 11am at the shell? Play until you have to go home.

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November 14, 2015
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I shall check here tomorrow in the AM and we will decide if we should go out or wait till another day

November 14, 2015
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I'm in.

November 15, 2015
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We're going to go up and check it out see if there's anything fun

November 15, 2015
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Well let me know if there's any sort of plan

November 15, 2015
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I was in Reno this weekend and drove home through the storm back home.

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November 15, 2015
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Sorry for our lack of communication Jon!! We are home. I will fill in the details later. Lots and lots of people and stuck everywhere...

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November 15, 2015
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So, Jeff and I headed up to Mormon Immigrant Trail at 11pm today. We stopped in at the Shell Station in Pollock Pines to see if anyone would meet up with us but no one showed so we headed to MET.

There wasn't much snow at the lake off Sly Park. We ended up driving about 14 miles up MET before hitting any real snow. But once we found it, we were in it!! It pretty much snowed the entire time. We hung out for a bit, played with my dog who came along for the fun, Jeff drove up to the gate to check it out. There was a decent amount of snow by the gate.

The snow was nice and sticky great for making snowballs. We decided to turn around and head down the hill. We stopped at the Kiosk to air up. No snow there at the start but then it started to hail really bad so we beat feet and headed down to Sly Park. We soon were stopped in traffic as a car decided to go off the road and hit a power line which was down across the road. We had to wait for SMUD to show up before the Ranger would let us through.

All in all a good day and lots of people up MET. Hopefully it won't be that way all winter.

We did run into Kyle and talked with him for about 15 minutes. He said he really likes the Kiosk work the club did on Strawberry and he can't wait to under go the work to re open the trail next summer.
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November 15, 2015
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Very nice!
Looked like a great day. We only saw one accident on hwy 80. It was on the other direction so it only took us 6 hrs to get home...

Kathleen and Brad

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