Snowy trail at Long Ridge
We recently had a cold snap combined with a few days of heavy rain, and that meant...SNOW! Well, not here, but since we live at the foot of the Santa Cruz Mountains the snow was just a short drive away.
This is Julian at Long Ridge, up on Skyline/35 above Palo Alto. It's one of my favorite places to hike when it's NOT snowing, as you hike through beautiful forest, up a big hill, and then BOOM! Spectacular, expansive views of the gorgeous Pacific coastline, Monterey Bay, the works.
We didn't get that far on this occasion, we just hiked down into a little valley where the snow was a few feet deep, threw snowballs, made a snowman, slid down the hill a few times, crackled ice under our feet on the little wooden bridge, etc.
Adrian has never seen snow and Julian had only seen a smallish dirty patch of slush when he was about 2yo, so this was great for them, they LOVED it. Very glad we don't live in snow though, since after about two hours of it they were totally done, and bring on the hot chocolate already, OK?
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