It was a beautiful Sunday here in Central California.  The two younger kids clamored to go to the mountains, and of course it doesn't take too much encouragement to get me to go. 

Below, the road east toward the Sierras.  The grass is green, and the sun is shining.

It didn't take long, or much elevation gain, to hit snow line, and then it just got thicker and thicker.  Here, we had about a three and a half foot berm to climb over to get above the road.  Bear River Reservoir is down in the hole below.  The temp here was about 20 degrees.  Cold but not crazy cold.

On to Carson Pass.  At about Caples lake it clouded over and began to snow lightly.  At the pass, it was a balmy 12 degrees, with very light snow falling.  A big difference from the sunny central valley below where we started.

The cabin at the pass was deeply buried in nice snow.  They say we have about 140% of the normal snow pack for this time of year.  Looks like that would be accurate.

Here we are at the top, ready to retreat to the warmer land below.  Great fun for young and old.