What a trip we had! It started snowing the night before we went up to Steven’s pass and it didn’t stop snowing the entire 5 days we were there! I think there was close to 5 feet before we left. Hope lodge was almost buried. Well okay, not really.
Other than the unbelievable powder runs we had, there was fun to be found at Hope lodge as well. Tim got to ride with “the boys” and Kayla got to hang with all the 8-11 year old kids. She really enjoyed their company asking them repeatedly “what is your name again”, and " do you want to sit with me?". It was very sweet.
Julia was still rather sick when we first got there, so she was a bit clingy to her mommy. We knew she started feeling better when we found her scavenging food from the floor. Oh, yum. She was a trooper and we were so happy to see her feeling better again and eating after 5 days of no solid foods. Julia didn’t get out in the snow much, but her big sister did and surely ate enough snow for both of them.
This is Tim and Kayla heading down to the car right before we tried to leave. We did manage to get out, but only after two+ hours of digging. The snowplow didn’t quite make it to the side road, and the snow was so high it kept piling up under our car requiring us to dig. When we finally made it to the highway, we found out the pass was closed and might be for another 4 hours or so. Yikes.
We made the slow descent the other direction to the 59er diner for some nice greasy food (we deserved it after all the digging). We hung out there long enough for the pass to open, and then drove the long slow drive home. I must say that the Rav4 drove great in the snow (except that super deep stuff on the side road) and I am so happy with the car choice.