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More snow overnight made for a really beautiful day. It was perfect conditions to light off a couple of big piles of slash material and woody debris that needed to be burned.
This is quite a bit of snow for Forked Meadow.
The piles burning at night in the snow really added to the ambiance of the meadows.
After the epic adventure in making it to Forked Meadow through the middle of the snowstorm, the next morning found us in a winter wonderland while we started to work on Thanksgiving dinner.
Meanwhile inside we were busy getting ready for dinner.
But outside it was quite a winter wonderland. And the epic amount of snow at the back of the house was starting to form an igloo!
What a magical winter wonderland!!
We had a challenging adventure in getting to Forked Meadow for thanksgiving. The state highway folks were enforcing 100% chains at Cressman’s so we put our square link boron alloy chains on the truck, dropped the air pressure down in the tires, locked the hubs, and had quite the adventure. The road to Shaver Lake was in decent shape with packed snow but once we turned onto Dinkey Creek Road it was 2+ feet of unplowed snow that we were pushing through. We dropped the truck into low range and went along at about 5 mph through the snow storm to make it in. At one point we encountered a truck that was abandoned in the middle of the road with no people around. It was under a big drift of snow.
Until the big snow blowers came through later that night or early the next morning, no one was getting in or out of the area except for us.
