Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Valentines 09 Usual place with unusual results

We started out by taking a four day weekend! Yay! We were supposed to drop the Cruiser off at Mudraks in Sonoma for a T-case rebuild, but the weather forecast for Cobb was 100% chance of snow so we opted to take the limping Cruiser to Cobb and drop it off at Mudraks on Monday on the way home. We did have to drop the Saab at the Adams Family house in Napa Thanks Mig and Susan!. On the way to Susan and Miguel's we encountered some serious hail:

hail in Sonoma


Continuing on to Cobb was uneventful with no snow over Mt. St. Helena. We started to wonder if we would really need the truck for the 4x4 capabilities. That is until we got to Cobb . The snow level started just as we entered Cobb, and we new we were in for some fun.

Cobb is the snow level

The Trees were all covered in snow.

From our deck in Cobb

The deck had a nice layer of the white stuff. Luckily the driveway was navigable.

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Now on to Boggs for a hike.

The Drive up (five minutes from the house) was easy –

driving Boggs

Where does the trail start?

Trail?  Boggs

Good thing we have the Human GPS to show us the way

Hiking Boggs

Me and Winnie sure don’t know where we are going

Let's go for a hike!

Katherine took some cool pictures

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She likes the contrasty pics

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Saturday was Valentines day! I surprised Katherine with a special card by the bed for her to discover – I think she liked it.

We went to Middletown for a romantical dinner at the Boars Breath Inn. The food was most excellent and we made it home with no problems during the stormy night.

Saturday night snowed all night long. I woke up at 3am and it was really blowing every which way. I new we would be covered in the morning. Usually the snow melts off the driveway by mid day but this time it didn’t and we had to shovel the whole thing just to be able to drive down.

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We headed back to Boggs for a snow/Rain hike and drive.

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We started our hike from the campground. Nobody camping in this weather.

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Here are a few Land Cruiser beauty shots –

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Can you tell that I have a love affair with my truck?

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On the way out we came across some locals building an anatomically correct Snow Woman-

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Unfortuntaly all the snow turned to rain on Sunday and Monday but we had a fantastic time.

Go here for a slide show http://s383.photobucket.com/albums/oo275/elcabritos/cobbmtfeb09/?albumview=slideshow

Peace Out!

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