22 March 2009 - Sun Top

Octo and I have been thinking about a spring trip back to Lake Eleanor but the state park web page says that Sun Top snow park is closed by blow downs. That report has been up all winter though, and a lot of the lower elevation snow is clearing out, and I was wondering if the road might be open by now. So Huck and I decided to pop down there this weekend and find out.

It looks like we got there pretty soon after the clearing crew. The road was open to the sno-park, and plowed for several miles beyond that, although the gate was locked.

There's plenty of snow on the road passed the part they've plowed, but it was pretty soft and may not last much longer. It didn't look like anyone had been up the road very far in quite a while.

It was OK on skis, even though there were quite a few trees across the road. Pretty tough going for the dog though, and that was one tired puppy by the time we got back to the car.