The people who post the pictures at
Mountain High North Pole Tubing Park are big, fat liars! The park posts daily pictures on their website. Below is the picture posted the day before we visited the park (with lots of beautiful snow), alongside the picture that we took a few hours after the park's posting.
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| How those liars at Mountain High said it looked. |
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Now I suppose I should try to fair, so I will say they once we arrived on site, the resort did have staff posted at the entrance encouraging us to check out the slope before paying $20 for a 2 hour run. And, they did let us know the wait times were long. The problem was we had already driven 90 minutes with two anxious kids and it was hard not to at least give it a try. Since I emailed them two days in advance (
which their website promises replies within 48 hours -- um, I'm still waiting) and tried calling multiple times before making the trip, I'm sticking with the assessment that they are LIARS!
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| How it really looked. |
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Heading up from the northern rim of Los Angeles, once you turn off the 138 Pear Blossom Highway, and start heading up into the
Angeles National Forest the terrain changes entirely from barren, dusty desert to tall pines. The snow sprinkled throughout the forest floor was beautiful. The slopes were packed with skiers. We managed with a layered sweatshirts and Alex still had a blast gently coasting down the hills.
Next winter -- instead of waiting until March when the weather the same afternoon at our house was 80 degrees, we'll head to parts of the country that have real winters with weeks of snow.
