Given an unexpected week off from work, and needing some bonding time with my boys after all the chaos of the past 2 months, I (Mark) decided it was time to take them on their first snow trip. We drove up to Truckee, in the northern Lake Tahoe area. It was a great two-day trip, just the 3 of us. We mostly went sledding at an assortment of locations, but we also went ice skating, hot tubbing, had snowball fights, and ate at a lot of fun places.
In Squaw Valley
Most of our time was spent sledding. The boys loved it, but got banged up a bit.
This is how deep the snow was in the Tahoe National Park
Trips with Dad usually involve more goodies then usual
Our hotel had a working hot tub, surrounded by snow drifts. The maintenance man was very kind and got it all set up for us at 7:30 AM in the morning. We spent an hour in it and it was a blast! The air was so cold, and the water so hot, that if we splashed around we created so much steam that I could not see Benji from across the hot tub, 6 feet away.
How cool! We are thinking about going to the snow in the end of February but I am kind of stumped about where to go and where to stay. Any advice is appreciated.
ReplyDeleteI (Mark) am no expert, since this was our first time. But it worked well to keep it simple, short and cheap. Besides food/lodging/clothes/gas, the only thing we spent money on was ice skating for $30. And two days seemed about right, as my boys started getting restless at the end of it. Stay in Truckee in a normal hotel instead of one of the resorts. Larkspur was a great hotel for $120. Also, we went in the middle of the week, so we had pretty much everything to ourselves.
ReplyDeleteAn idea I had, but didn't do, was to take Amtrak into Truckee. The train ride would add to the fun. Northern Tahoe has a huge network of shuttles to get around.
Also, you can hire a dog sledding team to take you on a tour. That would be fun when my boys are a little older.