Taken today, by me. c E.M.Smith (Permission to use non-commercially provided photo credit given. Higher res available).

There is this rather interesting “barometer” of local weather. Mount Hamilton. It has an observatory on top of it, that includes a weather station or two. It sometimes gets snow. During the ’80s and ’90s, snow had become a ‘sometimes’ thing. During the ’60s and ’70s it was more of a frequent thing. In the last couple of years, we’ve gone back to frequent.

Folks sometimes would go ‘up the hill’ to play in the snow. Then in the early ’80s the area became subject to ‘snow closures’. Too many folks on a very narrow road to please the ‘locals’ who pressured their local politicians who decided to keep everyone else out. So you get to show your license to the poor cop who ends up stuck at the bottom of the hill…