It had been raining the past few days, but we got out for a bit on Thanksgiving to do rain hike in Griffith Park. But what I’d really been waiting for was to get up into the forest. The snow levels came down to about 3,000’! We headed up Angeles Crest around 8:30 am and started seeing snow just past Clear Creek Station. We went as far the 6,000’ Day Use Area (just before Winston Peak and Cloudburst Summit) which is where they had the snow gates closed. The road was clear until that point with just little patches of snow/ice here and there, and although we carried chains we didn’t need to use them. We parked the car, geared up in our snowshoes and got to climbing up the hill. There was no trail so we broke our own. We snowshoed up to a high point near John Henge rocks. Our elevation top out was 6,600’. It was a steep, but short climb and enough to give us a good work out. The snow was super deep. We were both in awe of seeing the forest covered in snow at such low elevations. We took in all in and thoroughly enjoyed this gift of an amazingly beautiful early snowfall. I hope this is a precursor of what’s to come this winter!