i am on my way to big bear today
it is wednesday afternoon and
when i left my house the temperature was
66 degrees and i'm looking at the
temperatures right now in big bear
and it is 46 degrees i am expecting snow
in big bear i do have my snow chains
prepared
i'm not sure if there's going to be a
checkpoint um if there is i'm prepared
for it
and i think we are let's see about an
hour and 15 minutes away and so far it's
still super sunny and warm
um on this side because we're not up in
the mountains yet
and zoe is i don't know if you can see
her
she's sleeping she's taking a nap we are
taking the
back route to big bear instead of the
main way to get in and it was a little
bit tricky finding it on google maps
it kept wanting to route us the normal
way and i couldn't get it
to do the back ways so i went on apple
maps
and apple maps actually gave direct
three different directions and i had the
one that i wanted where
so it goes up to 15 you go through apple
valley and then eventually you take
the 18 and then it gets you to the back
entrance at big bear and apparently
this is kind of like the way the locals
go or the people who are familiar with
big bear
they go this route because it's less
traffic and also it's less windy
so we made it into big bear city and i'm
about five minutes away
from the airbnb there is snow up here
the roads are clear though so we didn't
have to put on our
tower chain which is nice because i
really was not looking forward to doing
that
we made it but uh our driveway has a
little bit of ice so we can't
no ice no so we can't really
what do you call it when the tires keep
on slipping oh that we went through
but it's cold i roll down the windows
good morning well actually it's more
like um
afternoon it's almost noon and we're now
heading out to
the visitor center to pick up an
adventure house
we want to check out one of the trails
and in order
to park there you have to have a parking
pass or a venture pass and it's
five dollars
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we are at woodland trail it is about
one and a half mile interpretive
loop we're trying to find the trailhead
i think it's
this way it says right
i'm not here sure where the loop
or maybe this is a loop i don't know i
guess we'll find out
it's been about 10-15 minutes and i
still can't figure out where this trail
starts there's like
no markers or no indicators of where it
starts
it looks like there's 16 points to hit
but i don't see any
because it's an interpretive trail but i
don't see any markers anywhere
this is probably the weirdest hike i've
ever been on where there's no
explanation of where it starts so
we may just kind of like hang around for
a little bit
and then go somewhere else because we
can't quite figure out this hike
we never really figured out that trail
but we had fun there anyways um
in this one area where there's a lot of
snow and joey so we
did a lot of um fat plague fetch there
so now we're heading off to
cougar crest trail which is about four
minutes away from this trail
the trail that we're just at and um this
one's a really long trail i think it's
like almost six miles so we're not gonna
do this entire
entire trail we're just gonna go there
and check it out and
see what this one looks like
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so this one looks like the
the path is pretty clear on where it
starts so
i see a map right there oh they even
have a dog wait station there that's
nice
north shore
i think we just passed by that but it's
closed okay we're right here
so i guess this trail goes all the way
up
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slushy
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so instead of doing the entire hike
we're kind of scoping out where we can
go sledding so it did bring a sled
trying to find a nice patch of snow for
sliding
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so we spent i want to say at least an
hour just sledding
we have the entire place to ourselves i
think probably because
it is a little icy so if you're not
careful i guess it could be kind of
dangerous
so now we're gonna check out the lake um
i heard it's a really beautiful walk
there and they have paved trails
we saw quite a few people there when we
drove by earlier
so we're just gonna go and check it out
so we went to two different trails the
woodland hill trail and the cougar crest
trail
cougar crest trail is i think i enjoyed
that one the most just because we were
able to find a really good spot to go
sledding
and then afterwards we went to the lake
and just you know walked across
uh or walked along the lake a little bit
that was nice because there was there
were some ducks there that
zoe um like to stare at
she doesn't really chase them though i
think she knows she can't really
catch them because they're in the water
i think there's plenty to do in big bear
with your dog there's a lot of dog
friendly things to do
and all of the trails there are dog
friendly and if you
want to go there just to you know do
hikes and spend time with your dog
there's plenty to do there
even if you're not someone that wants to
go there for a ski or
snowboarding i wish i had one more day
to explore a little bit more of the
other trails in big bear
um one day just wasn't enough i think
because we spent a lot of our time
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