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JustAnotherGen

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2. Like my grandparents

Reply to wolfie001 (Reply #1)

Thu Feb 19, 2026, 01:51 PM

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'Retired' early in Lake Tahoe. My mom was a beach girl in La Jolla until the end of Junior High - then did HS in Lake Tahoe. Going out to visit them Easter of 1981 when they had just returned for the 'Spring'?

We were allowed to go outside and play in the snow one morning for 15 minutes until Grampa saw a certain light in the snow clouds. He hauled our asses back in.

The snow in the Sierras is fickle, dangerous, and deadly.

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