Last trip of the season to CA
I often joke to my hometown friends in Bend, Oregon that if they want a snowstorm early season or late season, they just have to coordinate with when I have to make a repping trip with a trailer. Last week, I had such a trip scheduled to go to Sacramento and the Bay Area to see a few dealers and make some deliveries. As the trip approached, I nervously kept an eye on my weather apps and my favorite site, tripcheck.com. The site's map gives fast map-based click access to hwy road conditions and real time views of what is happening on the ground from road cams all over the state. It's amazing how often a year I find myself on that site. Anytime I go from Bend to anywhere else, I'm likely passing over mtns and exposed two lanes somewhere in the state. Bend’s elevation is around 3800 feet so it doesn’t take much to turn fall rain showers into snow flurries. As I preview the road cams on my route down Highway 97 S, I pay particular attention to the road cameras in Chemult and Cr...
