I lived in ******* Pines for 11 years on Garnet Ct. Where are you?
About 3 miles southwest of where Mormon Emigrant Trail tees into Sly Park Road -- just outside the Sierra Springs subdivision at about 3,560 feet (according to my GPS). So -- roughly 4 miles southwest and 200 to 300 feet lower than where you were.
Nice community if your kids don't need to go to school any more, and you have abandoned your social life. JMHO
I don't have any kids, and I have.
Be sure to buy a 4WD and plow. You'll eventually need it.
I have 6 vehicles. 3 are of the two wheel variety, as reflected in my signature. The other 3 are 4WD: 2 Subaru Outback wagons and a Ford F-250 4X4. The next door neighbor has a plow and Elizabeth has a snow blower (that I still need to do some maintenance work on).
After all the years living in Steamboat Springs and the Tahoe basin, I expect that the substantially lighter snowfall in ******* Pines will be an occasional nuisance,** but nothing in comparison to the heavy dumps of the years I lived in the lee of Alpine Meadows on the west shore. I've seen (and shoveled) 5 feet in an afternoon on more than one occasion. Moreover, the biggest issue with living above 6,000 feet is that the snowpack doesn't go away soon enough -- just when your sanity requires a shift to greenery and spring-like weather, mother nature dumps several feet on you during April and then spits sleet, cold rain and snow in May. It's almost a cabin fever emergency that drives you to get below 4 or 5,000 feet at nearly every opportunity -- where it's already spring.
Summers are too hot for me below about 3,000 feet here, and I've never liked urban or suburban living, with the traffic and the noise of too many people crammed together. From the age of 7 to 19, I lived on 2.25 acres. Until Sept. '06 when I moved into this condo, my years in the Sierra foothills have been spent living on 2 to 3 acre properties where I could walk outside (naked if I wished) to enjoy the open space, the air, the solitude, and the peaceful quiet of a more rural environment.
I'm going back to that at what is, to me, an ideal elevation. I still have my tools (including 4 Stihls, but excepting the Honda track drive snowblower) from maintaining previous properties, and enjoy heating primarily with wood, while NOT needing air conditioning in the summer.
Outstanding motorcycle roads begin within a half mile of my driveway. Places to shoot and places to ride the dual sport are an easy 10 to 30 minutes away. Ummmm -- you know all that, but you prefer living where I don't. To each his own. B)
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And I expect Sly Park Road to be a real ***** when covered with ice and/or snow -- many Californians suck at driving in the snow, and there's a real lack of margin in the curves and inclines on that road and others nearby (where they don't have the snow removal budget of communities above 6,000 feet).
