Sure enough, when we got to the Bear Gulch Nature Center, given all the delays that Julie induced on the way here, it turned out that the car in front of us took the very last parking spot…

This was a long weekend trip where I spontaneously decided to do a trip to visit waterfalls in the far north of California for the first time. Given the driving distances, neither Julie nor I went waterfalling north of Sacramento….

According to our GPS, we only had around 5-6 miles to go, but soon the weather continued to deteriorate from hail to heavy snow flurries. Now, things were getting serious, and it eventually got…