skiing at Lake Tahoe

Following are a bunch of photos and videos from cross country skiing with my dad and brother in the Lake Tahoe, California area. We skied at two different cross country resorts under completely different conditions. The first place we went to had a much smaller network of ski trails, not enough snow, and it was brilliantly sunny. Two days later we went to another place that had much more trails than you could ski in a day, tons of great snow, and we were in the middle of a virtual blizzard. Both days were a lot of fun, but I definitely preferred the blizzard, and was wishing we could have stuck around for a few more days, since that storm was supposed to dump 6 feet of snow on the area over the next three days. But at least we got a good taste of it...(these first pictures are of the sunny day at the smaller resort):