We left for the snow early in the morning, and after a drive to Dodge Ridge (a ski place in Stanislaus National Forest), we arrived by the side of the road where we camped. We spent a while bringing all of the various supplies up to the camping area and starting to make our snow shelters. We continued building the shelters for the rest of the day until it got dark. At this point, there was a lot of rain and snow coming down. Those who had finished their shelters built an eating area, and those of us who were still working to secure the shelters from the rain and snow attempted to finish their shelters before their bags got too wet from the pouring precipitation. It was dumping snow when we were eating together outside, and the wetness of our clothes made it very cold. Finally, we went back to our shelters go to sleep, but the continued rain and snow quickly caused further problems for many of us who had design flaws in our shelters (including mine). A few of our shelters suffered problems of the roofs not being sloped enough, so they began to fall in, and we had to get out of our sleeping bags and put on our soaked snow clothes to repair and redesign our shelters. The Troop had even worse problems with their shelters, so we had several people in Venture Crew going over to their area to help them. Eventually, we went to sleep, and we all survived the night. The next morning, we had to dig out our shelters and knock them down while packing up to leave quickly in the event that the snow got worse. The snow got worse, and we canceled all events in favor of bringing things down the mountain as fast as possible and quickly organizing and packing everything up, as the snow was projected to continue getting worse and worse. Finally, we got into the cars and left to come back home.
By Evan