By Patric Hedlund and Gary Meyer

It appears that El Niño just may deliver a genuine, old-fashioned winter to the Frazier Mountain Communities this year after all. A volley of several successive weather cells brought snow and rain this week.

While Monday offered an easy drive up to Nordic Base on Mount Piños, but little snow, Tuesday brought a closure to Mt. Pinos Road and the snowplay area. At lower elevations there was rain and light snow.

Wednesday’s storm transformed…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Clockwise: Migrating ducks landed on ice chunks at the Frazier Mountain Park pond as Mount Piños got a few inches of snow on January 5. On New Year’s Day even the hills above Gorman Post Road were salted with snow.

Even before all the ‘big white’ came, on New Year’s Day snow play visitors clogged the westbound lanes of Cuddy Valley Road in their quest to find a few patches of snow up on Mount Piños. Only those with chains were allowed up.

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This is part of the January 8, 2016 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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