On the last weekend in Feb, Mike and I finally made it up to the snow. We had a grand old adventure, I left the both the phone number, and the name, of our motel at home. We had a bit of an idea, and eventually found it.
We purchased and learnt how to put on snow chains, (none of that weak paying a chain guy to put them on for us, we're engineers!) learnt how to drive with snow chains on, and showed a few locals how to drink like Australians at "The Hoss Hog" in South Tahoe.
We skiied at Sierra@Tahoe, and had a fantastic time. Mike got ridiculously burnt. (He would go on to do the same thing on our next ski trip)