12' deep snow at a rest stop.
April of '04 with 3 days to kill. Day 1- Long Beach to Lake Tahoe. Day 2 - Lake Tahoe to San Francisco. Day 3- San Francisco to Long Beach (on PCH of course)
The ride took me from 70 degrees on the SoCal coast, through 90+ degrees skirting Death Valley and down to 40 degrees in the mountains. Believe it or not it was colder on the coast north of San Francisco than on top of 8500' Kit Carson Pass. Crossed over four 8,000' passes, learned that Central CA is boring to ride across and rode so many PCH twisties that it was actually a relief to find a straight stretch of road.
Awesome ride