Santiago Ibarra took the fluffy (if a little wet) snow, formed into a ball and launched it like a rocket towards his unsuspecting older sister Adilene.
They’d come up to Sempervirens Point Day Use Area at Castle Rock State Park from their home in Ben Lomond, Wednesday morning, to enjoy an incredibly rare phenomenon—a dump of snow in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Greg Sumter, a park maintenance assistant, looked on, just as enthralled by the white stuff falling from the heavens.
“We’re at—oh geez—about twenty-five-hundred feet and the snow level dropped to below that,” he said. “And it’s cold, so it’s sticky.”
Sumter said the blanket of snow provided the perfect opportunity for people to enjoy nature’s bounty…