Local snow-day trip, anyone?

This week local schools here have "snow week", a week when schools are closed to facilitate family ski trips (seriously... trying to minimize student vacation absences the rest of the winter). I can't afford a ski vacation for five... and I'm away on travel Wed-Thur this week... but we're considering taking the kids on a one-day trip to the Sierra Nevada to go snow-tubing, after I had lots of fun doing so in Minnesota this week. We'd leave relatively early Friday, arrive around noon, spend the afternoon in the snow and then drive home after dinner. Is anyone else local interested? We could make it a group trip... we have a couple of seats open, if nothing else. I'm considering going to Soda Springs, which also has skiing and snowboarding as well as tubing tows.

Slip-sliding...

The last entry reminds me... I used my tiny Casio credit-card camera to shoot a video while sledding, holding it up with one hand while clinging to the spinning tube with the other. It actually turned out pretty well... if anyone's interested, it's here. (warning, 3MB AVI file)

Now, off for some tapas and talk with my beloved patgreene :-).