Snow or Slush?

Amazingly enough Arizona does get some real snow. There are few places in the mountains that from time to time get dumped on, like Flagstaff that has a record 58 inches of snow right now. But where we live in Prescott Valley, it is rare that we get more than a few inches of accumulation at a time. And if we do get enough to play in it doesn't last long. This past Saturday we woke up to a few inches on the ground and decided it was time for another family sledding excursion to a local park that has some really good hills.

As you can see we really didn't have much snow. This particular snow fall was so wet (it was preceded by a ton of rain) that the minute you touched it, stepped on it, or sledded down it, it turned to slush. But because the ground was so wet, the sledding still worked out. It was like ice blocking but without the ice. As you can see from the picture Curtis literally wrung out his gloves a couple of times. But Nathan still had a blast, his favorite was going down "skater" style as he called it. Standing up with Curtis and boarding down the hill.