WINTER STORM Camping in a Car! | Blizzard Survival in the Mountains

Welcome back to the channel. Up here in the Cascade Mountains again. There's a puppy. There was a puppy. A very cute puppy prancing around in the already four or five inches of snow that have fallen. But luckily tonight, finally, there's a winter storm warning for about one to three feet of snow. I mean it's exciting because we've tried to camp up here in the snow for the last month or two but with this odd winter pattern we've had this year, some of them have had high freezing levels and resulted in just downpours. Well it starts to snow and then you wake up and there's like three inches of rain. But this one looks promising. What'd you do? My hand slipped. Brand new lighter. We actually brought a lighter this time. Don't try this at home. Well it sparks. How did that not light it? Yes! Haha! Although that was ingenuitive, it wasn't exactly what we had planned seeing that our new stove doesn't have automatic electric lighting. We were spoiled. We are making fettuccine alfredo with garlic bread. But we're not using fettuccine, we're using rotini and alfredo can't have any parmesan sauce in it because you don't like parmesan. So we're substituting mozzarella. I think that's fair. What? You not liking parmesan? No, it's sad. Parmesan is a fantastic cheese. I'm sauteing our tomatoes because I thought pasta and garlic bread sounded too unhealthy so I was like, let's add tomatoes. How much should I put in? How much is good already? How hungry are you? Why do they make the parsley so big and the whole so small? That is mighty cheesy. Who said cheese? I give you cheese. Yeah, now that looks good. Despite it being below average it's already snowed some 400 inches here this year. Four or five hundred. Well hello there. We've got some friends playing in the snow. Okay guys, hi. There's always a few people camping up here to go backcountry skiing and almost all of them have dogs but the dogs are so sweet here. Done with that. Good garlic bread. Unfortunately we might have to leave our new friend here. Yep, it's really coming down. It's good to get the car turned on now because by tomorrow morning we're gonna have to dig out the intake and the exhaust to be able to start it. Do you want some? Yeah, I do. How's it taste? It's really good. Nothing better than warm comfort food during a snowstorm. I'm wondering if you've got to be burrowed in here for a while. Thank you. Better? Very good. You did a good job. Thanks. Too hot for you? No, it's good. Warm up. It's pretty cold outside. Usually with these really big snowstorms it brings in a lot of moisture so the temperature hovers right around freezing but with the humidity and the wind it can feel a lot colder. Do you want a piece of garlic bread? You ready? Yeah. Oh wow, look at that wind. Get back in. Oh, it's cold. Starting to cake on the car a little bit. Do you have the portable charger? Brought everything up. It's already whited out. A few hours of YouTube later and it has been coming down incredibly hard since we've been in here. So much so that all the windows are all covered up. Mine's still got a little bit of... Well yeah, the wind does blow specifically this direction so this side of the car, my side, is gonna be caked in snow and her side will have like an overhang of snow which is always fun. But I have to go to the bathroom again. It means it's easier to get out of my sight. Yes, I bet it's gonna be hard to open the door. You have to go to the bathroom? Yep. That sucks. I'm good. It's time to put this in the pocket and then face the day out there with the night again. Let's see how hard it's coming. I think it's coming down pretty hard. Alright, let's see if I can open this door. Alright. Oh, it's creating a little berm there. It's not too bad. Let's see what it looks like. Back at the old boat. Back into the blizzard. Actually, the way it's coming down right now is not so bad. It's pretty fine. But hopefully it accumulates as much as they said it would. It'll be fun and pretty tomorrow morning. It's windy. It's pretty fine what's coming down. But it's accumulating. That's good. I mean the heaviest snow is tonight to Tuesday morning. Yeah. But where the plow didn't come by a few hours ago, there's probably like between 4 and 7 inches on the ground. Just because it's windy so there's a lot of bumps. How is it back there? It's cold. I want to give you the one for the front. Hand it to me. I'll put them up. One. Two. Oh, you need the other one? Well, there are two windows in the front. Oh, there are two windows in the front. Of course. Are you okay? Yep. Three, four, shut the door. Ready to get snowed in? Born ready. Hey, well, we're reaching the latter half of winter so gotta cherish those snowstorms, huh? I cherish nothing. Alright. You're warm? Yes, it's always very bright. Well, it's been a good day. The weather wasn't too bad, even though it was snowing really hard. It wasn't, you know, earlier at least when you made food, too windy or too unbearable. But time to clock in all bundled up. Luckily, after those Rocky Mountain cold snap temperatures, this is nothing. It's only like 30 degrees outside. Might as well be summer. Well, I'm excited to see how much snow falls overnight. And we'll see y'all tomorrow. What kind of rain should I call it for, though? What? Yeah, quite a rain. Yeah. Good night. You didn't say good night. Oh, good night. Good morning. Gotta put my eyes in. Oh, it looks rather snowy outside. It's like a foot above the door. Wow. That's the snow in Newark. It's incredible. That's amazing. We really, really got buried overnight. While digging ourselves out, it's gonna be... Dude, this snow is actually, it's pretty good snowball snow. It's fluffy, but it's somewhat compact. And of course, for winter recreation, this will all get cleared out when he's done. And we're just gonna have to dig this far and pull ourselves out. But I don't think it's gonna be an issue at all. Although I do remember now... Yeah, they're dropping avalanche bombs on the ski slopes. But I do remember now that I left a shovel on the roof rack. So I'm probably gonna dig that out first, my big shovel. But the other one's still outside. It's definitely a good move putting chains on before the night. So that we can have even a chance of gripping on this ice. Oh man, the drift here. It's like down to my waist. Well, it'll be one of Chad's last coats of snow for the winter. But it's not uncommon for it to snow even until June out here. So hopefully not. Makes me really happy to see that. It's coming down for like an inch an hour right now. It's coming down really hard. It's very snowy and very pretty outside. It's cold. To me that's exciting. You made me get out of my warm sleeping bag. We got some clearing to do. I thought the plow did that. Well, the plow cleared the parking lot. And all the avalanches I heard going on. Yeah, they were dropping so many bombs. But digging ourselves out shouldn't be too hard. There's a whole world out there. Yeah, bright on your side. All the snow cakes on this side. Which means I can get out of the car. Your side shouldn't be as hard to open. Yeah? You sure about that? Why, you know what? It's gritty. Just best to love what you're doing. The road must be clear enough to come up. Seeing as how some others have made it. Great, great. This is good. Well, here's how much it's snowed now that it's been plowed out. Seems like about, I don't know, maybe 18 inches. Maybe more. Well, now we can tell that some people have made it up. So we can definitely make it down. I've got to get a shovel. I guess the hope now is to get out of here before it's too much worse. I think it could snow another 5 to 8 inches today. And it's going to snow about 4 inches every day. At least for the next few weeks. It snows a lot here. Those good things to do. Yesterday. Hi buddy. What about that, huh? What about some snow? That's the cutest thing. Do you like the snow? Good boy. Alright. I think we should be able to drive out. No problem. And then what we'll probably do is just drive out. Park right here where it's been plowed. Clear off the rest so we don't blow it all over the road. Head down the mountain. Snow's not seizing anytime soon. The sooner the better. Let's get this started here. That was easy peasy. Always have those chains on before you get snowed in. I make that mistake most of the time. But now we're just going to finish clearing off the car. Put the shovel back on top. And be on our way. Well that was easy. I feel like we made it out. We did. A little problem. It's still snowing. Oh it is. We're all over probably 1500 feet lower. And it is dumping, dumping, dumping. It's good to see winter making a March comeback. It's supposed to snow every day for a while now. That made me happy. Because that's what we need, more snow. Well hey, you know when you live in one of the snowiest places in the world Well it'll be good for you. You can ski longer. Yep, long ski seasons. And then we can make snow caves up until June. Yay, arm workout. Thank you for watching this video. We've really been trying. Because this is the third time we've come into the mountains for a blizzard. We spent four nights one time waiting for a blizzard and it rained instead. The atmospheric rivers we get out here that dump precipitation down made it just warm enough for the snow line to be a couple thousand feet above us and so we just got downpours. But this is some nice fluffy good stuff. Anyways, thanks for watching our snowstorm adventure. Getting slowly towards the end of winter but if you're into winter content there's still plenty more to come. So please consider subscribing to our channel. And for other content too because we're about to go make a bunch of other content that's not winter related. Thank you for watching. Bye.