airbumba: It would be nut-cold right there, and that time of year. That's close to oregon so it's up high enough latitude wise that the water would be very uncomfortable.
daddog: Yep, been skiing at dodge, bear etc. I was born and raised in Modesto, used to run modestocalifornia.net (Local site, made the paper etc, had a popular alumni site etc), then poured a bunch of money into racks and colo and basically work from home now (No more trucking for me as of 1999) =) Modesto Sucks!, horrible drivers, bad air, high prices for basic necc.... and the politicians suck as well.