. >> reporter: lillian berman brought her 9-year-old daughter from sequoia all the way from san francisco, their first top south lake tahoe where the snow almost stopped the bermans in their tracks. >> the snow removal trucks paved the way for us. >> reporter: the journey paid off for other snow sport enenthusiast including phillippe calderon. the powder had people packing boreal and packing the snow. >> question make snowballs and then throw them. >> reporter: threading the mountain is becoming a. >> tradition for the bermans and a new addiction for sequoia. >> you can't do it all year and that's the part don't like about it. >> reporter: the weather did cause a crash near interstate 80 by donner pass. fortunately, though, no one was hurt. dakota deputies s >>> a tense standoff underway in north dakota as protesters and police clash over the planned dakota access oil pipeline. deputies say 400 demonstrators were on a bridge trying to go north when law enforcement stepped in to stop them. at least one person was arrested. protesters have been trying to stop the construction for months. th