I've got 3 so far, 2 at resorts and 1 hiking Mt Rainier from Paradise. After this weekend I'll be up to 5. I have to make up for last year, there was no snow and I only made it up once.
There's 'skiing' in tahoe if you want to hike a long time to ski breakable crust on a base of rock. I drove to Mammoth last weekend to get the first days of the year in