Over Rock and Under Tree

The road to Anistar City, and surely my next disappointingly easy gym battle, took me through an ice cave called the "Frost Cave" and over a snowy mountain that was most likely called "Snowy Mountain".
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I do have to admit that I love exploring all the dungeons in this game--and ice caves are a kind of guilty pleasure of mine.  Of course they all end up having that one predictable sliding-on-the-ice minigame, but I actually like that one (see also: Conveyer Belt minigame.  But fuck you, teleporter game).
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The reason I was rerouted into the Frost Cavern is because the only other way East is through a snowy path in the mountains that can only be crossed by riding on the back of a Mamoswine.  Very Cool.  Apparently the Mamoswine in question was feeling down in the dumps and the only way I could make him feel better was to go through the Frost Cavern.  Very Uncool.

Frost Cavern was full of interesting Ice pokemon, including a new pokemon called Bergmite whom I caught easily--and at the end, the big revelation was that Team Flare was behind the whole mess! >GASP<

Apparently Team Flare was picking on a resident Abomasnow (most likely for being a stupid Sesame Street muppet) and I had to fight them off to make the Abomasnow feel better--and therefore to make the Mamoswine feel better.

After I made the Abomasnow feel better, it gave me "Abomasnowite" (which I assume mega-evolves Abomasnow) and I made my way East on the back of a Mamoswine.  Along the way, "Scrappy" the Scraggy evolved into "Scrappy" the Scrafty.

Current Squad:
GRENINJA/Garcon/lvl.40
VENUSAUR/Venus/lvl.38
FLAERON/Hotfoot/lvl.38
SCRAFTY/Scrappy/lvl.39
HIPPOWDON*/Leviathan/lvl.40
AERODACTYL/Scarydactyl/lvl.41

On Rotation: Gardevoir, Pikachu, Lucario, Skrelp