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Agreed on the Sugar Bowl idea...I've actually been in a few big storms after a day of skiing there and you just roll right on I-80.
Anywhere else and you're screwed on a huge storm...but remember its been a few years since our last MASSIVE STORM.
Kirkwood - closes right at the Carson Spur on HWY 88
Heavenly/Sierra at Tahoe - closes at Twin Bridges on HWY 50 (but you may be able to leave Sierra if skiing there for the day)
Squaw/Alpine/Northstar - closes at 89/80
I would buy your ticket to Dodge Ridge now so you don't jinx our Dec 21st mega storm.
If any of you assholes have a Dodge Ridge ticket and you don't come visit me at work this season I'll be butthurt. Or if you aren't going to use them send them to me, I'll find folks to give them to.
Instead of talking about how to fly and drive to tahoe in a few weeks, where there will still be presumably no skiable acerage there should be a discussion of how to fly/drive elsewhere where there is snow! Ill start it off with this awesome lil deal i found the other day. 190 each way from oakland direct to stockholm and about 250 to oslo on norweigan air. there arnt flights daily but there are enough to make a nice little trip work. Plus from Stockholm you can fly to geneva for about another 60 (because sweeden has terrain about on par with boreal). Also trying to find cheap tickets into durango sometime in the end of december/jan for preseason at silvy so if anyone has found any deals post em up!
In other news, singletrack below 7500 was super tacky today! Looking forward to another epic mountain bike weekend while the kooks are ripping it up on the WROD. I guess any skiing is good skiing to some but when there is brown pow to be had fogetabout it! hope everyone has an awesome weekend
holy shit PF, what time of year? Combo that with a flight from Oslo to Tromso in March and it's touring powtopia!!! .... mmmmmmmm, Lyyyyyyyyngen ...
March/april is a little more expensive, around 600 round trip. Not bad for direct flight from oakland to oslo though. The best part is you dont even have to goto SFO
Reno will have direct flights to Heathrow (Eng) on some airline ive never heard of, like $500 roundtrip this year. You could ski the Italian or French alps on the cheap. They're trying to attract euros to Tahoe.
It's worth pointing out that if there's a big storm and 80 is being shut down, there's a good chance your flight out of Reno / Sacro / SFO will be delayed or cancelled. SFO of course being the least on-time airport in the country these days (that's why I always fly out of Oakland, which happens to be the most the on-time airport).
So - did anyone check out the WROD at Gnarstar or Heavenly?
Rained hard all night in Arcata. Anyone get any snow down there?
I looked at the web site--looks like it starts next season. The prices are insanely low. I wonder if tickets will be available to US customers, the point of the flights being to get Euros to ski Tahoe. They do fly from Gatwick to Geneva but saturdays only. I didn't bother to see if the times were compatible to make a connection.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nevada29er
Hasn't been my experience--I've never had flight delays out of Sacramento due to a big winter storm--fog is the big problem, at least in the past. I haven't flown out of SFO often enough to know how often bad weather shuts things down but I suspect most delays and cancellations are due to problems at whatever airport the plane is coming from. SMF is pretty good for on time IME. Reno is a great little airport to fly in and out of, barring bad weather, and snow down to Reno is becoming increasingly scarce.Quote:
Originally Posted by TahoeJ
Rained hard here all night. To the top of everything according to the radar. Still isQuote:
Originally Posted by lepistoir
Thanks PD. Could be a boon by consolidating the facets SAC has been talking about.
Let's turn those facets into snowcone mush ... keeping the singletrack alive!
Um, facets? What facets. Facets require cold weather, and more importantly snow. Rain to the top melted most everything mid month. And inversions have kept the overnight temps really warm where there was any snow left. But in the spirit of positivity, yeah rain is good. According to the marketing machines, the mountains have to get a good wetting anyway for a good snow season. So yeah, yay, rain to the top.Quote:
Originally Posted by SchralphMacchio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6cxNR9ML8kQuote:
Originally Posted by Ottime
i know you've seen this before, but it talks about our crappy year last year (before showing awesome conditions elsewhere). it WILL come
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_BFBAMd2Ro
So glad I didn't camp in Markleevile. On the other had, my choice led to me going to see hunger games with the so and 500 children. Lose?Quote:
Originally Posted by powdork
Screw it, I'm going to go to Heavenly tomorrow morning to break my legs in and watch the Niner's game in the afternoon. Since I spend most of my time on the other side of the lake, any recommendations for a good place nearby to watch the game?
Coldwater Brewing company just opened in the middle of town. Otherwise right when you get off the Gondi, Basecamp Pizza has a decent beer selection on tap. Haven't been downtown in a week so I'm not sure if McP's has opened but that would be another option.
Cold weather isn't required for faceting, just a temperature gradient. On clear nights with near freezing temps the snowpack can develop near surface facets.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ottime
uh, yeah. it is pretty clear that there are (or were) facets, so you kind of have to take my post as meaningless drivel. otoh, anything you can do to make it snow? im just made at alex for praising high elevation single track. he can get that shit coastal.
sun is coming out down here. gonna have a chance at an epic sunset. With the high filling back in, winds are going off shore, and the next few days will have some fun surf.
do i earn my no caps bonus????
things look good ten days out tho
Sometimes I miss Santa Cruz and the Bay Area.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ottime
Everything is always 10 days out
FUCK NO!!! (With)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ottime
Dec 18 in Squaw Valley - Chris Davenport's show: Lessons from the Mountains: The Art of Risk Management
https://www.facebook.com/AlpenglowSp...nts?key=events
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Thieves steal $25,000 in skis, snowboards in overnight Truckee burglary
TRUCKEE, Calif. — Police are investigating an overnight burglary of a downtown ski and snowboard shop where more than $25,000 worth of gear was stolen.
At about 3 a.m. Thursday, suspects broke into the Soulhouse Project Ski and Snowboard Shop at 10116 E St., just off Donner Pass Road, according to the Truckee Police Department, and took roughly 40 skis and snowboards.
“The alarm was activated upon entry; however, the thieves appeared to quickly flee the area after the activation,” officers said in a Thursday afternoon statement.
TPD Det. Arnie Lopez said a minimum of two people are suspected in the burglary. The shop, located at the old Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church site, was brand new to Truckee and was expected to open for business next week, he said.
Detectives are working with other local and state law enforcement on leads and are awaiting results from the California Department of Justice crime lab for evidence found at the shop.
“We have very good success at locating suspects in these kinds of cases when the public stays alert to possible scams and provides information to law enforcement,” said TPD Sgt. Bob Womack.
The stolen gear is reportedly worth more than $25,000. Officers suspect the items will soon be advertised on CraigsList or in a similar venue.
“The snowboards were all brand new, without bindings, made by Lib Technologies and Burton in various graphic designs and models,” officers said. “The skis were all Moment brand, unmounted, and will require a template to install any bindings.”
Anyone with information should contact Womack at 530-550-2335 or Lopez at 530-550-2336.
Wow that sucks. Would raise some eyebrows on CraigsList locally but easy enough to get that amount of gear out of Tahoe. You could easily fund a winter road trip around the west by selling a couple pairs at every stop without raising too much suspicion. Another shop even somewhat local could also fold that into their inventory as well. Here's to hoping their genitals end up in a vice.
That's the story of the last 3 seasons.Quote:
Originally Posted by EastCoastPDR
Too early to call this one though.
Yeah I'm sticking with a negative. keep your hopes low and you'll mostly only be pleasantly surprised.Quote:
Originally Posted by El Chupacabra
Nice layer of rime on the upper Mtn at Squaw this morning...so it does look like this storm actually improved conditions.
Current conditions on Donner:
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Nice to see boreal making snow even at 10 in the morning.
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The WROD at Heavenly wasn't bad this morning for the first hour or so. Now it's packed and the carnage is fully underway. Good toboggan practice for patrol, I suppose.
Does anyone know which auction these will be sold at? I imagine the shop will have their insurance claim processed promptly and we will see these skis up on auction in a year or two. I bought a pair of skis from a police auction once for $1 new, in plastic. The tax and processing cost me $5. Maybe we can track this and make lemonade out of this lemon.Quote:
Originally Posted by telemike
Does anyone know what Squaw will have running on opening day? I'm assuming gold coast and funi downloads, but absolutely zero info on the website and we called and someone told us only the magic carpet.
magic carpet is the new awesome. it is magic, so yeah , awesome.
did i get my bonus this time?
and besides, i was looking 14 days out. that is where the real beta is.
I'm hoping this can stay in peoples minds and radars. Ski thieves suck.
Thieves steal $25,000 in skis, snowboards in overnight Truckee burglary
TRUCKEE, Calif. — Police are investigating an overnight burglary of a downtown ski and snowboard shop where more than $25,000 worth of gear was stolen.
At about 3 a.m. Thursday, suspects broke into the Soulhouse Project Ski and Snowboard Shop at 10116 E St., just off Donner Pass Road, according to the Truckee Police Department, and took roughly 40 skis and snowboards.
“The alarm was activated upon entry; however, the thieves appeared to quickly flee the area after the activation,” officers said in a Thursday afternoon statement.
TPD Det. Arnie Lopez said a minimum of two people are suspected in the burglary. The shop, located at the old Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church site, was brand new to Truckee and was expected to open for business next week, he said.
Detectives are working with other local and state law enforcement on leads and are awaiting results from the California Department of Justice crime lab for evidence found at the shop.
“We have very good success at locating suspects in these kinds of cases when the public stays alert to possible scams and provides information to law enforcement,” said TPD Sgt. Bob Womack.
The stolen gear is reportedly worth more than $25,000. Officers suspect the items will soon be advertised on CraigsList or in a similar venue.
“The snowboards were all brand new, without bindings, made by Lib Technologies and Burton in various graphic designs and models,” officers said. “The skis were all Moment brand, unmounted, and will require a template to install any bindings.”
Anyone with information should contact Womack at 530-550-2335 or Lopez at 530-550-2336.
this evenings update both on open snow and noaa, which pull from the same models, is very optimistic
No joke, that's a lot better since the last time I checked.
I'm gonna be up near Sac for the weekend of the 7th (25 Hours of Thunderhill if anybody's a road racing fan) and gonna try to take a few days to hit Tahoe the following week, anybody got opinions on the best place to go at that point of the season? Family might come up and none of them are serious skiers either, so somewhere with nice shiny lodge/shopping/etc wouldn't be the worst.
Northstar. If you want mellow skiing with plenty of man made. Squaw if you plan to leave tem at the base and head up to the upper mountain (assuming we get snow).
California ski areas getting some love from the NYT yesterday:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/24/sp...wn-future.html
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To bad it's cheaper to fly in from urp than jfk, Newark or lagWaardiA. (Said in a heavy NYalk accent.
So much for that rain doing us some good. Anyone further south take a look yet?
"Little change to the snowpack has occurred on N aspects in Hourglass Bowl since the observations made on Nov 17. Weak depth hoar and strong snowpack temperature gradients continue to exist and were not destroyed by rainfall."
http://www.sierraavalanchecenter.org...ce=twitterfeed
maybe the 60 degree temps next coupla days will fix it.