This Just In: Winter Storm Warning for Tahoe Cancelled

Is it wrong that I am looking, well actually crying as I watch the KWood webcam?

Stupid Colorado. I move here after 3 seasons at the wood, and BAM!!! early season storms seem to be a dime a dozen in Tahoe. Maybe I am overeacting, but watching the lights from the snowcat appear and dissapear in the blowing snow on the wood's webcam make me wish I kept my shitty job in the bay. At least I am a little closer to little cottonwood canyon... i think?

go get some for the rest of us that will be watching from our three-walled cubes , with no privacy from our hovering bosses

Wind died down a bit right now but 88 be closed at the spur and its too risky with only one sick day. Thursday it be. (doesn't mean I don't have a strong feeling that the wind will die completely, 88 will open at 8:30, and it will snow lightly all day until 4 when it warms up and drops elmer's glue for us all tomorrow)

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Originally Posted by monster dump.

Wind died down a bit right now but 88 be closed at the spur and its too risky with only one sick day. Thursday it be. (doesn't mean I don't have a strong feeling that the wind will die completely, 88 will open at 8:30, and it will snow lightly all day until 4 when it warms up and drops elmer's glue for us all tomorrow)

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its stil howling up here.

http://www.kirkwood.com/webcam.asp

http://smilies.xibase.com/evileek2.gif

holy heavy snow. got about 10-12" at 6,500' at my house and still coming down. in fact, the snow is so heavy that i busted one of the shear pins on my snow blower after trying to blow a full bucket out of the gate. repair made me too late to catch my dawn patrol crew and today is NOT a day to go solo on the bc. it is getting warm though and will prolly be raining at the lake level soon. sooo, peeps waiting till thursday def made the right call.

as gimpy said it is DUMPING at 6500 (he lives about a mile away from me) and we got WAY more than they expected. Pretty heavy, but definitely not sierra cement, i was able to throw it over the power lines which is pretty good snow. ;) it is blowing hard though, whipping the snow around.

enjoy thursday boys and girls, KILL IT! I want pics! arty swing by and i will give you the camcorder and extra tape and battery (that is if you are willing to take a second and film, if you don't i understand. ;) )

gonna be hard to sit in the hospital working on thursday, my friggin birthday no less, knowing it is easily gonna be the best day of the year so far. :mad:

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Originally Posted by lph

enjoy thursday boys and girls, KILL IT! I want pics! arty swing by and i will give you the camcorder and extra tape and battery (that is if you are willing to take a second and film, if you don't i understand. ;) )

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No hablo ingles.

What do you guys think about Squaw given the snow levels and precip?? Seems to me that Thursday might be pretty wet and heavy unless they open, um, the things they say they might open, but who knows about that....what says the old guard??

No insight into Squaw, but I think Kookwood is going to be snow freak show with wind hammered cement on top of nice lite wind hammered powder. I'm stoked.

LPH, bummer that you can't ski on your birthday.

this heavy-ish wind hammered snow is perfect for stomping landings and maching out of them with high speed gs turns. have fun kiddos.

i need some water content of the current snowfall numbers to make a call....my guess is tmrw is gonna blow. 100mph gusts w/rising temps and snow levels all day today = some funky wind hammered heavy mank tomorrow....i hope i am wrong.....but just not sure tmrw is gonna be worth skipping work for....

.....after 9 days of snow and wind, we found ourselves in the tram heading to the summit of the Aiguille du Midi.

This was the first day that the Aiguille was open this season, with the exit tunnel through the glacier not quite clear of snow and ice. The only people up here are sightseeing tourists, or skiers who, with their guide, would walk down the trechearous Arete knife-edge to a safes spot where they will put on their skis.

The plan then was to ski until Scot decided he want to ski the Couloir.

"That cool with you Murray?"

"Yep"



UGH!


UGH!!


UGH!!!


STEEEP!!!!!

Exhausted, Schmidt collapses at the bottom of the chute.

"Yeah...snow's real firm....don't let them run"

Nice quote Punani, you listen to the vinyl yet?

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Originally Posted by skier666

Nice quote Punani, you listen to the vinyl yet?

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Oh shit no. The turntables are locked up in my roommate's room. I'm telling him to set it up out in the living room.

What's our ETD for tonight? :D Also Greydon, Stoneywall, Crack, Kellie.....you all headin up?

So snow wind and weather experts... how will Friday be? It's my only chance.

I'd say the earliest 7 pm...let traffic die down, wait for the storm a little, let Caltrans do their magic...I'll keep on top of it though.

I could pick everyone up....just PM your address Pu. I'll get Stoneywall's too....I'm guessing that would be the easiest due to the fact that parking cars outside people's parking zones may provide perfect opportunities for DPT to issue citations....and we don't need that.

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Originally Posted by skier666

I'd say the earliest 7 pm...let traffic die down, wait for the storm a little, let Caltrans do their magic...I'll keep on top of it though.

I could pick everyone up....just PM your address Pu. I'll get Stoneywall's too....I'm guessing that would be the easiest due to the fact that parking cars outside people's parking zones may provide perfect opportunities for DPT to issue citations....and we don't need that.

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Oh chauffeur service! Sweet man! PM sent. I'm about a mile south of SBC Park

pouring rain today in truckee and TC. any report from the mountains??? nws said snow level 7000. T or F???

-b

Im at 7200' and its doing nadda.

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Originally Posted by britney

pouring rain today in truckee and TC. any report from the mountains??? nws said snow level 7000. T or F???

-b

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hmm, doesn't look good for tomorrow with the temps forecast to be 41 - 51 AND the wet rain/snow combo today and tonight :nonono2: might just half to chalk this storm up to "hey, this is plastering everything w/a good solid base, setting us up for the season" type storms vs a pow day tomorrow or Fri....

Tonight. Windy with rain. Snow and blowing snow likely then chance of rain and snow after midnight. Snow level 7500 feet. Snow accumulation up to 2 inches. Lows 25 to 35. Southwest winds 20 to 30 mph decreasing to 10 to 15 mph after midnight. Gusts up to 60 mph in the evening. Gusts to 90 mph over ridges.

Thursday. Partly cloudy. Highs 41 to 51. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph in the afternoon.

Just got a report from someone on 88 (who originally got turned around at the spur) that 50 is closed at Twin Bridges (just east of Strawberry). No turns for some today!

Thursday got some mojo.

I was wrong there is in fact something falling from the sky up here. The problem is that it is clear and seems to be making a mess of the snow.


Lane may be right, its gonna help with thise pesky rocks for sure but it might nt be a whole lot of fun.

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hmm, doesn't look good for tomorrow with the temps forecast to be 41 - 51 AND the wet rain/snow combo today and tonight :nonono2: might just half to chalk this storm up to "hey, this is plastering everything w/a good solid base, setting us up for the season" type storms vs a pow day tomorrow or Fri....

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That's okay. Those face shots will probably be sour anyway.....


ROLL CALLLLLLLL KIRKWEEEEDERS

My good friend tcohee told me he'll personally see to it that 10 remains shut today, and will open tomorrow with 3 feet of fresh.

Exploders + heavy mank = fun shite :D See ya'll tomorrow.

WTF?.....we can't ski if its slop.

I won't be working..and I'll be skiing with all my boyfriends, gotta go.

busted out the fats for the 1st time this year today and they were definately needed as this new snow will grab ya and gobble ya up if you're not on top of it. too chickenshit to go all the way out to kwood today so just skied the heave from powbowl on down. everything else is on wind hold. above 7,000' was wind buffed kinda heavy pow and below 7,000' was sloppy grabby mank. like y'all said, chalk this storm up to "well, it'll sure help our base." where i was hacking my skis bases yesterday, i was floating free and clear today.

Sloppy mank it is. I'd like to carpool with you city folk if there's room.

http://www.kirkwood.com/webcam.asp

Weird that there's no accumulation on the trees.... hmmm....

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Originally Posted by gimpy

above 7,000' was wind buffed kinda heavy pow and below 7,000' was sloppy grabby mank.

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I assume you hit it in the morning???
I hit Powbowl and the face from 12:00 - 2:00.
The usually reliable Powderbowl trees were totally wind fucked. Like "it's been howling for a week non stop" wind fucked. I found some "decent" snow in the skiers right trees of Waterfall.
The Face - Mank would be an understatement. I would call it 10,000 psi SIERRA CEMENT. Actually reminded me of the consistency of some week old refrigerated mashed potatoes that recently got tossed from Thanksgiving.

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where i was hacking my skis bases yesterday, i was floating free and clear today.

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I found a few lurkers in the fringes of Avy bowl....including a snowmaking pipe.

Hope everyone has better luck at the 'wood. The elevation should help, but also means the wind is hammering even harder.

Any reports from Waterhouse trees???

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Originally Posted by Punani

http://www.kirkwood.com/webcam.asp

Weird that there's no accumulation on the trees.... hmmm....

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oh man, that is bad, it had to have been raining pretty hard at the base to lose all that snow off the trees. i just don't think the snow would blow hard enough at the base to do that to the trees.

I will take 3 feet of wind loaded mank sement over no new snow any time.

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oh man, that is bad, it had to have been raining pretty hard at the base to lose all that snow off the trees. i just don't think the snow would blow hard enough at the base to do that to the trees.

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Actually at one point today you could see the wind whipping up snow at the base. Still, it could be rain. We'll find out tomorrow.

Went up Waterhouse today around 1:00 PM, pretty much the same conditions everyone else is reporting "Mank", every thing is covered up well now except for all the crap blown out of the trees today, what a dissapontment after some fun boot to knee high powder turns at Heavenly yesterday.

Heading up there a sign indicated that Hwy 88 was closed due to avalanch work.

ok, i am bailing kids, it just does not look like tomorrow (when its supposed to be even warmer than today) is worth playing hooky for. I have been around here long enough to know when to call 'em....So, now that I won't be there, of course, it should be epic. you guys owe me a beer if its good tomorrow :the_finge

I'm OUT. Glad to have more "mank" for a base, but not worth hooky in my boat either. Friday AM, maybe if the reports from tomorrow are "epic." But then again, my resort is 2000' lower than your resorts...hope people get after it, though, and I'll be looking forward to hearing the reports.

yesterday - denail - "nah, it'll still be great"

noon - anger - :cussing: :cussing: :cussing:

now - bargaining - maybe since I got aced out on this one, the next one will come super extra cold and dry.

Awe shit, the rise and fall of internet stoke. What a ride.

FUCK FUCK SHIT FUCK COCKSUCKER MOTHERFUCKER ASS-PIRATE FAG JIZZ EATING CUM-GARGLING POOFTER FUCKHEAD ASSHOLE WARM WEATHER HOMO STORM!!! :cussing:

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FUCK FUCK SHIT FUCK COCKSUCKER MOTHERFUCKER ASS-PIRATE FAG JIZZ EATING CUM-GARGLING POOFTER FUCKHEAD ASSHOLE WARM WEATHER HOMO STORM!!! :cussing:

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Tell me, how do you really feel?

My bargaining from Sunday went - "Shit, Cal got aced out, maybe I'll get a monster dump to make up for it." Then this. I think this December is fucked. (cept for hardrider and trescow's good fortune) You were right hardrider, I don't even ski anymore. I don't even care any more. I can't take the swings. - entering depression