South/North Lake Tahoe weather pattern

After Saturday's goodness at Alpine, I went up to Rose with a friend for some sidecountry. We spent the afternoon laughing through faceshots while road-shuttling from the FS road below Sky Tavern back up to the Slide side road. Deep, deep, deep braille turns at first, with weird visibility right off the road, but you dropped out of it quickly. Deep, deep, deep through the trees and glades, with a short manzanita bushwhack and hike back out to the road.

Then this morning, I headed back up to Rose with my gf. She had to be back at work in Truckee by 8:30, so we started skinning in the dark at 6. Sunrise over the valley below was amazing, and there was another dusting of light-as-air fluff on top. It was a cold climb (-4 when we started), but all worth it in one run. It's still good out there...

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Originally Posted by 3pin

After Saturday's goodness at Alpine, I went up to Rose with a friend for some sidecountry. We spent the afternoon laughing through faceshots while road-shuttling from the FS road below Sky Tavern back up to the Slide side road. Deep, deep, deep braille turns at first, with weird visibility right off the road, but you dropped out of it quickly. Deep, deep, deep through the trees and glades, with a short manzanita bushwhack and hike back out to the road.

Then this morning, I headed back up to Rose with my gf. She had to be back at work in Truckee by 8:30, so we started skinning in the dark at 6. Sunrise over the valley below was amazing, and there was another dusting of light-as-air fluff on top. It was a cold climb (-4 when we started), but all worth it in one run. It's still good out there...

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Hey when you were dropping from the Slide side Road were you comming out @ the Hair Pin turn below (The Cristmas Tree)?

I wanna do that run. I heard minimal skinning back to the road, true?

Damn good weekend.

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Originally Posted by Spats

Mt. Rose claims they got over a foot last night (yes, it's the 12 hour figure). This seems odd since no one else is reporting more than 6" today, and Heavenly is reporting 3". Can anyone verify? powpig? Jim? MTT?

I would have paid $20 for that and slept on the floor, no problem :tdo13:

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YES! As verfied by others, storm total of 30"!!! Don't know about lake effect but could've been a back door wraparound since the crest didn't get it. Driving over 431 from IV yesterday was sunny all the way up and over til we got 1/4 mile from the Rose lot where it started snowing lightly. On the Slide side it was socked in and full on snowing. Definitely the lightest fluffiest most feathery snow I've ever ski'd on the spatulas. Neck gaitor was essential equipment. Got my favorite Chutes run all to myself, first one down, the White Room! Somea the best $20 I ever spent!

holy-cold-smoke-blower-waist-deep-goodness! i didn't think Sun would top Sat, but it did. We did 5 runs out towards Twin Peaks, hiking further ea. successive run so that we had 5 virgin untouched blower cold smoke runs. i am still in awe, those runs may have been the lightest and deepest runs I have experienced in 10 yrs of skiing in Tahoe, I shit you not - it was that good. we were launching the cornice into waist deep snow and throwing massive contrails down to the little cliff band before you cut back to get to Sherwood....sooooooo good, I wish every storm in Tahoe was like this.....

dang. while the skiing's been totally kickass on the south shore, nothing like the waist/chest deep reports from the n shore, .........bastards;) . still blower on the 'pole this am and lots of sluffing on the steeps.

yup..sounds like North Shore got a bit more of this system eh?

Hit up looker's left side of Elephants Back and lapped the lower ridges below with AKA & Kush on Sunday. Blower blower snow...but definitely a firm layer not far underneath with ample sloughage in steep gullies. Elephant's Back was $$$$ though :D

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Originally Posted by MTT

Hey when you were dropping from the Slide side Road were you comming out @ the Hair Pin turn below (The Cristmas Tree)?

I wanna do that run. I heard minimal skinning back to the road, true?

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I want to do that too, but need more beta.