Only in Tahoe.....

[Superstar Punani]

Haveing it rain while 3 hours south it's dumping powder! DOH.

Skiing 3 feet of blower pow all over Kirkweed on a storm day while 3 hours south the upper mountain is shut and the lower mountain has 3 inches of windblown windpacked crap and one hour liftlines

[Lane Meyer]

Punani....the awful truth....

While I agree with you, I refuse to run that one since it would be akin to telling a bunch of Arizona-wave-tank-champion haoles how to drop in at Pipe. Let `em suffer in line up north and figure it out on their own.

[AntiSoCalSkier]

Only in Tahoe...

is it possible to stay walking distance from the lifts and still find needles under the bed. (SLT)

[ja_surf]

Where the TRPA tells you to mulch all the bare ground around your house with pine needles, then the Fire Marshal tells you to rake up all the pine needles around your house, WTF??

[Vets]

Buying crank behind the old Smart n' Final building.

What a name - Smart n' Final. I prefer to mix the letters into Fart n' Smile.

[vinzclortho]

you can build a 1/4 pipe between your house and the guy's house next door with snow off your roof because the guy next door only shows up in the summer (Tahoma)

The giant Cholula bottle at the Fire Sign that they won't let you drink from.

PDQ and their sweet sweet sandwiches

you are expected to hitch hike instead of taking the bus

packs of roaming neighborhood dogs

you can inadvertantly ruin a pro's photo shoot

drinking beers and grilling on the porch of your buddy's house right on Oly valley road on a Sunday evening while it's dumping snow and all the people from San Fran who have to drive home are giving you the finger.

you meet tons of people who say "I know that guy, he was in my DUI class."

you can get your paycheck cashed at the Biltmore

ski Squaw one day, play frisbee golf in south lake the next

you can buy beers and whiskey at the Sevy at the entrance to Oly valley road


edit: buddeh and I went into a Smart and Final for the first time the other day and we concluded that it's a fat person's store. I mean who needs a 3 liter of generic mountain dew for chrissake? Or 8 pounds of pretzels?

[Lane Meyer]

Thanks you guys, keep 'em coming. When we go to press with this, I'll mail anyone who lives out of town and wants one a paper.

[bad_roo]

drinking beers and grilling on the porch of your buddy's house right on Oly valley road on a Sunday evening while it's dumping snow and all the people from San Fran who have to drive home are giving you the finger.

That must be a sweet, sweet feeling. Savour those moments.

[slippy]

Gas prices in Truckee are higher than anywhere I've seen in a ski town.

[JMO]

-Only place I know where you can play soccer at 8200 ft with a keg of Heckler, accidentally kick your only soccer ball off a 50 ft. cliff, and then enjoy the rest of that keg in a hot tub only a few feet away.

[slippy]

-Only place I know where you can play soccer at 8200 ft with a keg of Heckler, accidentally kick your only soccer ball off a 50 ft. cliff, and then enjoy the rest of that keg in a hot tub only a few feet away.

Actually there's a place just like that near Billings, MT and Akron, OH.

[vinzclortho]

That must be a sweet, sweet feeling. Savour those moments.

It was actually made even BETTER because the Patriots had just beaten the Raiders in the AFC playoffs and we had a huge "GO PATRIOTS!!!" banner hanging over the porch. Yeah Massholes!

[Baconzoo]

You can drop a coin in the lake and watch it flutter down in the water for 15-30 seconds. I once got vertigo while wakeboarding, I went out from the wake onto the glass and I felt like I was going to fall on the big ass rocks 10 feet blow the surface.

[mountainbored]

Skiing 3 feet of blower pow all over Kirkweed on a storm day while 3 hours south the upper mountain is shut and the lower mountain has 3 inches of windblown windpacked crap and one hour liftlines

LOL! Gotta say Tahoe is the only place I know where you can drive to 5 different resorts and get 5 different snow conditions, all within an hour of each other.

[skier666]

...where a hoodie as your ski coat for 90% of all your ski days.

...wearing shorts in the parking lot after a 3 foot powder day

...tour around the KW backcountry, ski sick lines by yourself and within a couple hours be at Amoeba Music on Haight going through the used Dnb vinyl bins.....(wait a second, that's a perfect day!)

...when driving from the Bay, even in the worst stroms you only have to drive on snow for the last 30 miles or so. Where in most places like Colorado, East Coast etc....you may pullin' snow the whole way.

[splat]

Can you find a place named the "Battered Beaver Saloon" where the chicks are all smiling instead of ranting about the name being degrading to women.

Can you find a major business mogul who used to be your source for pot a decade or two before.

Will you find out the chick you went out with once works in a position enabling her to 'lose' some paperwork pertinent to your pending court appearance.

Will you get a few years for posession of pot on one city block - and openly smoke it on the next. The same goes for getting or not getting free medical care for your ripped ACL.

[Buster Highmen]

...when driving from the Bay, even in the worst stroms you only have to drive on snow for the last 30 miles or so. Where in most places like Colorado, East Coast etc....you may pullin' snow the whole way.

1) Where locals can be oblivious to locales of similar climatological mien.
2) Where the liftline is served by sushi carts.

[splat]

Will you see scores of upside down and stuck-in-the-ditch 4x4 SUVS and gaper drivers wondering how that could have happened.

[wtp]

Cash your unemployment check at Lakeside Inn for the free drink ticket, then hit up BOTH dollar drink happy hours, followed by toothless tweeker karaoke.

[el_jefe]

show up in the parking lot, where its raining @ 6000 feet. get handed a free clear plastic trash bag with head and arm holes and a custom printed "squaw valley" logo to keep you dry. head up the funitel and over to granite chief. hike the peak and huck your meat off a cornice as it dumps 3 feet of pow at 9000 feet.

[Lane Meyer]

The article came out in the Low Down - pick one up at most area coffee shops and bars.

Who PMed me about mailing them a copy - I forgot already??

[hucksquaw]

werd (knockin' on serious wood right now....). 89 on w/e nights is dui alley....they even pulled over peeps in tahoe donner, like 50ft from their driveway, and given them dui's...brutal...

saw one just last weekend...