Tahoe Weather, Conditions, Stoke, and What's Up Thread...

**skier666** · 04-01-2013, 09:12 PM

I may have missed the pow, but I sure had fun....

**Steven S. Dallas** · 04-02-2013, 11:46 AM

^Insufficient Greydon Clark stoke.

**jetlag** · 04-02-2013, 02:33 PM

...but definitely sufficient knee cartilage. Sick edit. My legs turn to jello just watching.

**old goat** · 04-02-2013, 04:34 PM

At AM today High T closed about 1030, high beav about 1130

**~mikey b** · 04-02-2013, 04:35 PM

http://winter.kirkwood.com/site/even...anked-slalom-0

Anyone competing in the Kirkwood banked slalom April 13?

Throwin' Owen will be there. He's so much better than you.

**powfiend** · 04-02-2013, 08:19 PM

Really good warm pow laps this afternoon on the Nface of relay peak. If my internet stops sucking so bad I might even post a photo or 2...

**TahoeJ** · 04-02-2013, 08:46 PM

Remember a few weeks ago when I joked about the Cornice II lift at Squaw actually being functional because it almost never spins? Well, sounds like they're removing it completely...

http://unofficialnetworks.com/goodby...missed-120423/

I literally haven't ridden on it once in the past 2 seasons, but not for lack of trying.

**gone2alpine** · 04-02-2013, 10:59 PM

^ Capacity has to be reduced somewhere on the mountain before they can increase capacity with new Rad Dog and Granite Chief lifts....a bunch of meaningless lifts were removed to cover Big Blue...but losing CII is a sad thing.

**jahroy** · 04-02-2013, 11:21 PM

Originally Posted by TahoeJ

Well, sounds like they're removing [C2 chair] completely...

at least the new red dog chair is good news...

it's still not stopping me from crying about the closing dates.

yes, there's no snow this year...

but this new precedent of closing in april is my worst fear come true.

squaw's season has been trimmed by 6 weeks in the last 6 years.

dear KSL,

please stop shortening our season.

thank you,

jahroy

**powfiend** · 04-02-2013, 11:44 PM

Best zone in north lake currently

**gone2alpine** · 04-03-2013, 12:44 AM

Originally Posted by jahroy

at least the new red dog chair is good news...

it's still not stopping me from crying about the closing dates.

yes, there's no snow this year...

but this new precedent of closing in april is my worst fear come true.

squaw's season has been trimmed by 6 weeks in the last 6 years.

You could just start skiing Alpine Meadows.

**jahroy** · 04-03-2013, 01:36 AM

Originally Posted by gone2alpine

You could just start skiing Alpine Meadows.

i expect april 27th to be my best alpine day evar!

**Ottime** · 04-03-2013, 08:33 AM

Does Alpine have a closing date? Vail has inched ours forward as well. Not that KW ever made it more than a week into May with two MDW openings in the past decade. But it still hurts.

**SchralphMacchio** · 04-03-2013, 09:12 AM

Vail hasn't really done anything to closing weekend at KW that wasn't already precedented. (Well, as far as dates are concerned ... Bag search and snowball fight is a different story)

Besides, earlier closing dates just means earlier skinning access.

Opening weekend on the other hand ... We could have gotten going a lot earlier this year.

**gone2alpine** · 04-03-2013, 09:16 AM

Originally Posted by Ottime

Does Alpine have a closing date?.

Officially May 19. Unofficially employees say Memorial Day or later, snow permitting. May 7 seems more realistic given lack of snow at the base

**old goat** · 04-03-2013, 09:24 AM

lot's of stuff about new lifts and removing old ones at SV and AM on unofficial alpine and unofficial squaw

**truckee_splitter** · 04-03-2013, 10:06 AM

Originally Posted by powfiend

Best zone in north lake currently

Absolutely!

Good times!

**TahoeJ** · 04-03-2013, 10:25 AM

Originally Posted by powfiend

Best zone in north lake currently

Wow, nice. This is making me care less about resort closing dates.

**meter-man** · 04-03-2013, 12:03 PM

Yum yum. Nice to see good coverage and creamy turns...despite the worst Jan/Feb/Mar in 100 years.

Originally Posted by TahoeJ

Wow, nice. This is making me care less about resort closing dates.

**powdork** · 04-03-2013, 01:46 PM

Originally Posted by SchralphMacchio

Vail hasn't really done anything to closing weekend at KW that wasn't already precedented. (Well, as far as dates are concerned ... Bag search and snowball fight is a different story)

Besides, earlier closing dates just means earlier skinning access.

Opening weekend on the other hand ... We could have gotten going a lot earlier this year.

Yes, but last year there was the "We will be open until the snow is gone" debacle.

**Ottime** · 04-03-2013, 01:58 PM

Originally Posted by SchralphMacchio

Vail hasn't really done anything to closing weekend at KW that wasn't already precedented. (Well, as far as dates are concerned ... Bag search and snowball fight is a different story)

Besides, earlier closing dates just means earlier skinning access.

Opening weekend on the other hand ... We could have gotten going a lot earlier this year.

I could be wrong, but the scheduled closing date was traditionally the last weekend in April. It is the third w/e of April this year. Not a big deal, but I was hoping to get my son out for one last day of lift served this year. But that is not going to happen. Oh, well, guess I get more skinning time sans familia.

**skier666** · 04-03-2013, 02:32 PM

[old man voice]Back in 95' we were lapping Heart Chute on Memorial Day, so much snow there wasn't even an air[/old man voice]

**bluesbrother49** · 04-03-2013, 03:08 PM

Took some laps at Alpine today out to grouse and around sherwood. They closed access around 11:30. Surprised on how perfect the corn was! I kept looking at the mtn top temps early this morning and put off going BC because I thought it would be glop. It was actually pretty firm until 10 (gloomy cloud cover), but then it was perfect from 10-11.