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

[TahoeJ]

Tuesday looks good enough for me to take another day off from work. Also, Squaw opened Headwall and AM opened Scott.

[snapt]

Wow TahoeBC is that blue sky from today? Sugar Bowl was a bit disappointing, visibility was nil and soft spots were few and far between. Lots of folks showed up on their R/R sticks and were not stoked with the dust on death. Should have gone meadow skipping instead. Tuesday looks lame, everyone should stay home.

[MrSmith]

Saturday was quite good at Squaw, at least until the weather moved in. Surprising how well that snow from Wednesday held up. Sunday was windy with extremely poor visibility on the upper mountain and some sort of freezing rain. Didn't stay up there long. Lapped red dog for a while and packed it in early. Should have gone with the Fri/Sat option.

[TahoeBC]

Yep from today, it was cloudy and flurries all day but the weather broke as it headed out towards the valley.

[SchralphMacchio]

Ottime loves to photoslut for my camera ... yeah, I guess Saturday was kind of all right.

[NatEE]

A sign that I need to do more BC skiing...

[powfiend]

Raining right now at bridge 10 FML...

[The Dad]

Tuesday looks good enough for me to take another day off from work. Also, Squaw opened Headwall and AM opened Scott.

The Mom has actually ASKED me to bring shit uphill tomorrow afternoon and ski Tuesday before coming back down, so we can drive up together Thursday, when the kids start break.

Gotta decide whether I can blow off work.

[gimpy]

i was totally wondering what you were doing this week and what your motives for doing so was. i cant wait to see what you decide.

[Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer]

Raining right now at bridge 10 FML...

Rain/snowline hovered just above lake level all night. At my place at 6,200 on the river, it was wet snow. But regardless, around a foot of snow up at the base of Alpine. Likely lots of wind loading up top.

Super windy last night (still is cranking). Hopefully the spin today... Scott is scheduled.

[TahoeBC]

Well at least the rain has turned to flakes at the house and the wind has died down to only 80 mph gusts, stoke level is medium rare.

[BGnight]

Looks like a wash for AM/Squaw today. Squaw is at least honest in not scheduling any lifts. AM is showing 75mph winds up top which means they might open roundhouse at best. The next few days should be good though! Too bad Squaw doesn't have enough snow for lower mtn storm days yet.

"Scott is scheduled."

I'd be shocked if it spun. Would be a nice gamble if it did but I'm writing today off as a work day.

[lepistoir]

So where does one tour in N Lake on a day like this with notable avalanche danger and buckets of wind? Somewhere to do lots of low-angle laps? Stanford Rocks? I know Powderhouse is perfect, but it's a 90-minute drive at this point. Also, been to Castle way too much. Any other help much appreciated. Smooches.

[jables]

Rumor is Alpine was running on generators, likely not going to be spinning anything today, but haven't confirmed yet. Snaining, then snowing, then raining in TC right now. Cement at Alpine.

[TahoeBC]

Any south shore dawn patrollers care to post up or pm me a conditions update, slowly motivating to get out.

[Quadzilla]

So where does one tour in N Lake on a day like this with notable avalanche danger and buckets of wind? Somewhere to do lots of low-angle laps? Stanford Rocks? I know Powderhouse is perfect, but it's a 90-minute drive at this point. Also, been to Castle way too much. Any other help much appreciated. Smooches.

One of my favs on a day like this is the Northside of Chick a dee ridge, skiing the ridgeline northward down toward Tahoe Meadows and above Price Lake. Looking at 4-500 vert runs in the 20-30 degree pitch.To acess start at the Ophir Creek trailhead and head up like you were doing the TRT bike trail but keep working toward the right till you hit the ridgeline. Ridgeline runs East and West and on a day like this ski off the ridge north/Northeastward. I sklied this yesterday on a nasty windy day and skied some amazingly fun windbuff and powder.

[supermodel159]

Ottime loves to photoslut for my camera ... yeah, I guess Saturday was kind of all right.

excellent shot.

[Superstar Punani]

Sat was the best first day of any season for me. Me, Clack, Jmetz, and Skiin Ian +1 went on a POW HUNTN safari, ripped the shit out of here and there, and no, you can't have any stash-revealing pics so suck it...suck it long, and suck it hard.

Sun was the worst 2nd day of the season- variable ice and consolidated leftovers with whiteout and winds and brutal rides on the longest coldest slowest chair in the Sierra. Same crew above, along with dblatto and a Big&Tall very very angry Irishman with flaming nostrils and steam coming out of his ears. Called it at noon.

[Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer]

So where does one tour in N Lake on a day like this with notable avalanche danger and buckets of wind? Somewhere to do lots of low-angle laps? Stanford Rocks? I know Powderhouse is perfect, but it's a 90-minute drive at this point. Also, been to Castle way too much. Any other help much appreciated. Smooches.

One option is certain zones off Silver Peak. Some of the N-trees are long angle and don't have start zones above them. I would stay away from the E-bowl today and anything directly N off the summit. But on the approach about 2/3 of the way up the is a saddle that has good tree shots all the way down to the creek (all facing N, not back towards 89).

[powfiend]

hearing lots of bombs from my house. Perhaps something will shake up at squaw this afternoon.

[Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer]

Rumor is Alpine was running on generators, likely not going to be spinning anything today, but haven't confirmed yet. Snaining, then snowing, then raining in TC right now. Cement at Alpine.

Ugh. I couldn't get out this weekend, nor tmmrw, so today is it for me. Originally was planning Waterhouse, but my touring partner bailed. Too late to start the long drive from here down to Luther.

I guess I will just wait to 10 and see if they spin Roundhouse and hit gunners knob and the traverse to waterfall over and over. Similar to BG, I put little faith in Scott.

[irul&ublo]

Gotta decide whether I can blow off work.

Don't be a pussy

[skier666]

Anyone riding the Wood on Thursday & Friday? Throwing my kid in ski school and planning to pow hunt....

[Consigliere]

hearing lots of bombs from my house. Perhaps something will shake up at squaw this afternoon.

They were bombing Sunday as well. I asked a patroller about it while sharing a lift. He said that they were bombing all along the ridge from KT to Red Dog due windloading. They had no idea if anything actually triggered due to visibility being all of 10 feet.

[The Dad]

i was totally wondering what you were doing this week and what your motives for doing so was. i cant wait to see what you decide.

In that case, you'll be pleased to know that I'm 75% likely to leave SF for Alpine rather than home a little before 5pm this weekend.

Point being, if you're a known maggot who needs a ride up tonight along the I-80 corridor, shoot me a PM.

Don't be a pussy

You are what you eat, my friend.

Grouse Rock is not part of their lease (which in any case, I do not believe gives them the ability to prevent human powered access when they are not in operation).

I haven't seen the lease, personally, so I'm not sure how far it extends and what their full range of rights and obligations are. But at least for Sherwood generally, since they apparently have the power to prevent human-powered operation on the frontside once "winter operations" have commenced -- even if lifts are not spinning -- I can't imagine why they wouldn't be able to do so on the back.