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

[Nuthon]

could it be the guy with the hurt knee?

He did leave his gear behind but had friends retrieve it today.

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[dhklauer]

Anyone in Tahoe have any of the skis below mounted with a 306mm-ish BSL? Looking to try a few runs (I'm looking for a resort driver)

Blizzard Bonafide 180
Armada TST 183
ON3P Tychoon 176 or 184
DPS W99 Hybrid 176 or 184
Moment PB&J 182

PM Skiwald. he has been riding his TST's, and is trying to unload a pair of PBJ's.

[powdork]

He did leave his gear behind but had friends retrieve it today.

small world we live in

[dhklauer]

Dust on crust today was good at Kwood. Nuked until 2pm.

Raw Clip.

[Wickedbrew4u]

Dust on crust today was good at Kwood. Nuked until 2pm.

Raw Clip.

Nice turn. I should have gone down there today. Alpine slack was decent. Mostly cloudy north facing stuff still was decent at 7000'.

[otto parts]

Anyone in Tahoe have any of the skis below mounted with a 306mm-ish BSL? Looking to try a few runs (I'm looking for a resort driver)

Blizzard Bonafide 180
Armada TST 183
ON3P Tychoon 176 or 184
DPS W99 Hybrid 176 or 184
Moment PB&J 182

Schralph,
Welcome to try a 185 Cochise or 183 bro 99 (which is what you need) anytime at the wood.

[SchralphMacchio]

Start Haus

Thanks, I'll see about making a north shore day one of these upcoming weekends and find out about demoing skis through them or something.

Schralph - I saw your other thread, but you should give a serious look at some 105 - 108mm skis in addition to the 98-100 range

I am giving a serious look at (rockered) 98-102 mm skis in addition to the 106 waisted skis that I already have. If it's soft enough to not bottom out then the skis I have are fine.


Thanks for the info danny and otto, will follow up on that.

[powdork]

i'm seeing an east wind going on via the satellite right now. can anyone in an east wind prone area confirm?

[gone2alpine]

Remote sensor at Ward is showing an almost east wind...around 70-75 degrees. It's been slowing coming around from a north wind to an east wind.

[powdork]

thanks. doesn't seem too strong or like it will be long lived. i'm not too worried

[AKbruin]

Coverage at the Buttes isn't bad. Conditions were . . . variable (some pow, some windblown, some crust, a lot of hard but edgeable chalk).

[schuss]

Thanks, I'll see about making a north shore day one of these upcoming weekends and find out about demoing skis through them or something.



I am giving a serious look at (rockered) 98-102 mm skis in addition to the 106 waisted skis that I already have. If it's soft enough to not bottom out then the skis I have are fine.


Thanks for the info danny and otto, will follow up on that.

After my next trip up I'll have Bro 183 fats and Super Turbos you can try too.

[TahoeBC]

Coverage at the Buttes isn't bad. Conditions were . . . variable (some pow, some windblown, some crust, a lot of hard but edgeable chalk).

Another peak on my hit list, nice work, did you hike all the way in or get a snow mobile assist?

We had chalky conditions up on Jobs also, but some really fun pow turns after getting out of the Coolie.

[TahoeJ]

I used to rent a place on Conifer, and we would skin up leaving from the back door (sweet!). There is a peak with some pretty steep skiing, including an optional covered train track huck. Start as far to the west end of Conifer as you can get away with and head south to the shoulder, then up the ridge. Ski down anywhere you want. There is another peak with some extreme stuff a little further west.

On big powder days, we'd do a 45 minute lap from the back door up to the shoulder. Its only 600ft vert, but plenty fun.

Thanks for the info. Their place is just around the corner from Conifer so that's perfect. I was wondering what the landing below that train tunnel would be like once there was enough snow - hard to tell during the summer if that was a real option or not.

[splitter]

KT BC gate?

http://www.squaw.com/kt-backcountry-gate

[TahoeBC]

^^^ That is pretty cool, hopefully someone will post a TR hitting it from both directions.

Question, if you by a day pass at one of those resorts is it good for both for the day?

[unpossible]

^^^ Yes. Two resorts, one pass.

[TahoeBC]

Been awhile since I skied either of those resorts, is there any interesting terrain between the two? I'm assuming the White Wolf stuff is still off limits since its Private property.

[unpossible]

As stated on the link above:

• The land to the East is private property (please, no trespassing).
  
• The land to the West is wilderness (there is no way out).

The area to the East is White Wolf, and they are not going to take lightly to someone poaching it, and doing so will probably ruin whatever convenience or fun the gate provides immediately.

To the west is the "Granite Chief Wilderness" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granite_Chief_Wilderness). The only way out that I know of would be to skin back up. The terrain that you can see off the back of Alpine is pretty mellow, and can be very wind scoured. Though it did look fun a week ago, when we were out there hitting the High T.

[Burrrr]

Staying in South Lake Tahoe Tuesday and Wednesday night for business.

Skiing kirkwood on Wednesday, it would be cool to ski with some maggots.

PM me if you will be out and about.

[skier666]

Nice pencil chute stoke...I debated hitting that last week but couldn't get myself away from the top to bottom fun of chair 6.

Dust on crust today was good at Kwood. Nuked until 2pm.

Raw Clip.

[old goat]

KT BC gate?

http://www.squaw.com/kt-backcountry-gate

Same arrangement as last spring--was only open a few days I believe. At one point I think they had the route groomed. It's basically a lower angle tour--not significant new downhill terrain.

On another note--here's a link to the updated Squaw Valley Village plan. http://www.placer.ca.gov/Departments...cificPlan.aspx

[unpossible]

Looks like Andy from Unofficial Alpine, sampled the KT backcountry gate: http://unofficialalpine.com/?p=1036

Unofficial squaw goes both ways: http://unofficialnetworks.com/kt22-b...report-114803/

[Wickedbrew4u]

Been awhile since I skied either of those resorts, is there any interesting terrain between the two? I'm assuming the White Wolf stuff is still off limits since its Private property.

White wolf is off limits but directly off the back of KT is pretty good vert if you follow those empty lift towers down. But still not too sure where the actual trail is. The map on the website is pretty fuzzy.

I can ski back to my house on AM access rd now. That aspect get a crap ton of sun and gets baked out pretty quick but corn should be good too.

Pretty pleased that they are opening terrain instead of closin it. They opened Oregon trail last year off Silvy then this little guy. Best would be north facing aspect of broken arrow...

[Wickedbrew4u]

Just read on the page that the gate is off the saddle towards horsetails. Not much skiing there but still super cool to have the option.

http://unofficialnetworks.com/kt22-b...report-114803/