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

[powdork]

i'm all for sharing. and i haven't skied a tracked out line in the bc this season. it just doesn't happen. besides that, talking about them doesn't do jack when folks can't see them from the road or when there's a 2 hr skin to get to the zone...

[shakyknees]

This my 3rd full season bc skiing in South lake after moving here spring 2010. I'd like to say thanks to all the locals who put in the skin tracks and are always friendly and helpful out there. South Lake is a bc skiing mecca, and the large community of bc skiers here are part of what makes it great - so many skin tracks, so little time!

I've gotten most of my trip ideas from books and other sites, and I didn't start lurking here until recently when my attempts at joining TTips were unsuccessful. I am hoping to share pix here but my 2 attempts at posting them were shunted off to a moderator over a day ago. (sorry for the double post if they ever come through).

Yes the "front" of the bc really got skied out in this dry spell - I was lucky enough to find some goods - I'm very grateful it wasn't skied out.

[Patches]

You can post about skiing fresh snow,
or you can ski fresh snow,
but you can't do both.

Interesting that this year there is hardly any resort talk, its all BC all the time here.

Stoke or narcissism? Deserves its own thread.

[BGnight]

Reading about or seeing pics of resort skiing vs b.c. skiing is pretty night and day as far as being interesting. I'd rather do away with all resort talk or have separate threads like we did 2 years ago. Our eastside thread this year is already getting all gayed up by boring inbounds Mammoth mtn pics and reports. I'm gonna lobby to get an entire backcountry ONLY eastside thread. The eastside is too rad to share the same thread with pics of tracked out snow with L.A. gapers.

But I do have a bitch about Squaw monday. How in the hell do they not regroom ONE fucking single run (besides standard access runs) overnight on a holiday?!

[Power_Sauce]

Hey Tahoe mags. Going to be road tripping through your neck of the woods the next three or so days. Will be looking tour and hit Squaw a couple times. Any recommendations for good places to park overnight nearish to Squaw?

If anyone's down to show a PNWer around for a tour shoot me a PM.

[BGnight]

there are certain spots that are prolly not really a good idea to talk about on the internet. especially certain subzones of the most travelled bc spot in s lake. unless you enjoy finding your line tracked.

i am all about sharing things w/ all the folks that contribute here, but the reality is that there are 10x more lurkers who contribute nada and only take take take. i used to think it not to have a significant impact but i have seen that is not the case.

sorry, not trying to be a buzzkill but...........its truth

I'm with ya on this. I have a favorite zone I'm very protective of. It's out of a popular parking area but thankfully people don't go there out of laziness, herd mentality, and ignorance (yet in my expert opinion it's the best skiing in the area). For this reason I walk up the road a bit then walk in to the woods covering my tracks before I start skinning. Sounds ridiculous, but compared to the few times I put a track in to "my" zone off the main route the traffic difference is huge. I'm amazed at how little imagination the majority of people who do b.c. have. They just follow the leader or break trail and ride the skin track down. To these lemmings I am most thankful

As far as your Stevens line. Gracias for posting pics. Definitely on my near term hit list

[The Dad]

But I do have a bitch about Squaw monday. How in the hell do they not regroom ONE fucking single run (besides standard access runs) overnight on a holiday?!

Yeah, that was weird.

[thudder]

Any Reno mags interested in carpooling to Squaw/Alpine or Rose? I'm looking to head up Monday afternoons, Wednesdays, and Fri/Sat/Sun each week. I'm also looking for people to tour with, especially after I take my Avy I course in February.

[TahoeJ]

Reading about or seeing pics of resort skiing vs b.c. skiing is pretty night and day as far as being interesting.

Yeah, the resort talk usually devolves into people complaining about ski patrol and how they open up the mountain.

Sorry, had to.

Anyway, I think it's fine with it all in the same place - this thread isn't that out of control or anything. Split into two threads would turn into a shit-show of cross-linking between them all the time... IMHO.

[Nuthon]

there are certain spots that are prolly not really a good idea to talk about on the internet. especially certain subzones of the most travelled bc spot in s lake. unless you enjoy finding your line tracked.

i am all about sharing things w/ all the folks that contribute here, but the reality is that there are 10x more lurkers who contribute nada and only take take take. i used to think it not to have a significant impact but i have seen that is not the case.
sorry, not trying to be a buzzkill but...........its truth

Not really worried about it. With how much traffic the popular side has gotten & the fact that I went back again today, & found the exact same conditions & only crossed my tracks from Sunday i'd say that it isn't really an issue.
Besides people are lemmings & don't want to get to far away from the skin track. The skin @ the bottom back to the car keeps quite a few people away also.
There are plenty of lines for everyone
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[ridefree]

Not really worried about it. With how much traffic the popular side has gotten & the fact that I went back again today, & found the exact same conditions & only crossed my tracks from Sunday i'd say that it isn't really an issue.
Besides people are lemmings & don't want to get to far away from the skin track. The skin @ the bottom back to the car keeps quite a few people away also.
There are plenty of lines for everyone
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This is utter Bullshit! I kept crossing tracks today because you were in front of ME!
( Next Time I'll be faster on the up I swear)

[AKbruin]

I need to ski south lake lines with south lake folks more often.

[ridefree]

There are options but is going to cost you A LOT of $$$$$.

[tahoearmada]

Theres still LOTS of untracked snow inbounds... I can't even fathom the BC being tracked out

[pizzaforbreakfast]

Light rain starting in the foothills west of KW now (2500 ft).

[bodywhomper]

Not really worried about it. With how much traffic the popular side has gotten & the fact that I went back again today, & found the exact same conditions & only crossed my tracks from Sunday i'd say that it isn't really an issue.

i thought that there was a general consensus that the 'popular side' was not nearly so popular prior to ... maybe 2004-ish....

[powdork]

i think that area is kind of a special exception. many people go to powderhouse cause its the safe tree skiing tour, and that part doesn't meet those requirements combined with the extra effort required to get back to the car.

this year has been weird though. lots of obscure stuff was getting hit over the blackout period. it was kind of crazy. but 2 saturdays ago i was at carson pass at 8:30 on a saturday (safe powder day too) and was first car there. ended up picking folks up at kirkwood and came back at 9:45. we were still first on the trail. fast forward seven dry days, and after three days of never crossing a track on the north side of carson pass, we got third tracks down the center of elephant back (starting at 10am). it got hit pretty hard later, but that was another blackout day.

[Nuthon]

i thought that there was a general consensus that the 'popular side' was not nearly so popular prior to ... maybe 2004-ish....

its been the place to go since I moved here in 97. The fact that you can see it from the road, the explosion of new bc gear are probably why it has got so popular, not because of some internet forum.

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[bodywhomper]

i admit, there's a guidebook with in there, too, starring many of the local stars on this and other forums. i have nothing against those that posted on forums about it back then and i don't care too much about it now (unless it's the few obscure stashes that i tend to enjoy), I don't think they knew the re-percussion (i sure didn't), but they definitely seem more guarded now (or maybe they are just busier these days). my observation, the crowds ain't nothing like they were back in 1997 or even 2000. the black-out dates definitely contribute, but combine the black-out dates, locals posting and showing the excellence mid-week of roadside conditions, and those places become bonkers on the weekend.

if we really want to get scientific and shit, collectively not post about outrageous mid-week conditions at one of the roadside attractions but continue to post about the similar conditions at the other ones and see what happens over the weekend with the crowds. Then change roadside attractions following a the same strategy after the next storm cycle....

[Jim S]

I need to ski south lake lines with south lake folks more often.

+ 1

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[snuttypants]

Skiing kwood tomorrow. Any takers?

[SchralphMacchio]

I hear the skiing on Jack's Peak has been outrageously excellent midweek. I don't have any pictures to post showing how good it's been, but I do have pictures of Bloody Couloir in deep powder on a weekend that I can share (yeah, yeah guys, I'm working on it ... just started new job n shit).

[bodywhomper]

glacier point seemed to have been pretty amazing, too.... go get it!

[Nuthon]

if we really want to get scientific and shit, collectively not post about outrageous mid-week conditions at one of the roadside attractions but continue to post about the similar conditions at the other ones and see what happens over the weekend with the crowds. Then change roadside attractions following a the same strategy after the next storm cycle....

That would be interesting, but I have the attention span of a 5 year old & would likely forget about it before it even started............................... huh

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[bodywhomper]

me, too. i'm just the ideas guy....