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

[~mikey b]

Calm down son.

you sound like me...

and

heading up for Winter Sports Injury Symposium on Monday - maybe driving and skiing Sunday - skiing and driving home Tuesday

[powdork]

woke up this morning with plans to hike with hutchski, nacho and two other doggies out to elephant back, or something simple like that. it was gloomy and we were hoping for corn conditions. i think we were playing cancellation chicken where neither one of us wanted to be the one to call it, but either one of us would have been ok with the decision. still, we loaded up the car and headed west, noting how things looked a tad less dark that way.
at carson pass, we put 3 out of 4 boots on before deiciding it was told cold, windy, and rock hard to warrant heading out into the flat light. we opted to keep going to danberg in the valley. that way we could just take a low angle descent if everything is frozen solid. before we got to kirkwood, the open field to the left of the cliffs behind caples lake caught our eye. easy approach. appeared to bathed in what we were calling sunlight. low angle enough we couldn't get in trouble.
these are Taz (front and center) and Yogi


and this is where we went. you already know nacho and hutchski


and in case you forgot. Taz and Yogi


our first run was a tad firm, and then not, and then firm again. the views were consistent though


there's the crew. "phew. we're done, right?"


no way man. the fun has just begun


at least for me. for hutchski, the work has just begun


continued on powdork.com

[old goat]

woke up this morning with plans to hike with hutchski, nacho and two other doggies out to elephant back, or something simple like that. it was gloomy and we were hoping for corn conditions. i think we were playing cancellation chicken where neither one of us wanted to be the one to call it, but either one of us would have been ok with the decision. still, we loaded up the car and headed west, noting how things looked a tad less dark that way.
at carson pass, we put 3 out of 4 boots on before deiciding it was told cold, windy, and rock hard to warrant heading out into the flat light. we opted to keep going to danberg in the valley. that way we could just take a low angle descent if everything is frozen solid. before we got to kirkwood, the open field to the left of the cliffs behind caples lake caught our eye. easy approach. appeared to bathed in what we were calling sunlight. low angle enough we couldn't get in trouble.
these are Taz (front and center) and Yogi


and this is where we went. you already know nacho and hutchski


and in case you forgot. Taz and Yogi


our first run was a tad firm, and then not, and then firm again. the views were consistent though


there's the crew. "phew. we're done, right?"


no way man. the fun has just begun


at least for me. for hutchski, the work has just begun


continued on powdork.com

No matter how dark, or cold, or windy, or icy the dogs never try to bail, do they? They're hard to discourage.

[Jim S]

Actually, dude touched upon the mind control aspect, as well.
He also pointed out how there's been more plane activity over the Tahoe skies the past several years, tying in with the drastic changes in weather (he kind of insinuated that these chem trails are why last winter and this winter have been so buggy).
When I commented on how I tend to see a lot of chem trails making X's in the sky he went on to say that they make specific patterns to deliver the mind control/weather changing chemicals more efficiently.
His Socrates quote was "He who controls the weather controls the world." I told him that sounded like some James Bond evil villain sh!t. His reply was "Really? I'm not up on James Bond and I've never seen a James Bond movie."
Additionally, there were already two crossed chem trails in the sky as we were riding up the lift and a third plane was making a trail to intersect the two previous ones. He pointed to the plane and exclaimed: "That ain't a normal chem trail. See how you can't even see the plane, but the chem trail is perfect and long-lasting? A normal chem trail would dissipate, but that one's lingering."
Nothing like a little slopeside Doomsday theory to make skiing groomers that much more interesting and definitely one of the more memorable conversations I've had on a lift.

It was just a double rainbow in the making.

Hoping Squaw upper mountain will deliver some goods Thurs and Fri and....

[Wickedbrew4u]

Jesus its incredible the amount of precip on the way. Mt rose might be decent. Not sure if they are open. We need a low to drop in and drop snow levels another 1000' at least for squaw lower mountain not get hammered by rain.

[MrSmith]

Thursday/Monday looking ok. Was hoping for some encouragement on Friday, but I'm not seeing it. NOAA Hourly Graphs showing solid precip and 80-90+ gusts at 8200 all day Friday.

Even nerdier weather guys, do those NOAA graphs come straight out of the GFS? Are there any similarly user friendly products from the other models?

[Ottime]

Squaw was much better than I anticipated today, although it was mostly about ripping groomers up top, with one boiler plate mogul field open off of Emmigrant. Best snow was on the sides of all the runs as it was kicked up powdered sugar deposits from all the suckers who persist in skiing down the middle. Heck, the snow off of the groomer underneath Siberia was almost ankle deep powder on the margins; folks were kicking up nice rosters of sugary spray (at least those skiing the sidelines).

The weather was overcast and mildly windy and there was a crazy burnt orange/magnetic yellow halo around the sun for part of the day (guy I rode up the lift with swore it was a conspiracy to change the weather; he said that the vapor trails we see from all the planes aren't really vapor trails but crazy weather/atmosphere changing chemicals being distributed by secret flying machines; I couldn't really argue with him given the weird halo effect and how the weather has drastically changed over the past several years, plus he had pictures of other climate abnormalities and weather weirdness on his phone...)

1) I call that chopped up ice Vermont powder

2) dude. Where have you been. There is a current discussion about the seriousness of vapor trails and such right here on TGR. Bone up. This stuff is important.

[thudder]

Jesus its incredible the amount of precip on the way. Mt rose might be decent. Not sure if they are open. We need a low to drop in and drop snow levels another 1000' at least for squaw lower mountain not get hammered by rain.

Rose has been open for a week, and has been skiing nicely considering it's still November. "Strong and damaging winds" in NOAA's forecast for Rose Saturday and Sunday, which likely means they'll only be spinning Lakeview (if that). Monday is looking good, though.

[irul&ublo]

Looks a bit damp (from tahoeweatherdiscussion.com):

Not much change again this morning. I’ve seen some of the media saying massive rains and 11,000 ft. snow levels melting everything away. I’m not sure what they are looking at but the storms look much colder than that to me. Not as cold as we want but not 9000-11000 ft. snow levels.

Snow levels on some of the model runs stay down at 7000 ft. into Saturday with 1-3 feet of snow above that. We start today with a light snowfall event above 7000 ft. with snow possibly mixing down to lake level by this evening. 3-6 inches above 7000 ft. with a slushy coating down to 6500 ft.

The next storm moves in Thursday night into Friday with the trend being more Friday into Friday night. The trend has been colder with this system with snow levels around 7000 ft. We could see 1-3 feet above 7000 ft.

The biggest storm is later Saturday into Sunday. The models still don’t agree on where the heaviest precip is aimed. This is the storm where the snow levels jump up to 8000 ft. and maybe briefly higher Saturday night, and then crash to lake level by Sunday afternoon. This storm drops 3-6 inches of liquid so it will be a lot of rain below 8000 ft. Saturday night. Above that 2-4 ft. of heavy snow are possible. We could see several inches down to 7000 ft. Sunday as snow levels fall and a few even down to lake level. Total snowfall above 8000 ft. of 3-7 feet possible.



I will be monitoring the snow levels throughout the weekend and will keep you updated.

The long-range looks quiet after this weekend but the forecast models have been all over the place. A lot of complicated and contradicting signals in the teleconnections. Stay tuned…BA

[Flexon Phil]

At this point, We can say EXACTLY what happens with this storm..on Tuesday. It is gonna be what it is gonna be. So far the season is still better than last year (but not as good as the year before).

[irul&ublo]

At this point, We can say EXACTLY what happens with this storm..on Tuesday. It is gonna be what it is gonna be.....

True there...raining in Truckee right now?

I find tahoeweatherdiscussion to be pretty accurate

[gimpy]

14.5" in the 5 day qpf!!!

[Ottime]

woke up this morning with plans to hike with hutchski, nacho and two other doggies out to elephant back, or something simple like that. it was gloomy and we were hoping for corn conditions. i think we were playing cancellation chicken where neither one of us wanted to be the one to call it, but either one of us would have been ok with the decision. still, we loaded up the car and headed west, noting how things looked a tad less dark that way.
at carson pass, we put 3 out of 4 boots on before deiciding it was told cold, windy, and rock hard to warrant heading out into the flat light. we opted to keep going to danberg in the valley. that way we could just take a low angle descent if everything is frozen solid. before we got to kirkwood, the open field to the left of the cliffs behind caples lake caught our eye. easy approach. appeared to bathed in what we were calling sunlight. low angle enough we couldn't get in trouble.
these are Taz (front and center) and Yogi


and this is where we went. you already know nacho and hutchski


and in case you forgot. Taz and Yogi


our first run was a tad firm, and then not, and then firm again. the views were consistent though


there's the crew. "phew. we're done, right?"


no way man. the fun has just begun


at least for me. for hutchski, the work has just begun


continued on powdork.com

That is a quality I like about you. You rarely, I ever, think it is too shitty to hike

[dookeyXXX]

10 a.m.ish and it just started raining in Truckee.

Squaw webcam for upper mountain just shows grey pictures, muted grey pictures, and pictures with grey augmented by globs (rain drops): http://www.squaw.com/the-mountain/conditions

Looking like it's gonna be a film festival day instead.

[BGnight]

Did you ask him if his handle was BG?
If the storms are at c, I'm goin w Wet Cunt

I've long given up most chemtrail beliefs I held (there is a thing called geo engineering but it's not taking place over cities every day like most chemtrail kooks believe) Chemtrail tards are the most annoying type of conspiracy people out there. They literally think any lingering contrail is without a doubt the gov't spraying poison on them.

Quoting an entire series of large photographs twice in one page is HIGHLY annoying too (please take 2 extra seconds and quote 1 for the same effect)

[Jim S]

Jesus its incredible the amount of precip on the way. Mt rose might be decent. Not sure if they are open. We need a low to drop in and drop snow levels another 1000' at least for squaw lower mountain not get hammered by rain.

Rose and the wind forecast could put the Magnum and possibly Lakeview lifts may be on wind hold. Probably still too thin for them to open the Slide side.

[Ottime]

Sorry to annoy you BG But not really. Sounds like you have a pretty low threshold for what annoys you. Life must be amazingly frustrating. It's the Internet. Just scroll down. I don't have a spare two seconds after typing this.

But I do apologize for being annoying and next time I won't quote from my phone were I can't tell the difference.

[Esses]

Damn! It is dumping on the Kirkwood webcam. Let's hope it builds up before the rain comes.

[BGnight]

woke up this morning with plans to hike with hutchski, nacho and two other doggies out to elephant back, or something simple like that. it was gloomy and we were hoping for corn conditions. i think we were playing cancellation chicken where neither one of us wanted to be the one to call it, but either one of us would have been ok with the decision. still, we loaded up the car and headed west, noting how things looked a tad less dark that way.
at carson pass, we put 3 out of 4 boots on before deiciding it was told cold, windy, and rock hard to warrant heading out into the flat light. we opted to keep going to danberg in the valley. that way we could just take a low angle descent if everything is frozen solid. before we got to kirkwood, the open field to the left of the cliffs behind caples lake caught our eye. easy approach. appeared to bathed in what we were calling sunlight. low angle enough we couldn't get in trouble.
these are Taz (front and center) and Yogi


and this is where we went. you already know nacho and hutchski


and in case you forgot. Taz and Yogi


our first run was a tad firm, and then not, and then firm again. the views were consistent though


there's the crew. "phew. we're done, right?"


no way man. the fun has just begun


at least for me. for hutchski, the work has just begun


continued on powdork.com

You're right. I enjoy quoted photo albums as of now. Enjoy!

[BGnight]

woke up this morning with plans to hike with hutchski, nacho and two other doggies out to elephant back, or something simple like that. it was gloomy and we were hoping for corn conditions. i think we were playing cancellation chicken where neither one of us wanted to be the one to call it, but either one of us would have been ok with the decision. still, we loaded up the car and headed west, noting how things looked a tad less dark that way.
at carson pass, we put 3 out of 4 boots on before deiciding it was told cold, windy, and rock hard to warrant heading out into the flat light. we opted to keep going to danberg in the valley. that way we could just take a low angle descent if everything is frozen solid. before we got to kirkwood, the open field to the left of the cliffs behind caples lake caught our eye. easy approach. appeared to bathed in what we were calling sunlight. low angle enough we couldn't get in trouble.
these are Taz (front and center) and Yogi


and this is where we went. you already know nacho and hutchski


and in case you forgot. Taz and Yogi


our first run was a tad firm, and then not, and then firm again. the views were consistent though


there's the crew. "phew. we're done, right?"


no way man. the fun has just begun


at least for me. for hutchski, the work has just begun


continued on powdork.com

Just for good measure.

[AKbruin]

Kinda a lurker here but I have done this tour plenty of times from different angles and approaches and if done right it has a 2,500 decent and some steepness to it. Thing to do is from Reno and from 431 look at the mountain and see the aspect you want to climb and the aspect that is best for skiing. Looking up there you see a open face that looks pretty good but it is a East face and most likely sun effected and crusty, so look to the area that faces NE and you see a steep tree shot that is next to the open face, that is the area that I think has the best potential for powder, steeps and longer run. OK, how do you approach it to climb and ski? First, it is a all day mission and just doing one run will be around 4,000 climb and two laps would be around 6,000 +-. this depends on where you start. There is a couple of ways to approach. First would be to start and finish from the hairpin turn just below Ski Tavern. Parking is sketchy sometimes you can park in a little area across 431 and cross the hiway, You want to immediately cross Galena Creek as there might be a bridge there, then high tranverse all the way up to the open area(one hour) skin up from there to the knob(one hour+) move to the NE and ski the tree shot down a long ways 2-3,000 vert. Climb it and do it again or climb out of the canyon and retrace back to car. You need to look ahead and skirt the many aspen trees. Two, my fav is to park in the last row at Mt. Rose resort, X 431 go beyond the old storage building, decend the 500 vert to Galena Creek, there is a bridge there so look for a cut out in the aspens off the pole line. High traverse to open area, climb and ski, retrace route back to resort. This tour can start from tamarack trailhead or that pullout before tamarack trailhead for additional vert and climb. Anyway, hope this is useful, this is a decent tour. The tree shot is totaly in the shade and holds powder for a long time so it has potential well after storm.

Thanks, Quadzilla!

[Ottime]

Good fun.

Dumped down here real hard for a bit. Now it is pretty much as breezy as it gets.

BG. Come on. You clogging up the interwebz.

One more for good luck.

[MashedPotatoes]

MASHEDPOTATOES SCROLL FINGER IS TIRED NOW. PAGE 31 PLEASE.

[WestCoastPDR]

Puking on the mt rose cams too. Elevation helps...

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[Ottime]

Here ya go mashed. Pointless post from the coast to move us to the next page. Sun is out here

And can you please refrain from using all caps. It is the most annoying thing ever.