14/?? The OFFICIAL Tahoe Thread

[old goat]

Ur all pussies. Go to Chamonix once in your lives.

You mean the place where they have heavy ropes on the arete of the Aiguille du Midi to keep the likes of me from sliding all the way down to town.

As far as snowboarders not using the traverse, that's utter nonsense of course. But I'll forward your post to the father of the girl who was killed--he'll be happy to know his daughter didn't get killed because she wasn't there and has just run away.

[Badfish]

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this but I have 2 Ski Lake Tahoe Six Pack lift tickets for sale. We were planning a trip out there this year but plans have changed. Asking $300 each.

[Huck Pitueee]

Ding! Ding! Ding!

Haha! We stuck to Incline peak. Crowded but fun.

[TahoeJ]

My point is they don't shut down the mountain because a gaper might lose their footing.

I get what you're saying - personal responsibility and all of that - but it's hardly patrol's fault that this country is infested with too many lawyers.

[WestCoastPDR]

Enough bitching. Back to the stoke.

Snows still good on certain aspects. Dawn patrol was great. Well ok not great for my buddy on a powsurf.

Back to work now

[TahoeJ]

Here's some footage from Tuesday at Squaw. Damn GoPro froze for about an hour or longer until I realized it wasn't recording, so this is mostly after 11 or so. There was plenty of untracked before that. Still can't figure out why more people weren't there first thing in the morning.

[P-ville Madman]

^^^^nice footy! I would say the same for KW on Tuesday. That place was a ghost town. It was like old KW (with some shitty outdoor bar at the base!) no lift lines, my phone actually connected to the network when I had to dial into a meeting, didn't get told I was going too fast. Good times all in all (except for ripping my binding out of my ski)

[TahoeBC]

Question for anyone who may have gotten out this morning, even though at least in south lake in town things froze, snowtel sensors suggest an inversion is in place and nothing got below freezing even in the highest locations. Is the snow pack becoming consolidated and did a supportable crust layer form last night?

[The Dad]

My apologies for the initial dumb question...

Not a dumb question at all. I just think that if you think about it, you can probably figure out a lot of the possibilities. old goat's list is a good starting point:

A run may close because of bad coverage, avy danger, hasn't been controlled yet, too icy, running a free ride event, the only lift out of there is broken or too windy to run it, poor visibility, trying to keep the corn in good shape (high T at AM, smoothie at SV in the spring).

... but I think the big one is:

they can't get a toboggan down.

[old goat]

For those who use Clark's (Donner Lake) Bike and Ski, Greg is open for a couple of weeks between road trips with the team he coaches. Phone is now 530 448 4985.

[sqikunst]

As a person in the Alps that coverage still looks soo good. It looks pretty sketch when it turns to a pure sheet of ice but damn it looks like that mountain is covered. Nice vid @TahoeJ.

[WestCoastPDR]

Question for anyone who may have gotten out this morning, even though at least in south lake in town things froze, snowtel sensors suggest an inversion is in place and nothing got below freezing even in the highest locations. Is the snow pack becoming consolidated and did a supportable crust layer form last night?

Seemed like hot pow conditions that defiantly didn't freeze over night. At 7800 in the KW valley there was some frozen mank. The trees skiing back to the car at 8:15am were already sticky. I was back at the car by 820 so I cannot say how things were later on today. But at 7500 feet at my house today I had the windows open this afternoon.

[TahoeBC]

Thanks PBR! Pretty much what I figured, gonna spend the next 4 days riding the brown pow in Santa Cruz.

Maybe a miracle march before summer sets in for good, pretty fucking depressing.

[Ottime]

It was hot down on the coast today. Gorgeous. My sone complained about the heat wen we stepped out doors at 10am. Went back in and changed into shorts. That can't be good for the snow.

[mcski]

[QUOTE=TahoeBC. Maybe a miracle march before summer sets in for good, pretty fucking depressing.[/QUOTE]

Getting pretty tired of ponying up for the family's season passes. Think I'll skip that and spend on a new mtb next year since its likely to be more of that in Tahoe anyway.

[rod9301]

That's true, but in the meantime skiing is awesome.

[gageyk]

Skiing from 8200 to 9500 on Slide Mountain was pretty damn fine today. I showed up at 1PM. It was somewhat sticky on the Slide side, Chutes still were scratchy where they slid ,pretty sweet elsewhere. Not winter, nor corn. Could "feel" moisture in the snow but it skied quite well. Coverage better than at any time last season. Rose side was pretty damn nice. Could find pockets of winter snow on some runs. It was 53 at 1PM. Snow was better than expected fo sure. One more day tomorrow then to the coast so the Bay area can enjoy the mountains.

For those wondering where everyone was Tuesday, they were at Rose. I've never seen it so crowded midweek non holiday. Lots of Squawalpine folks were enjoying Nevada.

[Nevada29er]

Skiing from 8200 to 9500 on Slide Mountain was pretty damn fine today. I showed up at 1PM. It was somewhat sticky on the Slide side, Chutes still were scratchy where they slid ,pretty sweet elsewhere. Not winter, nor corn. Could "feel" moisture in the snow but it skied quite well. Coverage better than at any time last season. Rose side was pretty damn nice. Could find pockets of winter snow on some runs. It was 53 at 1PM. Snow was better than expected fo sure. One more day tomorrow then to the coast so the Bay area can enjoy the mountains.

For those wondering where everyone was Tuesday, they were at Rose. I've never seen it so crowded midweek non holiday. Lots of Squawalpine folks were enjoying Nevada.

Charge had some pucker factor for sure on Tues. Since patrol slide all the new soft snow off the top, the layer underneath was an older rain crust, which was smooth, firm, and steep. Top half was a no fall zone for sure, but mid way down, it turned to soft fresh slough.

Detonator and everything to the west had a 2-3 foot slab at the top where it slid, and was probably considered off limits due to the rope line on yellow jacket. Looked pretty boney below the slide zone, may have to get a closer look this weekend.

[thefrush]

Anybody interested in touring around Shasta or Lassen next week?

[mountainlion]

Sunk a ski last saturday at the bottom of the hourglass couloir on Tamarack. DPS Wailer 112RP Pure3. 184" Dynafit Vertical ST binding. yellow.

$100 REWARD. PM me if you find it (or want to, i'll give you the gps coords of crash site)

I'm going out this Sunday with showshoes and a search party.

[spnce]

i'm sitting in a t-shirt and shorts on my deck in truckee, no shoes.

the sun was hot so i moved to the shade.

[kungpow]

Alpine was soft and smooth today. Hikes are closed though... understand, I do not.

[old goat]

Alpine was soft and smooth today. Hikes are closed though... understand, I do not.

Didn't ski there today, but at least on the web site the hike over to high yellow, etc was showing open. High T closed of course. It is hard to understand High Beaver being closed--since Low Beaver is open it's not lack of exit for a sled or wet snow avalanche risk. The traverse over there was fine 2 days ago after patrol shoveled a track. Estelle closed due to lack of an exit.

[Ottime]

Alpine was soft and smooth today. Hikes are closed though... understand, I do not.

Re-read my post earlier. No overnight freeze? They close the hike. The worry is that the cornices will collapse under a skiers weight and they might go for a slide.

I used to head up there in the spring, and always checked ahead to see if the temps on the remote sensor when down to 32F for at least two hours.

[kungpow]

Yeah whatever I remember the hikes open during these kinds of conditions before