14/?? The OFFICIAL Tahoe Thread

**rod9301** · 03-23-2015, 09:24 AM

Skied all aspects around silver peak saturday and sunday.
Good coverage down to bradley hut.
Great corn.

**splat** · 03-23-2015, 11:01 AM

Originally Posted by TahoeBC

East facing slopes had really nice corn, north facing stuff stayed locked up today

Some of the most winteresque shots I've seen lately.
I skied Heavenly Friday and it was the first day in almost six years I skied and my knee was painless.
It made me want to go huck a cornice.

**tpacent** · 03-23-2015, 04:44 PM

Got into an awkwardly heated conversation with a guy a Kirkwood today. He lives in Colorado and was skiing with his buddy from Miami. He was trying to tell me how beaver creek where he skis every weekend is steeper and gnarlier than Kirkwood. My eye roll was over the top obvious.

**thefrush** · 03-23-2015, 05:17 PM

While the Stone Creek Chutes at Beav offer some fun stuff, Kirkwood shits all over BC.

**TahoeJ** · 03-23-2015, 05:30 PM

Originally Posted by tpacent

Got into an awkwardly heated conversation with a guy a Kirkwood today. He lives in Colorado and was skiing with his buddy from Miami. He was trying to tell me how beaver creek where he skis every weekend is steeper and gnarlier than Kirkwood. My eye roll was over the top obvious.

Why even bother arguing with someone like that? Just shake your head, post in the gaper quote thread, and move on.

**Vets** · 03-23-2015, 09:16 PM

Originally Posted by tpacent

Got into an awkwardly heated conversation with a guy a Kirkwood today. He lives in Colorado and was skiing with his buddy from Miami. He was trying to tell me how beaver creek where he skis every weekend is steeper and gnarlier than Kirkwood. My eye roll was over the top obvious.

Well, the escalators at Beaver Creek are much steeper than the stairway heading up to Timber Creek at Kirkwood.

**WTF is dat** · 03-23-2015, 09:42 PM

Originally Posted by tpacent

Got into an awkwardly heated conversation with a guy a Kirkwood today. He lives in Colorado and was skiing with his buddy from Miami. He was trying to tell me how beaver creek where he skis every weekend is steeper and gnarlier than Kirkwood. My eye roll was over the top obvious.

Nothing wrong with stone creek chutes and royal elk glade at the beav. Certainly not as gnarly as kirkwood but the beav definitely has good pitch.

And at least there is still snow at the beav.

With that said, these pictures make me sad for California. I just pray there are not too many wildfires this summer

**skier666** · 03-24-2015, 12:48 PM

4-8" at Kirkwood???? Gift from the Gods to help them get through another week or so. My sister from Hawaii is up there all week with her kids and she's stoked....it was looking grim on Sunday.

In any case, I took my 6 year old to Boreal for an hour of night skiing on Saturday and had a rad time. Sunday at Kirkwood was pretty damn fun. Weather was perfect and my son called the shots the entire day. Backside was the gem of the day with the upper portion of all the runs yielding awesome wide corn groomers. Chair 11 skied well on all the runs but the bottom was dirt mixed with snow by the end of the day so I can understand why they called it. Timber Creek got a bit dirty starting at the bottom 25%. Upper Zachs and Sentinel were still skiing well.

Night skiin'...

Last day of Chair 4 at Kirkwood...

Snowsnake gully!

**LightRanger** · 03-24-2015, 03:21 PM

^^^ He ever been night skiing before? I bet he thought it was cool as shit.

**tpacent** · 03-24-2015, 04:44 PM

Kirkwood had surprisingly a decent amount of new snow off the wall. 4-5 inches of mank that got mankier as the day went on but fun. Been spitting snow the past hour or two and buffed out groomers tomorrow should be good and depending on snow totals could be some more fun fresh. Here's to winter in spring time.

**Huck Pitueee** · 03-24-2015, 05:39 PM

Squaw got 7 in the last 48 hours? Any one check it out today?

**meter-man** · 03-24-2015, 06:18 PM

I suppose this is an impossibly stupid question to ask, but I'm good at those. How is Deso holding up? Any reports?

I've got next week planned to be in Tahoe with the wife and kiddos, and trying to figure what to do (other than mountain biking and slush bumps).

**shakyknees** · 03-24-2015, 06:21 PM

Toured around Elephant's Back and Red Lake today; less new snow than I was expecting from KW reports, seemed like 3", mank with wind crust. Better than nothing. Coverage is down from a week ago but still very skiable to the road.

**rod9301** · 03-24-2015, 07:58 PM

Squaw was really good today.
Some icy bumps, but soft, wet ice, and great powder on between.

**Ottime** · 03-24-2015, 10:01 PM

Looking from 88, Deso was looking real thin. I imagine it is one hell of a bush wack to get back there. Would be better off playing around CPSSR, I would think.

**TahoeBC** · 03-25-2015, 07:54 AM

Just looking from south lake it looks like fun turns could be had in the Desolation, but you need to pay to play. I've been considering loading the kayak with skis and paddling across upper and lower Echo lakes to ski Baldy and Ralston, which I've done in late June and early July when the boat taxi is running after a normal winter and it's pretty fun. Possibly the quickest trail access to decent snow would be to hike up the summer trail from camp sac to the top of Ralston, trail is probably nearly or completely burnt out right to the top. From what I can see from town the slopes above Aloha look good and even Pyramid looks like it might go right from the top on the North side, but it would be a slog to get in there.

**meter-man** · 03-25-2015, 10:05 AM

Originally Posted by Ottime

Looking from 88, Deso was looking real thin. I imagine it is one hell of a bush wack to get back there. Would be better off playing around CPSSR, I would think.

Originally Posted by TahoeBC

Just looking from south lake it looks like fun turns could be had in the Desolation, but you need to pay to play. I've been considering loading the kayak with skis and paddling across upper and lower Echo lakes to ski Baldy and Ralston, which I've done in late June and early July when the boat taxi is running after a normal winter and it's pretty fun. Possibly the quickest trail access to decent snow would be to hike up the summer trail from camp sac to the top of Ralston, trail is probably nearly or completely burnt out right to the top. From what I can see from town the slopes above Aloha look good and even Pyramid looks like it might go right from the top on the North side, but it would be a slog to get in there.

Thanks for the beta - about what I was expecting. With all the "good" weather, I guess it's time to go for long walks in the mountains.

**Vets** · 03-25-2015, 07:23 PM

Another One Bites The Dust...

Diamond Peak will be closing on Sunday, March 29th (two weeks earlier than originally scheduled.)

**kungpow** · 03-25-2015, 07:38 PM

Short but fun wind buff hot pow snow stuff on mainline pocket today... did 3 laps. I guess that's like half the vert of a good run?

**powdrhound** · 03-25-2015, 11:43 PM

Sentinal and Palisades are both holding nice lines. Only had to clip out once yesterday.
They are doing an amazing job of covering many of the rocks at the top of Cornice/Zachary. For a while. I chucked several dozen rocks off into tree wells.
Sad to get so excited over a 3" refresh. But it was fun.

WestCoastPDR · 03-26-2015, 10:41 AM

Originally Posted by powdrhound

Sentinal and Palisades are both holding nice lines.

Skied near Jeffs line on Tuesday around noon. Ended up walking out to funny bunny rather than trashing my bases. There were a few good turns in there from the ridge / Avy bomb clothes line area. Needless to say I won't be returning to that area any time soon with skis. Sentinels trail might be good for bikes in a few weeks.

**christoph benells** · 03-26-2015, 12:12 PM

Originally Posted by meter-man

I suppose this is an impossibly stupid question to ask, but I'm good at those. How is Deso holding up? Any reports?

I've got next week planned to be in Tahoe with the wife and kiddos, and trying to figure what to do (other than mountain biking and slush bumps).

I was on kalmia ridge behind azure lake, desolation is fully covered with snow. It was great hot powder yesterday.

Crystal range, Jacks, and Dicks all looked to be amazing. Area behind azure lake was awesome, about a 2 hour hike to snow line from bayview TH. Snow starts on the backside of the lake. I would say its well worth it, but I guess that depends on your personal ratio of suffering/turns.

For me it was a 9-5 day, with two awesome top to bottom laps.

**TahoeBC** · 03-27-2015, 08:41 AM

^^ Nice work, was wondering if there was decent coverage above Azure, I dig that zone

**gimpy** · 03-27-2015, 09:11 AM

Quite a few storms seemed to stall out over desolation this last winter including the storm of the century. Loads of snow back there but access is tricky. I was turned on the accessing deso from wrights lake rd w sleds. Parking at the wilderness boundary behind pyramid leaves only an hour hike to the top of pyramid. While i don't think sled access is happening right now, a mtn bike approach on wrights lake rd could be the easiest way to get in ther.