Summit help, is this a decent location?

**CaddyDaddy77** · 12-10-2003, 11:42 AM

Friend that is meeting up with us has a company place in Tahoe Park? Is this a good location for the summit? I'm totally unfamiliar with the area, and not really sure it's distance to the resorts.

Any help greatly appreciated.

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**Tyrone Shoelaces** · 12-10-2003, 11:48 AM

Just got your email mang....I gotta run, but I'll shoot you off something later this evening. You'll probably get good beta here though too.

But briefly, (and hopefully some of the other guys can help me out here):

time to squaw/Alpine: 30 minutes? maybe?
time to Sugar Bowl: 45? 50?

time to Kirkwood:
if 89 is open: 1 hour?
if 89 is closed: hmmmmmm.....2????

**wookalar** · 12-10-2003, 11:55 AM

I used to live there. It's 10 minutes from Tahoe City, max. With good roads/traffic, you'll be in Squaw or Alpine in 20 mins. Down to South Lake is it's own adventure. Good roads, 30 minutes to the town. Sugar Bowl's going to be a drive, since you gotta go back out to Truckee and then up the Pass. Probably close to an hour.

It's not (((close))) to any resorts, save Homewood, but it's probably about as right in the middle as it gets if you're planning on hitting Squaw, Sugar Bowl and Kirkwood. Sunnyside's a fun place to get drinks and food, and it's a reasonable cab ride to Tahoe City- check the Naughty Dawg and Pete n Peters.

**CaddyDaddy77** · 12-10-2003, 11:59 AM

Cool thanks, really appreciate the info. I was guessing there would be a bit of driving involved, but at least it's kind of in between everything.

**splat** · 12-10-2003, 01:59 PM

Originally posted by CaddyDaddy77
Cool thanks, really appreciate the info. I was guessing there would be a bit of driving involved, but at least it's kind of in between everything.

Caddy Daddy - That's a nice area, but the traffic on weekends can be unbearable getting into and out of Tahoe City, and as usual, to Squaw. The reason is its far from Kirkwood, and I feel safe on the presumption, you have to drive around three quarters of the lake to get there because Hiway 89 closes in the winter, seldom ever opening until mid-April. If you can find an option in Incline, Carnelian Bay,Kings Beach or South Lake, I'd say go there.
edit:::::: If its free, do it! (just saw that and presumed again)

For anyone looking for a good, cheap hotel, check out the Crown in Kings Beach. On the water, humble and CHEAP. There's a room on the water with a fireplace that's the best room in the joint and the price is staggeringly reasonable. It's older, but then......

**CaddyDaddy77** · 12-10-2003, 03:08 PM

Splat thanks for the additional info.
If 89 closes I would have a hard time going south, towards Heavenly? Am I correct in my thinking? Would I have to then go up and around to get to Kirkwood? Sorry for the tard q's but I have no experience in this locale.

The deal is pretty sweet, free on the weekend and then $180 for the whole house on the weekdays, with five people it's bargain shopping for sure, but trying to figure out if it's a good location when I haven't ever been there is a bit difficult.

Thanks again.

**OffAxis** · 12-10-2003, 03:21 PM

Just throwing my experience up here, but going around the east side of the lake is pretty quick. I made it from South Lake to Truckee in an hour this weekend. No traffic though, but the pass up by Flatstar was a bit hairy. 89 takes forever even with dry roads, and I wouldn't want to drive it if the roads are slick. Up by Emerald Bay there's a stretch of road that is two lanes with no guard rails and no shoulder with 400 foot cliffs on both sides. Freaked me out in sunny dry weather.

With jumping from North Lake resorts to South Lake resorts it's going to be a good amount of driving no matter where you stay.

**britney** · 12-10-2003, 03:55 PM

just stating the obvious cause i havent seen it so far -- you would be in the "west shore" (in the greater region of "north shore")which is homewood/sunnyside zone. i love the west shore because of the big trees. you are right -- it is kind of in the middle of everything, but that also means you have to drive to everything. closest burg is tahoe city, and the bars there appear to be "pete n peters" and "pierce street annex" behind the safeway (unless i'm missing out on the cool bars - prolly so).

for the summit, id say you should (ideally) get 2 different places to stay -- one in north shore for squaw/alpine/etc. (this place in west shore would count), and another one in south shore for the days you will be at kwood or heavenly. the drive around the lake is hairy. making the drive for one day can be OK, but you wouldnt want to make it a daily commute.

just my .02
-brit

**CaddyDaddy77** · 12-10-2003, 03:59 PM

Thanks mags! Really appreciate all the info.

Might look into the split house thing.

BTW, Britney what happens in 6 days? Didn't see your name in the Calendar for B-days, what gives?

**britney** · 12-10-2003, 04:29 PM

um, nobody seems to get this!

i'll give you 2 hints:

1) NSR

2)

ash nazg durbataluk
ash nazg gimbatul
ash nazg thrakatuluk
agh burzum-ishi krimpatul!

**Dingleberry** · 12-10-2003, 04:36 PM

Originally posted by britney
ash nazg durbataluk
ash nazg gimbatul
ash nazg thrakatuluk
agh burzum-ishi krimpatul!

Ahhh, Britney is one with the ring.

**watersnowdirt** · 12-10-2003, 04:36 PM

Originally posted by OffAxis
89 takes forever even with dry roads, and I wouldn't want to drive it if the roads are slick. Up by Emerald Bay there's a stretch of road that is two lanes with no guard rails and no shoulder with 400 foot cliffs on both sides.

They close it when it gets snowy, so this is where the problem is - if it's dumping, that part of 89 is closed so you are forced to go around the entire lake to get to Kwood and south shore. That's got to be a haul, though I don't know the timing.

**Telenater** · 12-10-2003, 04:45 PM

If 89 is closed at emerald bay (the primary closure spot), from the west shore, you have a minimum of a 40mile trip around the lake. In snowy conditions it takes a while.

**Arty50** · 12-10-2003, 04:50 PM

Originally posted by OffAxis
Up by Emerald Bay there's a stretch of road that is two lanes with no guard rails and no shoulder with 400 foot cliffs on both sides. Freaked me out in sunny dry weather.

Now imagine driving on that stretch after a storm when there's a nice layer of ice/sluff on it. Everyone (myself included) was driving so slowly a 100 year old grandma with a walker would have passed us. Scariest drive evar!

**watersnowdirt** · 12-10-2003, 04:52 PM

Yikes Arty! That's my worst nightmare. When did you have to do that?

**Arty50** · 12-10-2003, 04:56 PM

I was headed up to Alpine right after a big late season dump and it was snowing lightly that morning as I recall. 89 was relatively clear but that one section was very, very, very hairy. I've never been so scared in a car.

**CaddyDaddy77** · 12-10-2003, 05:00 PM

So I've gathered that I should take one for the team and bring a two -wheel drive dually 350 Chevy that is unable to travel over 30 miles at a time, therefore making it snow nightly. Is this correct?

Sounds like the K-weed locale is a necessity to make this feasible, thanks again.

**britney** · 12-10-2003, 05:18 PM

Originally posted by Dingleberry
Ahhh, Britney is one with the ring.

dingle speaks my language! (or, more precisely, the Black Speech).

**CaddyDaddy77** · 12-10-2003, 05:22 PM

Originally posted by britney
dingle speaks my language! (or, more precisely, the Black Speech).

Just got it, pretty stoked about that too, my mind wasn't on that today.

**britney** · 12-10-2003, 05:28 PM

Originally posted by CaddyDaddy77
Just got it, pretty stoked about that too, my mind wasn't on that today.

so you know what the translation was in the Common Tongue, right?

**Viva** · 12-10-2003, 05:40 PM

Originally posted by splat
It's older, but then......

...so are you.

As far as accommodations go, I always stay on the south shore. When going around the lake, the drive up the east side is usually pretty decent (even in the summer it's way faster than going Hwy 89) and you're closer to K-wood.

I like the idea of getting places on both ends of the lake, depending on where we're skiing a particular day, and spliting with others.

**CaddyDaddy77** · 12-10-2003, 05:44 PM

only if I think it's
not what I first
engaged in my mind.

rather
it"s
not the only thought
gone

to the cleaners
or worse

right?
usually I get these,
little help I might need,
eventually.

then again I
hit my head
earlier,
might not be right up there.

always the
last to know
last to go.

Get it?

**britney** · 12-10-2003, 05:53 PM

Originally posted by CaddyDaddy77
only if I think it's
not what I first
engaged in my mind.

rather
it"s
not the only thought
gone

to the cleaners
or worse

right?
usually I get these,
little help I might need,
eventually.

then again I
hit my head
earlier,
might not be right up there.

always the
last to know
last to go.

Get it?

um, that went over my head, but then again i'm a cartoon.

hint: nazg translates to "ring" as in "nazgul" = ringwraiths.

**CaddyDaddy77** · 12-10-2003, 05:56 PM

Originally posted by britney
um, that went over my head, but then again i'm a cartoon.

hint: nazg translates to "ring" as in "nazgul" = ringwraiths.

Follow it down the left hand side, see what you get.