Tahoe '24/'25 - This Thread Shall Not Be Privatized!!

[old goat]

I hate having to OD my wife with depressants every fourth.

FIFY

[PB]

Only if she disrupts the TP situation.

[old goat]

Sierra Watch et al and Alterra have reached an agreement and the law suit has been dropped.https://www.sierrawatch.org/news/

[old goat]

On a totally unrelated note--getting ready to hike up to Donner Peak, ran into 2 through hikers at the trailhead, looking confused at their phones. They started to head off south on Soda Springs Road. I asked if they needed help. They were trying to get to Soda Springs, not realizing that the town of Soda Springs and Soda Springs springs are two different places and that the latter is about as middle of nowhere as anywhere in the Sierra and a LONG way down the road. But they also said they were looking to take I 80 to get to Soda Springs. I pointed them to Donner Pass Rd and told them to go west a few miles. I was tempted to post in the Padded Room but it wouldn't have meant anything to people who don't know the area.

[lepistoir]

Reno and south lake could really take notes:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DL55n80s...VkamFrYXJlZ2w0


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[shaft]

Has anyone hiked Ellis or skied 4th of July Chutes in the past week? Wondering if there's still snow up there.

[LongShortLong]

Personal ski lift:
I nominate Vets and Dookie as Tahoe reps for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-FEUKFOMzI skip forward about 20 minutes to the skiing
or look at zoaeng.com. Supposedly gets about 2000 vert on a charge. And it'll run you $1700 or so.

I had a great idea for something similar to this 20 years ago, but hey look, these guys actually made it, tested it, and have a product for sale!
I made it as far as some basic design math, and looking at the size and weight of components. Mine would be so much better than theirs, but after 20 years and nothing to show, theirs wins.

[dookeyXXX]

I am gonna be the pedantic semantic and pint out that that’s not a ski lift, it’s a rope tow…

[insert winky emoji here]

[old goat]

6 fire vehicles flew by my house at Donner Lake, then a helicopter circled the lake for an our. No smoke. Some kind of SAR i suppose. Anyone know?

[J. Barron DeJong]

Just saw a Nextdoor post in my email about this. People saying there were reports of a fire, and someone saying it was a false alarm - just a train smoking.

[old goat]

If you like blues at all, Roy Rogers at OV on Sept 2. If you don't know, not the cowboy. He's dead. The guy who used to play with John Lee Hooker. Excellent slide player. Free. (True story--blues Roy Rogers was named after cowboy Roy Rogers.)

[Truckee Joe]

Tahoe firing rt now. This rain is turning the land to gold. Summers almost as good as winters.
Bring on the ski movie trailers and don't forget to post locations for all Ski films that are showing locally.
I hope this forum has a little more stoke to give.

[old goat]

A piece in the NYT about the June boating tragedy on Tahoe, with pics and video of the conditions that day. Free link if you sign in to get it I believe/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/08/27/weather/lake-tahoe-storm.html?unlocked_article_code=1.h08.bJHW.VTwv0B NIuqy0&smid=url-share

[El Chupacabra]

Q for North Tahoe people: what's the trailhead access like in Carnelian Heights, to get to the TRT? Looking online and a. Google maps satellite images, it looks like there is access at the end of Fulton Crescent Dr, out onto a paved path (Dollar Creek multi use trail).

Can I drive out onto the forest service roads at the end of Fulton Crescent?

Mrs C wants to hike a section of the TRT from near Watson Lake, down to Tahoe City, and I'll bike it (we'll leave her a car at Tahoe City to drive herself home later). From Fulton Crescent, it looks like there's around 1.5-2 mi of connector trail that can be used to tie into the TRT.

[mcski]

Are you talking about the paved path? There are a couple of ways for where you are to get up to TRT. I’d say take the path to the XC center and then head up to lakeview trail. That will connect you both to the TRT and to Watson. But going to Watson would involve some backtracking to get back to the TRT unless you take the fiberboard from the far side of Watson to circle back to the trail. When will you be up there?

From Fulton Crescent I think you can drive onto 109 which will take you up to the fibreboard in a round about way