10/11 Tahoe Weather, Conditions, Stoke, and What's Up Thread

[freshies]

Time I got back to my car that evening I was exhausted. I was almost damn home but fell asleep going around the traffic circle on Pioneer Trail (pointless circle in Truckee)!! I just drove right off the side, into a stand of sparse trees across from the old Forest Service offices. That shit woke me up. I hadn't taken the time to renew my registration (or license) either, and I was like oh damn, Ive got to get this back on the road and normal looking before a cop sees me in here. I started with my tracks into the trees, and ended up digging what was essentially a dirt road back out to the circle. I did all this with my little avy shovel I had with me, and I did it all in like 20 minutes before a cop came. A few non-police people came around the circle while I was furiously digging and looked at me like I was insane.

LMAO reading this. Dude, you fell asleep while IN the traffic circle? Thats awesome.

[freshies]

show of hands - when it's totally puking at night, who likes to get really high then go drive down a dark straight road with the high beams on and watch the snowflakes coming at the windshield?

we call that the millennium falcon effect

[RaccoonFace]

snow for rose? ill be there

How much, who's to say. But something is happening, and it looks like there is another something on deck (that looks like it may head north-er than us):





okbye

[LightRanger]

we call that the millennium falcon effect

I love that effect.

Watching the radar right now and there's some nice little globs of green and a few tiny tinges of yellow heading right up the 80/50 corridors.

[powdork]

down boys. looks like they're calling for the low to stay a bit further off shore which mans a bit warmer. snow levels more like above 9,000'.

[Sierra Cement]

Wow, I did not know mangos were in season in mid October.

SAT...STRONG JET STREAM BEGINS TO NOSE INTO WEST COAST ALTHOUGH IT
STILL APPEARS BEST SHOT WILL BE JUST NORTH OF THE AREA. THAT
SAID...EC AND GFS HAVE TRENDED FURTHER SOUTH. HAVE INCREASED POPS A
BIT FOR LASSEN COUNTY SAT...BUT BETTER CHANCES OF RAIN LOOK TO HOLD
OFF UNTIL SUN. ALSO...THIS STORM WILL HAVE PLENTY OF MOISTURE...A
MANGO CONNECTION STRETCHING ACROSS THE PACIFIC. AS SUCH...WE WOULD
STILL BE SOUTH OF THE JET SO SNOW LEVELS WILL BE HIGH. IF EC IS
RIGHT WITH ITS SOUTHERN MOST PLACEMENT IT COULD BE INTERESTING.
HOWEVER...STILL BELIEVE THE BRUNT OF THIS STORM WILL BE JUST TO OUR
NORTH BUT WILL STILL NEED TO BE CLOSELY WATCHED THIS WEEK. WALLMANN

[Zeppelinskier]

down boys. looks like they're calling for the low to stay a bit further off shore which mans a bit warmer. snow levels more like above 9,000'.

see you at rose
above 9k...

[Ottime]

Steady rain inSC now for the past two hours. Cool as well.

[UTaho']

It is a deluge of rain in SLC right now.

[LightRanger]

It is a deluge of rain in SLC right now.

SLC or SLT?

[powdork]

according to the radar (and his username), it could be either.

[UTaho']

OOOPS,
SLT-South Lake Tahoe. It is prolly heading to SLC though, sometimes I forget where I am. The rain let up & is now pretty steady again, but it is about 50 degrees F.

[Ottime]

50? It was 56^ in Santa Cruz yesteday when it was raining. It got oh so hopeful.

Regardless, it was very nice to get several hours of rain. It really feels like the season is changing.

[Gerome]

speaking of chains....suggestions for a Jetta (w/4 snow) and a Yukon?

more chain talk: Get spikes-spiders.com. They're expensive, but so rad if you are going skiing every weekend in the Jetta. They attach to a part you bolt onto each front wheel. They take about a minute to put on, require no laying in the snow, no reaching around a dirty wheel well and you can boogie at 35mph with no worries. They are better than any fancy snow chains, hands down.

And I think Caltrans is generally justified with their chain control decisions when I used to drive a rear wheel drive van that looses control on the slightest hills without chains.

[Zeppelinskier]

it was rocky, so i went back to bed

[thefrush]

Anyone goin' to the Light The Wick premiere in Sac on Thursday?

[Emerson Biggin's]

And I think Caltrans is generally justified with their chain control decisions when I used to drive a rear wheel drive van that looses control on the slightest hills without chains.

Jeezus, I don't miss the chain-control gestapo in Tahoe at all. I can't remember how many times they barely let me through with my Toyota 4-wheel truck coming home from work @ Kirkwood when there was only about 8" of snow on the road.
Here in Washington, you can drive a 1970 Cadillac with balloons for tires through 3 feet of snow while sippin' on a PBR and nobody gives a shit....the cops will wave you on through as long as you toss them a beer as you pass.

[tom111869]

Anyone goin' to the Light The Wick premiere in Sac on Thursday?

I'll be there. Are buying tickets at the door the only option? Online said not available last I checked.

[thefrush]

I'll be there. Are buying tickets at the door the only option? Online said not available last I checked.

Seems to be the case.

[skier666]

I'll I can add is that I have never put chains on while living in CA. Frankly, I don't even know how to put them on.

[whyturn]

I keep 13" cables in the back of my SUV at all times. But they are just for showing to smokies since my wheels are 17".... Cali is so different

[Ottime]

So, if we are still talking about chains because it did not really snow...

I have used them for years, when I rediscovered this snow sport thing a few years back. The rear wheel drive Tacoma loved having them on. Remember that Caltrans likes you to put on chains in designated areas, often before freezing levels, so you will be riding on pavement. The nice thing is you will suddenly have control over that 3" deep slush that all the AWDs are hydroplaning in.

Cables are fine. If you like to drive fast, your cable/chains will snap. Cables are easily cut off with wire cutters kept under the passenger set. Think of them as disposable after one winter of use.

Chains offer more grip, but are a PITA to repair after driving 40 mph through slush/pavement combos. And they will destroy your paint job. But, they may not snap, and are way more durable.

I keep a pair of fitted chains in my Subie, and last winter there was use for them. I was driving up 88 with about 200# of madrone in the back on a particularly bad morning. Freezing levels had been dropping and leaving a nice sheet of ice on the road. I almost did not make it up the grade at Pioneer!! Chains would have helped. Unfortunately they were in a hatch under 200# of said madrone. So I wiggled up the hill. Higher up was not as bad. I stopped at the cabin, but them almost did not make it across KW valley to the lifts.

So ice+lots of weight, even with AWD, can be helped by chains. I also have them in case I need to tow some one out of a snow bank.

[Dhelihiker]

California's chain control is the 8th wonder of the world. It puts the shit in shit show.

[El Chupacabra]

I keep 13" cables in the back of my SUV at all times. But they are just for showing to smokies since my wheels are 17".... Cali is so different

I do the same thing with a set of cables in my car (AWD, but the Caltrans checkpoints seem skeptical, so just in case.). They actually are the right size for my car, but I have no intention of using them, unless Caltrans forces me to.

I haven't been asked to show chains in the 4Runner, but I hear that the checkpoint people have gotten pickier about this. You'd think that fulltime 4WD + dedicated snow tires would be sufficient to get you past any chain control checkpoint, but as Dhelihiker puts it:

California's chain control is the 8th wonder of the world. It puts the shit in shit show.

[unpossible]

Since I can't resist contributing to the chain stoke thread…

Obviously I have been stopped at chain-control many a time, always in a AWD vehicle with M+S or snow tires. While on 80 or 50 I have always just been waved on, never even put down the window. 88 is a different story, three times last season we were asked if we had chains in our possession, we said yes and were waved on. The 88 "Chain-control Gestapo" seems far more strict in my opinion.