13/14 Tahoe Thread -- Raddest Thread On The Internets!!!

[gone2alpine]

My guess is late...

[lph]

Is that 6" of the lighter variety of snow? got an inch here at the house in south lake, seems to little to late for these parts, debating if its worthwhile to head over there this morning.

If you watch the time lapse of the 'snow stake' measuring device, you can see it turn to rain sunday evening and then start snowing again. looks to be the lighter stuff during the night, but i am not sure that is enough to make this that much fun. At 6500 in meyers we got 1/16" of lighter snow. the only snow we have gotten in 3 days. :-(

[Arcsim]

You guys think Summit chair at Alpine will open this morning? Listed as scheduled but it sounds like that's not too reliable...

Trying to decide Squaw or Alpine too. There were tons of slides even down at roundhouse yesterday so they might still have quite a bit of control work still to do on summit. That would be more fun than just Shirley at Squaw though - need something really steep with how heavy this snow is.

[hootananney]

I'm hearing more avy bombs from alpine on the west shore this morning than the past few days. Like dozens.

[TahoeJ]

Squaw app is showing upper mountain on the schedule at 1pm. No time listed for Summit, just scheduled. Thinking Alpine might be the call for this morning.

[old goat]

squaw conditions report was down on the website--sno-phone said late opening upper mtn but just shirley and Gold coast

[TahoeBC]

If you watch the time lapse of the 'snow stake' measuring device, you can see it turn to rain sunday evening and then start snowing again. looks to be the lighter stuff during the night, but i am not sure that is enough to make this that much fun. At 6500 in meyers we got 1/16" of lighter snow. the only snow we have gotten in 3 days. :-(

I've got the next couple days scheduled off, but this storms been so mentally exhausting I've having a hard time motivating to head out anywhere.

[Dhelihiker]

Let me put this into scientific terms that everyone will hopefully understand.

Tahoe finally got a pounding, its that heavy stick to everything and cover up rocks shit we needed. We can walk around the mountains!!!!! The Spur had 8' tall banks!!!

That and a personal wumping world record yesterday OMG spooky!

[Loren]

in line at summit chair looks like its a go

[LongShortLong]

Chair 5 was fun yesterday. Massive line when it opened, though. And boy was it soggy. After a night in front of the heater my gloves are still damp.

The cement was soft and deep enough for confidence in the trees.

[StormDay]

1st chair off roundhouse was pretty fun. 3" good new snow over a supportive layer. Up top skied deeper. Lots of debris under high yellow and it looks like it rained before snowing 4-5".

It is crowded and roundhouse is down.

It is warm and the sun is out.

Got 3 great laps in.

[truckee_splitter]

This what it looks like when you let 100 people down a fresh run with two feet of Sierra cement

[LightRanger]

Keyhole and High Yellow may or may not have been pretty good.

Summit line was noticeably thinner by 11:30. Heavy got heavier, got slushy. Good workout.

[Ottime]

Is that 6" of the lighter variety of snow? got an inch here at the house in south lake, seems to little to late for these parts, debating if its worthwhile to head over there this morning.

Sorry for the late reply. Had to put chains on the Subie to get it down te street and the family back home.

6" was closer to a foot in the road. If you mean lighter, as in lighter than yesterday, then sure. Slightly. It still makes a damn good snow ball. But I think you know that.

Stoked on the cement. I'll be back in 2-3 weeks. So we just need a topping refresher for my next visit.

[lepistoir]

Got to give props to Unofficial Alpine for excellent on-the-ground reports of the dump by mother nature on the mountains and the dump by Squaw on Alpine over the weekend. Obviously they need to fire some underlings who are making the management look like idiots

[Arcsim]

Alpine was great this morning. Got in line for summit at 8:45 and had an amazing first run when it opened at 9:30. Some serious slide debris around but the lighter snow overnight on top of the concrete made for some nice turns. I saw a cat track to the top of Scott so it looks like they might be opening that stuff pretty soon!

Any reports on what the Squaw upper mountain was like? I assume they'll get granite going this week at some point.

[TahoeBC]

Started with a skin this morning, forgot my poles and was just gonna head over and rent some to hit up the wood, but Powdork insisted I take his as he had a better part of a season skinning and skiing without them with a hurt wrist, for that privilege I got to break trail

Snow seemed to consolidate a bit and skied better than yesterday, then headed over to ride some lifts. I wasn't feeling so hot, been trying to shake a cough for a couple weeks, HutchSki and Powdork headed off to skin something else after a couple of Kirkwood laps and I called it.

Nice to see the mountains covered with snow again.



Nacho is always ready to go first



HutchSki flying

[jahoney]

I assume they'll get granite going this week at some point.

Came to ask this question, I'm hoping they wait till Thursday when I'll be there!

[Dhelihiker]

This what it looks like when you let 100 people down a fresh run with two feet of Sierra cement

That is awesome!

[Huck Pitueee]

This what it looks like when you let 100 people down a fresh run with two feet of Sierra cement

Half the people are stuck or laying down. Too funny!

[gone2alpine]

Got to give props to Unofficial Alpine for excellent on-the-ground reports of the dump by mother nature on the mountains and the dump by Squaw on Alpine over the weekend. Obviously they need to fire some underlings who are making the management look like idiots

Thanks man. Many, many, many readers this weekend...many shares. People should speak up...

[Jim S]

Rose was relatively excellent with a whole lot of coverage this morning and the untracked goods were plentiful. After the first initial lift line there were no lines and we pretty much skied right up to the chair each time.
Once it got tracked out the chopped up cement was a lot of work and pounded the knees.
It got quite warm on Slide side and by noon the parking lot was slush and the Slide mountain slopes were as expected. Some big natural slides on Gold Coast and Climax/ left of slide lift left a lot of obstacles.

Squaw apparently will pop Sibo on Tuesday (tomorrow) but I assume it got tracked out today from folks hiking over from Gold Coast.

Glad nobody got hurt in the b/c. I'm biding my time and will hit it up this week.

[jahroy]

the slush on red dog this afternoon was dynamite.

red dog face almost felt like 3rd alternate on a corn day.

best squaw laps of the year for this buffoon!

[old goat]

Got to give props to Unofficial Alpine for excellent on-the-ground reports of the dump by mother nature on the mountains and the dump by Squaw on Alpine over the weekend. Obviously they need to fire some underlings who are making the management look like idiots

Unofficial Alpine is the only way to find out what is going on unless you know somebody. Too bad unofficial squaw is so lame.

[LightRanger]

Unofficial Alpine is the only way to find out what is going on unless you know somebody. Too bad unofficial squaw is so lame.

Thirded on the UA reportage.

Here's a handful of photos from Upper Saddle taken late this morning. Didn't really take any action shots as we were on a schedule while it was still decent.