Lake Tahoe 2015/16 - Year of Godzilla Baby Jesus

[skier666]

There's a little Long Board Day heritage article in the new Powder Mag...

In other news if anyone is slaying Northstar the next few days and wants to grab a beer LMK...I'll be in the family ski zone imagining skiing Chair 6, KT or Scott Chair

[TahoeBC]

Yesterday surprising brought the deepest turns of the year

[powdork]

Awesome sleeper day yesterday. 4" in the driveway, barely anything on the useless snowstake at the wood, and 15"+ in many spots on powderhouse
Yodadog is impressed


TahoeBC is also impressed


Right up until he isn't


So much so he decides to dig a hasty head pit


Then we skied pow

[Gepeto]

ooop
Fumm
Go Yodadog

[shakyknees]

Doh!

looks like I need some remedial education:

1. never get off the boat
2. never forget the 1st rule of fight club
3. ALWAYS GO SKIING

(even if there's only 3" in the driveway).

[SchralphMacchio]

The last 2 days have been spectacular for human powered skiing on the west and south shores!

Wind, snow, and transport picked up around 1pm. With the strong winds and upside down forecast, the next few days might not ski as well as today did. Wowsa.

py phone pics:

[mcski]

Those tree shots are the best

[emcee]

nice shots powdork,

I didn't even know it was a powder day until my lady decided at 5am that the pillow she wanted in the car for the drive was the one under my head.

I'm out for the next two weeks resting a knee injury from windsurfing (....of all the ways to get hurt)

[StormDay]

I'll be in the family ski zone imagining skiing Chair 6, KT or Scott Chair

Scott skied very well today. The wind was doing magically things. Maybe the best run I have had down Gentian proper in 6-7 years.

(note: lower 40 was getting scoured and exit is a bit thin)

[whatsupdoc]

Yeah great weekend

[Ottime]

Amazing weekend. i never left the resort, as it has been a bell to bell family time weekend. More great runs today including untracked off 10 at 2:45. Okay, maybe t was recycled, wind blown deposits, but it skied great. Landings have been so money the past two days. More tomorrow morning, then a break until the 26th, when I get three or four days to do whatever I want. Hope the touring is good.

[SkiCougar]

DEC 20 2015 … GREATER LAKE TAHOE AREA – INCLUDING SOUTH LAKE TAHOE…TRUCKEE… INCLINE VILLAGE

WINTER STORM WARNING FROM 10 AM MONDAY TO 10 AM TUESDAY…

SNOW ACCUMULATIONS: 18-36 INCHES ABOVE 7000 FEET. TOTALS WILL VARY WIDELY BELOW 7000 FEET.
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/rev/

[TahoeJ]

I wasn't going to go up this week. I was fine with it. Sure, it was going to snow and that would set things up great for January. But Tuesday / Wednesday looks too good to pass up...

[TEXASS]

You Guys are killing Me. Stuck in Tijuana till Jan 1 Keep the Slaying Going. Glad to have great snow!!!!!!

[SchralphMacchio]

Tuesday / Wednesday looks too good to pass up...

If you're gonna ski Tuesday ... Bring the powder cords, your most rockered boards and detune your binding pressure!

Could be 2' of upside down wind loaded knee-severing mashed potatoes ... Not to mention huge piles of concrete debris in the runouts.

If I only had two days to pick, seems like Thursday/Friday would be much friendlier conditions. I haven't seen a wind forecast for Thursday's storm yet though ... Need to bring 213 out of retirement!

[GBB]

KW was so very nice today. No one around and Freshies all day. Might have had my best run off Vista ever. Good stuff. Snowed till past 5.

Truth. Kirkwood got a lot of snow. I went to the well once to many in saddle. Need a tune now. Worth it.

I must say, I picked a pretty good day for my first foray into Kirkwood's offerings.

[bodywhomper]

People should be scared of this week and hunker down in their condos!!

[powdork]

Does anyone at Kirkwood even look at their snowstake?

[old goat]

This one is warm so far--snowing but not accumulating at 6000. Waiting to see if anything opens with the wind.

[SchralphMacchio]

[TahoeJ]

This one is warm so far--snowing but not accumulating at 6000. Waiting to see if anything opens with the wind.

Squaw cancelled teams today... so you know what that usually means.

Schralph - I agree that Wed is a much safer bet than tomorrow. Thursday probably too.

[shakyknees]

rain here in South Lake for at least 2 hours this morning, some flakes showing up now at 9 am.

[emcee]

Right now the snow stake cam isn't even showing on the website. It must have been easier to take it down than to fix it.

[gimpy]

Snowing at 7,700' all morning and blowing sideways

While the skiing has been phenomenal so far this season, I recently got some bad news concerning a legendary local member of the bc community around here. If you have spent any amount of time in the backcountry around Tahoe, the eastern Sierra, and Shasta, then there is a good chance you may have come across Ed. If you have come across Ed, you would prolly remember it as you don't normally meet an african american pushing 80 years old on the skin track. Always smiling, sharing beta, and charging, Ed has always been an inspiration to me and many others always thinking to ourselves how rad it would/will be to be getting after it as hard as Ed does in his 70's. This year, while we are being blessed with snow, we will probably not be blessed with eds company at the trailhead and on the uptrack as he is currently battling leukemia. He may not post here but I know he does lurk from time to time so I wanted to take this opportunity to conjure up as much positive energy vibrations from us all to send out to a real local backcountry legend.
Keep on shining ed++++++++

[AKbruin]

Snowing at 7,700' all morning and blowing sideways

While the skiing has been phenomenal so far this season, I recently got some bad news concerning a legendary local member of the bc community around here. If you have spent any amount of time in the backcountry around Tahoe, the eastern Sierra, and Shasta, then there is a good chance you may have come across Ed. If you have come across Ed, you would prolly remember it as you don't normally meet an african american pushing 80 years old on the skin track. Always smiling, sharing beta, and charging, Ed has always been an inspiration to me and many others always thinking to ourselves how rad it would/will be to be getting after it as hard as Ed does in his 70's. This year, while we are being blessed with snow, we will probably not be blessed with eds company at the trailhead and on the uptrack as he is currently battling leukemia. He may not post here but I know he does lurk from time to time so I wanted to take this opportunity to conjure up as much positive energy vibrations from us all to send out to a real local backcountry legend.
Keep on shining ed++++++++

Oh no! Ed is my hero! The guy is a stud and a local legend for sure. I hope he beats his illness and recovers quickly.