MAKE TAHOE DEEP AGAIN ~ 2016/17 OFISHUL SNOW/FOOD/WHINE & STOKE THREAD

[teledad]

Damn this is totally off topic but I hope this forecast is way wrong, on the ambitious side, not on the conservative side.
Yose Valley Merced River forecasted at 23'!!! Just inches shy of 1997!!!
http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydro...=pohc1&wfo=hnx

Forecast down to 15.5' now - still would be the most since 1997 (and enough to flood much of the valley floor). Daughter is supposed to take a school trip there in a few weeks, hope they're open.

[SchralphMacchio]

Forecast down to 15.5' now - still would be the most since 1997 (and enough to flood much of the valley floor). Daughter is supposed to take a school trip there in a few weeks, hope they're open.

I know. I'm checking every few hours because I'm supposed to get married there in April, hah! In 1997 they were closed for 2+ months after the flood, and re-opened with minimal services until a massive ton of repair work was done. So much park employee housing and guest lodging was lost during that event. Any major flood would have devastating impacts for the rest of the year.

I'm really glad the current forecast has rain shutting off early Monday ... I keep hoping for a shift in pressure, air temps, or something that will keep driving the QPF & flood stage forecast down.

Also that means I might be able to go skiing this weekend without getting trapped on Sunday

[TWINS]

I imagine things ought to be pretty exciting at the Confluence ... never been there during a storm so I have no idea how safe/dangerous it would be to watch for trees and detritus blasting down the river ...
http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydro...sto&gage=mfac1

We were on the bridge during the last flood New Years Day 2005? Before I went digital as I have no pictures on my computer. Go experience it. The water was close to the top of the arch. 60 foot long burned out tree trucks running the rapids. The bridge was swaying like crazy. We have friends in Cool and spent the holidays with them.Still remember it like it was yesterday.

[Dantheman]

The QPF for the Sierras/Lassen/Shasta is absolutely mental. I've never seen anything like it. The 1997 floods wreaked havoc around my hometown (Trinity Co.), so this may get interesting. My mom fly's out today to visit us for four days. Fingers crossed that the roads and bridges are still intact when she tries to get home on Tuesday.

[BGnight]

Did 1 lap on Red Dog and reinjured my back worse than before (on IR until post AR event). Snow was amazing but super scary upside down. Be VERY conservative in the backcountry. Have fun tomorrow!

About the AR event. My non scientific opinion is that it could never be close to '97 just for the simple fact that we had 3x's more snow (at least) down low before that AR event than this one. I vividly remember 5-6' berms at my house on Donner Lake. In a few days 100% of the snow was gone.

[pipedream]

I guess this is what it looks like when everything at Squaw is delayed and everyone heads to Alpine? What a fucking line...

[NorCalNomad]

Skied Diamond Peak this morning and found dense, slow snow. It never rained, but we were soaked after 90 minutes.

Shoveling and snowblowing has become a Sisyphean task. I'm glad I invested in a Honda a few years ago.

I've lost track of how much snow I've cleared, but it's deeper than a fifth grader:
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Watch that hang fire!

Nah that looks bomber, I'd throw a screw and some ice tools into it.

[mcski]

Maybe part of their plan to rename summit KTeast?

[Tahoe tim]

Did 1 lap on Red Dog and reinjured my back worse than before (on IR until post AR event). Snow was amazing but super scary upside down. Be VERY conservative in the backcountry. Have fun tomorrow!

About the AR event. My non scientific opinion is that it could never be close to '97 just for the simple fact that we had 3x's more snow (at least) down low before that AR event than this one. I vividly remember 5-6' berms at my house on Donner Lake. In a few days 100% of the snow was gone.

Exactly. We had 3-4 feet in Prosser.

[TahoeJ]

Protect Our Winters totally ripped us off...

[hercule33]

Heavy upside down powder at Northstar. Winds must have been nuts because there was even wind effected snow in the trees at the top. Being Northstar there were plenty of freshies. I skied heavy powder until my out of shape body gave out.

[stanmarsh]

PSA: throwing snowballs at the liftie bc you're mad he can't open the Funi yet makes you a bad guy

[pipedream]

Well these are certainly some "interesting" control results - looks like Patrol almost took out Squaw One bombing the Headwall:
https://www.facebook.com/javiravest/...4055016691073/

[powdork]

Did 1 lap on Red Dog and reinjured my back worse than before (on IR until post AR event). Snow was amazing but super scary upside down. Be VERY conservative in the backcountry. Have fun tomorrow!

About the AR event. My non scientific opinion is that it could never be close to '97 just for the simple fact that we had 3x's more snow (at least) down low before that AR event than this one. I vividly remember 5-6' berms at my house on Donner Lake. In a few days 100% of the snow was gone.

I lived at the top of kingsbury at the time and there was so much snow and it was so light i could jump in and be standing tall with my head submerged. Then came the rains

[AKbruin]

It looks like there was a skier-caused avy on Fireplug today. (I'm guessing it was Fireplug by the location of the photo.) I wouldn't have skied it in these conditions, but be safe out there, folks.

Heal up, BG!

The massive icicle on my house is an annual feature. It can get gnarly but it's pretty safe. I just noticed, however, that I somehow neglected to board up the laundry room window, which could be trouble if the Sunday predictions are accurate.

[FormerKnuckleDragger]

PSA: throwing snowballs at the liftie bc you're mad he can't open the Funi yet makes you a bad guy

But it's still cool to bombard the jackasses who ride Silverado in ones and twos on powder days with long lift lines, right?

[stanmarsh]

But it's still cool to bombard the jackasses who ride Silverado in ones and twos on powder days with long lift lines, right?

Yeah that's still cool.

[4matic]

Heavenry

[El Chupacabra]

Rose was fun. Didn't ski like 3-4' of fresh -- heavy snow, but mostly not wind-affected, except for some windlips & drifts on the main side.

Mini-review: finally skied my DPS Spoons today: 150mm under foot is probably too much ski in most conditions. But overkill is fun sometimes!

... and my apologies if you were any of the people in the lift line who I slid into, as I realized suddenly that skidding a Spoon sideways on groomed/scraped snow doesn't slow you down much at all.

[spnce]

https://twitter.com/WashoeSheriff/st...19124778192896

All parties involved with the avalanche at the Mt Rose summit have been located and are ok.

another slide in the rose backcountry?

[FormerKnuckleDragger]

Mini-review: finally skied my DPS Spoons today: 150mm under foot is probably too much ski in most conditions. But overkill is fun sometimes!

I never thought there'd be a ski much bigger than Kuros. And having skied Kuros, never thought there'd be conditions that required more than 130 under foot. But today I learned...

[skier666]

Well...I can't make it out today or tomorrow and it looks the kids JETS session at Kirkwood will be a washout on Sunday...so here's a vid from a few days before Xmas at Kirkwood, haha.

[SchralphMacchio]

^ forget the JETS session, the friggin road at the Spur or Silver Lake could be a washout on Sunday!!!

"Storm QPF Saturday through Monday ranges from ... 7 to 14 inches for the Western Plumas mountains and Sierra Nevada."

[Tahoe tim]

[QUOTE=AKbruin;4898352]It looks like there was a skier-caused avy on Fireplug today. (I'm guessing it was Fireplug by the location of the photo.) I wouldn't have skied it in these conditions, but be safe out there, folks.

Heal up, BG!

Yeah, no kidding. That NE face slides a lot! Maybe they were skinning back and got a little to high. The middle North Face would've been $$$ today.
From the news:
One male and female skier were skiing in the backcountry when an avalanche was triggered just before 12:15 p.m.
A spokesman with Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe told News 4-Fox 11 that the two victims were able to hike to the highway without assistance and that they didn't suffer major injuries.

[powpig]

Well these are certainly some "interesting" control results - looks like Patrol almost took out Squaw One bombing the Headwall:
https://www.facebook.com/javiravest/...4055016691073/

Wouldn't be the first time.