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

[mmmm...pow!]

Now $35 might get you a decent lunch and a beer.

[reid]

ready to slay some lift lines at the wood!

rolling in at 1am, never seen so many cars parked on the street at the various houses. gonna be busy.

[old goat]

Now $35 might get you a decent lunch and a beer.

We were playing golf at Squaw Creek a couple of years ago and made the mistake of trying to buy hot dogs at the poolside bar. $72 for 4 plain hot dogs on stale rolls, with no sides or drinks, that took 30 minutes to arrive. We complained enough to get the price knocked down to $36. Obviously resort food is always overpriced but I challenge anyone to come up with a worse example.

[TahoeJ]

Some backcountry meadow skipping in the trees yesterday... pretty sure this won't be confused with one of Casey's videos, but it's better than complaining about shitty ski resort management.

[splat]

Is this the rocky-topped Silver Peak out by the gate on hiway 4, Jay?

[TahoeJ]

Is this the rocky-topped Silver Peak out by the gate on hiway 4, Jay?

No, not on Ebbett's pass, just the one you can see across the way from the upper mountain at Squaw.

[SchralphMacchio]

Just found out that Ivan closed Fasta Pasta for medical reasons? I hope he's alright.

[bodywhomper]

Is this ivano, Italian restaurant owner/chef of many years in South Lake Tahoe?

[SchralphMacchio]

Yes

[South tahoe skier]

Kirkwood Spring Jammin'...the good ol' days...

For a while, even before Vail, they would go through end of April, then do weekends until Memorial Day. Late in the year, mid-week is QUIET. In the big year of 94/95 I remember skiing Heart Chute on Memorial Day...no air...more like Heart Couloir. :-) That same year Squaw ran Shirley until like July 17th and Mammoth was open into August.

They need to make a reason for people to show up. You know, like a Nickelback concert or something. I'm sure they could run the Wall well into June even on drought years...then download people on 11 (maybe). I'm sure they could farm snow to get you down Buckboard.

That sounds like it would be really profitable. Please buy a resort, price a season pass for 300$, open your entire terrain on big powder days by 9 and let me ski at it until July with no one else there. I really think you would get filthy rich.

[South tahoe skier]

Seriously, resorts are in a business to make money. I hate it as much as any one on here when a resort closes down in early April. But look around the lift lines in late March. There is no one in them. It's gotten warm in the valley and people there are thinking of wake boarding etc. Your 500 dollar pass does not entitle you to lift served turns in August.

Enjoy each winter for what it is and while it is here. Get a 100+ days on your pass, and take the slow quad if you need more. I appreciate what the resorts provide for me at the price that I pay. Every pass in the basin is relatively cheap and provides a good value if you are skiing every day. If you need more, you need to adjust your lifestyle, not bitch about resorts not being open for 50 "locals" on a weekend in May.

[LongShortLong]

*** You don't like skiing. Go back to epicski.

Alpine's drawn good crowds through late May. The Ranch pulled a good crowd in July a few years back.

[liv2ski]

If the resort is not open, at least let us hike for a few turns on National Park property is all I ask

[gnarbro365]

If the resort is not open, at least let us hike for a few turns on National Park property is all I ask

Hmm...didn't know Badger Pass was such a coveted spring/summer time skin.

[thudder]

Seriously, resorts are in a business to make money. I hate it as much as any one on here when a resort closes down in early April. But look around the lift lines in late March. There is no one in them. It's gotten warm in the valley and people there are thinking of wake boarding etc. Your 500 dollar pass does not entitle you to lift served turns in August.

Enjoy each winter for what it is and while it is here. Get a 100+ days on your pass, and take the slow quad if you need more. I appreciate what the resorts provide for me at the price that I pay. Every pass in the basin is relatively cheap and provides a good value if you are skiing every day. If you need more, you need to adjust your lifestyle, not bitch about resorts not being open for 50 "locals" on a weekend in May.

Fuck off.

[SchralphMacchio]

Who puts a skinner across the middle of the gut of Hollywood? Terrible aesthetics aside ... good opportunity for improved terrain management.

[spnce]

apparently silverado is closed to keep it pristine for a warren miller flick.

[4matic]

apparently silverado is closed to keep it pristine for a warren miller flick.

What's the guess on cost if that is true? $200k?

[mmmm...pow!]

Squaw would never do that. Their facebook rant said so.

[4matic]

Jonny Moseley is Squaw ambassador and WM narrator.

[smallies]

I add Progresso tomato soup to the vermicelli and it's better! Couple globs of Classico.

[old goat]

Seriously, resorts are in a business to make money. I hate it as much as any one on here when a resort closes down in early April. But look around the lift lines in late March. There is no one in them. It's gotten warm in the valley and people there are thinking of wake boarding etc. Your 500 dollar pass does not entitle you to lift served turns in August.

Enjoy each winter for what it is and while it is here. Get a 100+ days on your pass, and take the slow quad if you need more. I appreciate what the resorts provide for me at the price that I pay. Every pass in the basin is relatively cheap and provides a good value if you are skiing every day. If you need more, you need to adjust your lifestyle, not bitch about resorts not being open for 50 "locals" on a weekend in May.

Wakeboarding? You incredible dick. (Nothing wrong with wakeboarding but assuming that's how most of the people around here spend their springs and summers displays a staggering degree of cluelessness.)

apparently silverado is closed to keep it pristine for a warren miller flick.

Hmmm. I wonder if the flick will point out that this terrain is usually closed due to a) no snow, b) too much snow c) so KSL can spend our pass money on lawyers, PR flacks, and bribing politicians.

Seems like Squaw's letter and the growing dissatisfaction of the local skiing community should find their way to the skiing publications, if anyone here has the connections to get that done.

[gimpy]

what stskier says is true,.....cept the wake boarding part
all you lift dependent complainers need to buy some touring gear and take advantage of the best spring skiing in the world (or so I'm told) in one of the most beautiful places on earth on your own private mountain

still quality settled pow on shaded north but every other aspect has gone south

[snapt]

Remember in Late May 2011 when we had a few late big powder days on top of that giant base and Squaw was rad and sold cheap day tix and opened back up? Those were the days.

[Shred Baron]

Remember in Late May 2011 when we had a few late big powder days on top of that giant base and Squaw was rad and sold cheap day tix and opened back up? Those were the days.

KSL's first year as owners at squaw. Not that I entirely expect them to do it every year they can.

Rose knob was alright today. The sun has started to cook the snow pretty hard. Roller balls about a foot by noon, and below 7500 ft. Was pretty grabby. A really nice day with hardly a soul around.