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

[fogey]

^ TBC's and the RLP crater bowl slab are up on the obs list ...

Thanks to all of Monday's avy reporters. It looks like 10-11 a.m. was the witching hour.

[TahoeBC]

Yea Gimpy pretty good snow in the middle, we debated waiting just up the middle till you guys dropped to get the main one, then I said fuck it I'm going up the middle. Kinda thought you were the one leading the boot pack up based on your pack and having seen your truck in the parking area.

Shot of your crew heading up


Debated sharing this here or not, but figured if it scares someone to be a little more cautious out there why not.

[powdork]

now that you've seen the vid go back and get your pole.

[MagnificentUnicorn]

Yea Gimpy pretty good snow in the middle, we debated waiting just up the middle till you guys dropped to get the main one, then I said fuck it I'm going up the middle. Kinda thought you were the one leading the boot pack up based on your pack and having seen your truck in the parking area.

Debated sharing this here or not, but figured if it scares someone to be a little more cautious out there why not.

Shit, lucky there weren't more trees or rocks/cliffs and that the runout was good. That's a horrible feeling to be caught like that.

[TahoeJ]

Interesting to see the fracture / trigger point right below the exposed rock. Glad you're all right.

[powdork]

Thanks to the most excellent guiding and general info provided by AKbruin we had two really fun days of skiing. Yesterday on Tallac we fell off the special skin track and showed off our colourful outfits. Today we did something on Echo, which I'm sure has a name and AKbruin probably even told us what it is, but I can't remember. Saw zero other people. Enjoyed encounters with exotic (to us) wildlife. Only got lost very briefly trying to find the car at the end of the day.

Glad everyone who had slab issues is okay, that gopro screenshot posted above is spooky.

AKbruin cruising yesterday
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Echo today
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on the way out of town i saw some crazy debris/tracks coming out of the woods on the se face of echo. did you guys see that? looked like an entire jeffery pine rolled down the face. it would have been on the other side of the rocky ridge way off to the skiers right in the bottom pic.

[gimpy]

Ahhhh the old find yer car from echo game. The trick is to head towards trimmer/freel and then looks for the snow covered hump off Wintoon.

Stoked there were no injuries yesterday+++

[rod9301]

Interesting to see the fracture / trigger point right below the exposed rock. Glad you're all right.

Exactly what i thought.

[fogey]

on the way out of town i saw some crazy debris/tracks coming out of the woods on the se face of echo. did you guys see that? looked like an entire jeffery pine rolled down the face. it would have been on the other side of the rocky ridge way off to the skiers right in the bottom pic.

There were two snowmobilers relentlessly lapping the lower face of Echo (mostly up and down the fire area) for a couple of hours yesterday--maybe they wandered up and over there?

[Wobby]

Squaw has still been pretty good lately! I'm really starting to believe that they might be open on the 4th of July.

[Mr. Toad]

I saw their tracks in the Angora basin today. Guessing they had something to do with that debris. On a more positive note, we're full-on back into corn mode!

[mcski]

Squaw has still been pretty good lately! I'm really starting to believe that they might be open on the 4th of July.

No palisades video from yesterday? Sad!

[pajamas]

Thx for posting tahoebc. glad you're OK. Looks like you hit the sweet spot (trigger) right by the left rock.

I was out with BCR (remember him ). We had lots of sluff running but stable snow on north facing on Sunday.

[h-atlas]

I should contribute more but haven't been out much lately, but what a great season! We're all glad TahoeBC is ok because he keeps the stoke alive! Here's a photo of him shredding on Tallac earlier this season.


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[fogey]

Stoked there were no injuries yesterday+++

Me, too--and thanks tbc for posting the video.

Ahhhh the old find yer car from echo game. The trick is to head towards trimmer/freel and then looks for the snow covered hump off Wintoon.

And if the visibility is bad and usual landmarks invisible, the Wintoon hump was the site of a water tank once upon a time--it's on a very modest height of land, running roughly east/west between two creek drainages. Head roughly east from the base of Echo and, if you start to descend noticeably to the north or south you are probably off route and should correct your course.

[TahoeJ]

Well done, except whomever took the photo sequence actually made it look *less* steep than it is. I haven't been up KT in several weeks - it's crazy how filled in Ambrosia is right now even after all of the warm stretches.

[klar]

on the way out of town i saw some crazy debris/tracks coming out of the woods on the se face of echo. did you guys see that? looked like an entire jeffery pine rolled down the face. it would have been on the other side of the rocky ridge way off to the skiers right in the bottom pic.

I don't think so, but we have no base line for crazy here, so kind of hard to say . There were a bunch of snowmobile tracks everywhere, which in itself is weird for us. Not sure something out of the ordinary would have registered. Did not see anyone riding, just the tracks. Good to hear finding the way back to Wintoon drive is not exclusively a tourist problem!

[powdork]

here's some more on monday's hijinks on round top (more pics, words and video on powdork.com)
i had quite a few more pics to post here but the overlords have changed things so that i can't link to images on my site so here's but a few
tahoebc heading up


tahoebc dropping as powcruzer looks in from above


lessons learned?


more pics, video, and words at the link below

[powdrhound]

here's some more on monday's hijinks on round top (more pics, words and video on powdork.com)
i had quite a few more pics to post here but the overlords have changed things so that i can't link to images on my site so here's but a few
tahoebc heading up
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tahoebc dropping as powcruzer looks in from above
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lessons learned?
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more pics, video, and words at the link below

No photos...

Edit. Photos are back.

[powdork]

that's weird they were there. now i see them but they could disappear again

[TurxSki]

Debated sharing this here

Woah!
Thanx for posting.
Man those slabs just exploded! Trippy.

[Wobby]

No palisades video from yesterday? Sad!

Unfortunately I didn't make it out for the 'sades. Had a test to take at UNR...sad! Only place I haven't been at Squaw yet this season.

[NakedShorts]

Although (unconfirmed) a little bird told me that AM/SV is being sold to Mammoth...

Boom ... Little Bird was correct

[TahoeJ]

Boom ... Little Bird was correct

Except backwards...

[Eastern Sierra Skier]

Except backwards...

Feel like I just got kicked in the balls. It's like your worst nightmare just became true.