OFFICIAL TAHOE 18/19 STOKE, CONDITIONS, WEATHER THREAD

[xtrmjoe]

Employee says Heavenly is crowded because this is ski week. Don't know what that means.

Ski week means, Truckee/marin/Mendocino etc school districts close down. Groms everywhere! Just like spring break but for skier families.

Hence me staying home this midweek to ride mtb. Then resuming midweek pow hunting next week, tue looks sweet if BA is accurate.

[Hey Diddle Diddle]

Riding up sky. Pellet snow and getting socked in.

[bullhorn]

Yeah... this is definitely a thing. Did outer outer a few weeks ago and as we’re getting onto the road, a couple of guys pop out of the woods and ask where that road goes. Blew me away that somebody would follow tracks blindly.

Several years ago i was skiing spring corn off the back side of heavenly. Snow/dirt line was about 7500K feet. When I stopped to put on my skins and a guy comes up to me asking how to get to the lift. I told him it was uphill to Mott chair or several miles hiking down the dirt road to Minden. I'm guessing the walk out took him most of the day as well as ruined his ski boots.

[stoneman]

Yesterday morning I was hitchhiking on 207 heading back to the ski area. An older woman in a pickup truck with Nevada tags going the opposite direction slowed and began yelling that “people like me” skiing out of the resort were the reason the person had gone missing at Heavenly. I engaged her that the search was taking place in the ski area. She then yelled the same thing at me again before gunning off in a black cloud of diesel smoke. I guess this is the “sucker track” argument that if you ski it someone who shouldn’t will follow your tracks and this will be your fault.

sounds like she just needed an excuse to give you a "rollin coal" salute. It's a Douglas County specialty

[bodywhomper]

Ski week means, Truckee/marin/Mendocino etc school districts close down. Groms everywhere! Just like spring break but for skier families.

Hence me staying home this midweek to ride mtb. Then resuming midweek pow hunting next week, tue looks sweet if BA is accurate.

Found out yesterday that it also include districts on the peninsula and SF. That considered, sugarbowl was not very crowded.

[duffski]

Ski week article on sfgate: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/artic...A-12638966.php

Heav won't be bad midweek, lifts open 8:30 so if you want a nice parking spot get up there before 7:30 for stagecoach, 8 for the other lots. Ski the top (sky, dipper, comet) in the morning then head lower once those lifts become a cluster.

Overheard so many beaters on the lifts and in town talking up doing the minden mile lately, it'll end badly for somebody if it hasn't already.

[grubbers]

Looking for knee doc recommendations in the Tahoe area. I'm in Tahoe City, but don't mind heading a little further out for better and hopefully cheaper care.

[duffski]

Looking for knee doc recommendations in the Tahoe area. I'm in Tahoe City, but don't mind heading a little further out for better and hopefully cheaper care.

Dr. Orr at Barton in South Lake is probably one of the best anywhere in the USA but it won't be cheap.

[TahoeBC]

South Lake is down a Orthopedic surgeon since Banner passed away. Getting a Appt might be a bit slow for Orr.

Jeff Cummings in Carson Valley is very good, fixed up my girlfriends knee last season and will be doing mine next week.

[powdork]

Wasn’t that Monday? Curious about yesterday. Monday was a holiday; only some kids out of school this week. Mine is supposed to be in school.

they were closed tuesday morning while they searched for the missing older guy. they found him and then opened after getting him out of there .

[wolfy]

Grubbers
6 or 7 knee repairs combi in the family, my picks would be:
1. Dr Shonnard in south Reno.
2. Dr Dodd in Truckee if you want to stay closer to home.
They both do a shitload of knee repair. Good luck with it.

[powdrhound]

Snowing well at the Wood.

[LightRanger]

Grubbers
6 or 7 knee repairs combi in the family, my picks would be:
1. Dr Shonnard in south Reno.
2. Dr Dodd in Truckee if you want to stay closer to home.
They both do a shitload of knee repair. Good luck with it.

Dodd did a good job with my complicated tib-fib/medial malleolus fracture years ago.

[SP_7]

Squaw lured a lot of people to the mountain this morning. Guy in front of me in line for Funitel bailed when he found out no Palisades, no Granite Peak and no Silvie. He was 4th in line at the time. I ended up doing some runs off Headwall and found some great snow still and then Red Dog Ridge (from both KT and Red Dog lift) as well as Squaw Creek. Lots of pow still out there.

#Me too
Same old, same old...

[Mr. Toad]

Where is everybody? I drove out to carson pass for a tour and the usual BC parking pull-outs were mostly empty. Finished out the day at Mott canyon with no lines and secret pow stashes still all intact. I just wished I had more leg left.

[tahoearmada]

mr toad: carson pass was closed off and on all day so youre one of the lucky ones that got thru

[Wobby]

Showed up around 10 thinking it might be sunny. Then it proceeded to nuke all day...maybe 6-8 inches of blower on the hill by the time I left. Haven't had a day without at least a little snow in over a week. Craziness!

[gimpy]

I say that every time I’m out there toad. Hah!


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[gimpy]

Lifting my head, looking for danger signs





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[Ottime]

The wood was good. Had two plans fall through. No matter. Just skied fresh lines all day inbounds. Holy refresh.

Trying to convince friends to drive out to KW tomorrow instead of staying in town. I know where I’m going.

[dookeyXXX]

Where is everybody?...

Been asking myself the same question the past few days.
Today at The Star I basically rode right on to every lift...no lines.
Pretty much every run I did with the 5 kids in my charge was empty, too.
Easy commute home to boot.
Hell, even 89 to Squaw (at least from Donner Pass Road to West River) this morning at 7:15 was empty. WTF?

FWIW, I skied on some 165cm 13m radius slalom skis today.
If you really want to know how good of a skier you are, then ski something like this on a semi-pow day.
They were pure ecstacy on the groomers, though.
I may take 'em out again tomorrow just to abuse myself.

[grubbers]

Got to check out some steep lines on Tuesday. Unfortunately I thought I was in the clear just below the spine and decided to let the board run, got caught off guard by the "bergshrund" and blew out the knee on impact. Shit happens.

My line was a somewhat mellower option just to the left.

[Ottime]

Fuck injuries.

No one at the wood all week. Today was especially empty.

Found a line that skied really well in Thunder Saddle today. Went back and put tracks right next to mine. No one else around.

[powdrhound]

Fuck injuries.

No one at the wood all week. Today was especially empty.

Found a line that skied really well in Thunder Saddle today. Went back and put tracks right next to mine. No one else around.

I don’t know how I haven’t ridden a chair with you sometime.

[emcee]

we're probably all skiing the same shit together all the time and just...ships in the night