Is Tahoe on track to have another horrible season?

While it is understandably frustrating that you can't know what lifts will be open, nothing in this report should baffle a smart mind like your own. Also realize getting a lift open for the first time after a massive dump is a lot different than a lift going on windhold for a few hours and re opening. They have a lot of shit to do.
 
My mind can't understand it its confusing.

But anyways I called up guest services. At first they were really nice and helpful and said Wall tomorrow and backside hopefully Thurs but maybe not till the weekend. Then when the nice person I spoke with asked her coworker for more info she was probably given orders to tell people as little as possible since she said she couldn't say and everything would open by the weekend.

So obviously they want to give people as little info as they can so that they can take 5 days to open terrain after a storm if they wish. Not that the snow on the backside will get ruined before people can ski it. No, rain as well as snow melting than freezing overnight doesn't effect skiability at all. Im sure everything on the back will be fluffy and mint when they open it to the masses Sat.

 
Did you remove the logic portion of your brain? It could EASILY take 5 days to open all of that terrain after a 50+inch storm of wet, heavy snow on top of a base consisting literally entirely of faceted snow. The avy danger is through the roof right now and they don't want you skiing on it if there's a chance you could die while skiing there. What makes you think Human Resources knows when Ski Patrol is going to be able to open a ski run?
 
Get a grip. I don't want to get into this argument because it encourages ignorance with regards to snow safety but please remember the terrain they are taking 5 days to open will be skiied out within 50 minutes.

The 20 guys who get paid to be ski patrol could ski the entire mountain between them in an hour Kwood is small dude.
 
Sorry as a skier you can't even comprehend well written forecasting models. You'd figure it would be of interest to a skier, I guess not. Maybe swell forecasters should stop forecasting swells because morons like you can't read.

Bitching about snow safety makes you look like a kook. Bitching about conditions makes you a bad skier.

 
beaver and estelle bowl at alpine were $ today. lots of gnarly avy debris and an odd mixture of blower pow, ice, crust, corn, and bushes down low, but it was super fun!
 
im fuckin jealous

alpine is the shit, she's like squaw's little sister who's a bit more low key and maybe her tits aren't quite as big but when she takes off her glasses youre like damn this girl is just as smokin hot and there aren't nearly as many dudes all up on her shit all the time
 
Everything is fully filled in after this storm. I am sooo stoked to be able to rip around the whole mountain now, i dont give a flying fuck what the snow is like! I mean, dude, we were skiing rocks and ice for the first 2 months of the season up until 5 fucking days ago. 1 storm and 8 feet of sierra cement later, all the steep fun stuff is filled in and good to go.

Now we can have powder days when it snows instead of coreshot days!!!!

Fuck yeah buddies, lets start crushing it!
 
i feel like we'll get one more good dump and have a true powder weekend. then it will be good riding til they kick us off the mountains at the end of april again
 
yup. I'm pumped for the rest of the year.

Kinda funny. Boreal's pipe is filled to the brim. Gonna take a while to clean that out haha

 
once again- we can actually ski the whole mountain!!! fuck yeah!

Dude im excited to rip bumps and crud and hard flat landings. all of it.

we went from basically skiing in the midwest to being able to ski the Gnar again. You fucking park rats need to get out and explore the mountain. pretty sure you havent ripped all the new terrain an large enough asshole yet to be bored with it! get out and get stoked to ski some actual challenging terrain.

You dont need a pow day to have stupid fun day outside the park, right?
 
Dude, hauling ass on a groomer is my second favorite thing to skiing pow. So fucking stoked that the whole mountain (5 runs) isn't going to be a slow zone.
 
Have you ever skied Silverton, Highlands Bowl, Tulleride, Crested Butte, Snowmass, the East Wall at A Basin or the numerous BC lines steep enough to make you question your sanity? Don't let Keystone, Vail, and Steamboat fool you into thinking the whole state is flat. Northstar is pretty goddamn flat too my brother. I've skied the best of Tahoe and the best of Colorado and I can confidently say you're being butthurt. I love Tahoe, but you can't ski Tahoe in bounds October through July.
 
I'm aware of those places and have skied all of them except for the butt. I just highly doubt the troll was referring to them. I mean breck was voted the "snowiest place in January" and now everyone in summit is boasting about it being so fucking rad. I'm sorry, I respectfully disagree and that's why I'm making that sarcastic comment.

And yes, you can ski October through july. I did 3 years ago. Where can you ski in Colorado October through july? I guess A BASIN on big years, maybe?

Also, Gnarstar IS flat, no disagreeing there. I mean you don't see me preaching about tahoe donner being way sicker than Telluride do you?

I'll say it again, I'd much rather spend 4 decent or sub par months riding kirkwood than 6 good ones in Summit or really the San Juans. That has a lot to do with the instability of their snwopack though so maybe I'm a rarity.

Yeah, I was probably butthurt by some troll.
 
yeah, this and squaw/alpine/kirkwood are what make me love tahoe

i mostly said that guy got "told" cause of the buffalo comment and i love shit talking
 
It's all opinion. They have completely different styles of terrain and completely different snowpack. Maritime vs Continental snowpack. Plus, I don't know how you can call Colorado having an invisible snowpack when Tahoe has barely had one the past few years.
 
*instability...to be unstable...to be very, very prone to avalanches.

not invisible.

And there is no argueing about how much safer the BC is with a maritime snowpack- meaning we can ski that super sick/steep gnar all season round these parts, while with a continental snowpack you only get a green light on a select few days, or maybe not all season if you have a shitty october storm.

fuck it though. im excited to get out and jump off stuff with other people stoked that tahoe turned back into tahoe.
 
where you headed?

mmore than likely spring conditions- icy in the morning, corned feom 1030 to 130, then slush/mashed potatoes/peanut butter after that.
 
Hiked palisades and Granite Chief today.

Honestly, far better than you'd expect. Snow on the chief was in prime May softness.
 
I dont know about anyone else, but i fucking crushed it at Kirkwood saturday. Pole whacking for reasons other than GNAR, Double ejections to tomahawks to popping up smilling and covered in snow. Great, great times were had.

I sent some legit big lines everywhere from thunder saddle to wagon wheel bowl, to Palisades. Wet snow, but smooth again.

And now i hear its gonna rain up to 10k. welp, it was nice while it lasted.
 
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