California/Nevada 2022-2023 Tahoe Ski Resorts/Conditions/Meetups

[Pequenita]

More hilarity:

 

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It will be live on July 5th.

 

[Near Nyquist]

The parking reservation beta testing on July 4 weekend is going to be a mess...

Actually, I can't find that sentence anywhere anymore, so maybe it's not longer in play? Nevermind. It's in the Facebook post:

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If Alpine Lots are paid parking,
Deer Park is dedicated to boat inspections,
Hidden Valley is parking for rafting
free parking is only At squaw,
they only run TLC, roundhouse & Summit,
And this is a trial run of the parking system


WHAT COULD GO WRONG….

 

[Andy Mink]

It says reservations are required, kind of mentions pay to play, but doesn't tell the cost. Brilliant!

 

[Paul Lutes]

Obviously, they'll be firing up the B2B to really confuse things on the 4th.

 

[Mendieta]

Obviously, they'll be firing up the B2B to really confuse things on the 4th.

They still hope to announce the cost for the B2B ride ... Before August 1st.

 

[4ster]

This could be an issue since they are announcing the policy AFTER opening sales for 23/24 passes if some attorney gets a wild hair like Northstar a few years ago.

Meanwhile skiing was popular on the Palisades at Palisades East today & the quality told the story…

Expectations exceeded again !

 

[John Webb]

Looking Forward: New Solutions to Traffic Impacts for the 2023/24 Season - Palisades Tahoe at Lake Tahoe

In response to traffic impacts experienced over the past winter, we plan to implement new traffic and parking solutions on weekends and holidays during the 2023/24 winter season. Our goal is to reduce arrival and departure traffic impacts experienced by guests, employees, and our community...

blog.palisadestahoe.com

This sucks. Paying to park is against my religion. I see no weekend skiing going forward.
A better solution might be to add a 3rd lane (reversible) to 89 and more parking and make Alterra pay for it. That’s since Alterra wants to build more & more crap in the “village”.

 

[Mendieta]

This sucks. Paying to park is against my religion. I see no weekend skiing going forward.

I'm so glad I got a Sierra pass for next season!

 

[John Webb]

Obviously, they'll be firing up the B2B to really confuse things on the 4th.

B2B is really a transportation lift. It should run as much as possible. And until 5 or 6 in the evening so we don’t have a mad scramble to get back by 4 pm. The telluride gondola is a good example of operation after skiing is closed.

 

[Alexzn]

This sucks. Paying to park is against my religion. I see no weekend skiing going forward.
A better solution might be to add a 3rd lane (reversible) to 89 and more parking and make Alterra pay for it. That’s since Alterra wants to build more & more crap in the “village”.

John, the problem is the Mousehole and you cannot add a third lane there.

 

[Andy Mink]

John, the problem is the Mousehole and you cannot add a third lane there.

If they wave enough $$$ anything can be done. A bridge over the tracks, a jump, widening it, whatever. It's just money.

 

[textrovert]

This sucks. Paying to park is against my religion. I see no weekend skiing going forward.
A better solution might be to add a 3rd lane (reversible) to 89 and more parking and make Alterra pay for it. That’s since Alterra wants to build more & more crap in the “village”.

If the podcast from a month or so ago, they mentioned 3 reservation tiers-

• Reserved Free
• Reserved Free Carpool
• Reserved Paid (preferred parking)

Not sure if they are walking that back to just reserved paid only...

 

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9:30am-Noon at Alpine today.

Pleasant weather, great snow.

Palisades-


Estelle Bowl-

 

[4ster]

If they wave enough $$$ anything can be done. A bridge over the tracks, a jump, widening it, whatever. It's just money.

I’m with @Andy Mink on this. It’s the mega-pass/resorts that created these issues, they are the ones profiting, they should be the ones solving it & paying for it. If they are going to sell X amount of passes they should provide ample parking & access. All of it should be included in the cost of the pass NOT as an add-on.

9:30am-Noon at Alpine today.

Pleasant weather, great snow.

I was so tempted to go back to Alpine today but headed the other direction for some backcountry turns instead.


One more from yesterday’s Palisades session with the terrain park below …

 

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Clips from Estelle Bowl today-

 

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I was so tempted to go back to Alpine today but headed the other direction for some backcountry turns instead.

That looks awesome

 

[John Webb]

John, the problem is the Mousehole and you cannot add a third lane there.

True , but you can take the next exit for Truckee and backtrack on W River St to avoid the mousehole.
The railroad will not pay to improve the mousehole that’s why we have the baby mousehole for hiker/bikers.

 

[Paul Lutes]

I vote for re-routing the train tracks and removing the track dike completely. Sooner or later something's going to go horribly wrong there.

 

[Paul Lutes]

I’m with @Andy Mink on this. It’s the mega-pass/resorts that created these issues, they are the ones profiting, they should be the ones solving it & paying for it. If they are going to sell X amount of passes they should provide ample parking & access. All of it should be included in the cost of the pass NOT as an add-on.


I was so tempted to go back to Alpine today but headed the other direction for some backcountry turns instead.
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One more from yesterday’s Palisades session with the terrain park below …
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Is that a new thing this season to have the terrain park there??
I mean, it makes sense with OV closed, but I'm a little surprised it wasn't hyped more.