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California/Nevada 2022-2023 Tahoe Ski Resorts/Conditions/Meetups
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Today Wednesday was my most excellent ski day so far this winter. Sluggish morning so didn't start skiing till 11:30am. Sunny 40F light breeze. Boulder lot never more than half full today. Skied Little Dipper mostly that showed no ill effects from the sacrilegious left side grooming last Wednesday as the weekend masses did a most excellent job returning it to wonderful skier packed powder forms on cold mid winter 9k snow its known for. Expect some of my best GoPro8 recordings thus far as was in the zone visually locked in with the near terrain. Lots and lots of good bump skiers looping it all day. Tomorrow will be repeat but early.
2 much fun
In very nice motel room Black Jack lodge on Park Ave for just $72 total. Hot shower, spaghetti and broccoli cheese soup fed, and about at 7pm to have some in the dark of night street walking watching fun. Wander over to that Hard Rock Casino lounge and for a bit show them some fs dancing.
2 much fun
In very nice motel room Black Jack lodge on Park Ave for just $72 total. Hot shower, spaghetti and broccoli cheese soup fed, and about at 7pm to have some in the dark of night street walking watching fun. Wander over to that Hard Rock Casino lounge and for a bit show them some fs dancing.
I skied Palisades today because the kids were out of school for a "winter sports" day -- beautiful day with nice, chalky snow on north-ish facing slopes. Really fun today. I'm so glad the snow held up despite the warm temps yesterday. And it was a very easy drive with only light traffic that didn't cause any slowing both to and from the resort. I sure wish I could ski more weekdays!
Some bad news at https://www.sfgate.com/renotahoe/article/south-lake-tahoe-raleys-closes-17771764.php Stateline Raley's closing in June. It's close enough to walk from my family's cabin (about 6 blocks) and that is what we usually do in the summer after unpacking. Looks like we'll be going to the Round Hill Safeway more often as the closer one in Bijou is usually too busy.
And more bad news for my son who is driving to South Lake Tahoe today https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/tahoe-drive-from-bay-area-17769416.php on one the four days in February to avoid. He'll probably sneak out of work early, but not early enough to avoid Friday traffic and I think he's picking up friends in Oakland on way.
And more bad news for my son who is driving to South Lake Tahoe today https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/tahoe-drive-from-bay-area-17769416.php on one the four days in February to avoid. He'll probably sneak out of work early, but not early enough to avoid Friday traffic and I think he's picking up friends in Oakland on way.
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It took me about 2/3 of a season after moving to Sacramento to realize that unlike my Bay-area-based ski lease-mates, I didn't need to get to Tahoe on Friday nights and could instead drive up on Saturday morning, arms race parking shenanigans aside. (Speaking of, here's what PT is sharing: https://blog.palisadestahoe.com/gen...isades-tahoe-parking-traffic-safety-and-more/)
My skiing has much improved since I moved west, but my traffic and parking anxiety has gone through the roof.
Just another reason for me to strongly dislike much about real estate corporations in this era.
Horrible news for Heavenly skiers and anyone living or lodging about the east side of South Lake Tahoe near Stateline. Obviously greedy out of region corporate real estate bean counters pushing to maximize profits. Raleys is the decades old economical and walk to convenient food resources for that whole zone. Raleys still has the several miles away US50/SR89 at the Y store and Safeway is a couple miles west. As a long time frugal peon, I rarely eat at any of the many Stateline zone pricy restaurants that target wealthy destination vacation skiers and gambling wealthy and instead use the supermarkets.
The Village Center (small shopping center built 1964) is now owned by Crescent Tahoe Partnership Ltd, a company created in 2014 owned by Hackett Management Group.
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Heavenly February 10
I normally do Palisades on Fridays but with the newspaper touting the hordes invading this evening decided to do HV as its's a drive down the usually calm east shore for me. Arrived at 12:50 and got medicore parking in Stagecoach. Left and drove back to Incline with no delays. I love Palisades, but not enough to spend an extra hour each way sitting still in the car, which has been a thing lately.
Generally stayed high on the mountain all afternoon. Excellent snow quality in Nevada- the bumps in the shade were soft and fluffy and the bumps in the sun were soft and cream cheesy. In CA the ungroomed areas (I made passes down Pinnacles proper and Skiways) were crunchy until about 3pm, so it was a slim window there. The Sky/Canyon Groomers were excellent cruising, though busy. While complaining about the crunch in Skiways, lift companion said Maggies was better and he was absolutely correct. Nice "slightly spring" conditions in there.
Best snow on the mountain (as usual) was Milky Way, and Northside of Mott had fluff and chalk. I lapped the Y a few times; other areas looked to have fantastic coverage, but relatively late in the day skiing solo I didn't want to get off by myself too far and at one time I swear I was the only person in the canyon other than the lift opp. The snowpack and tree well risk this season continue to give me the creeps. Sunny side of Mott had the best coverage I ever recall and was nice and soft, so I skied quite a few lines I've never skied before over there. Found no rocks. Definitely need to spend more time there this season.
Meteor was nicely ungroomed and had well formed bumps so I did that a bit. @SSSdave they have taken a knife to the face of the Little Dipper Mona Lisa and groomed half of it again. The half that was left with bumps I found a little too big to really enjoy.
End of day it cooled off quickly. I decided to just do the full Olympic Downhill run to the truck. At the top of Olympic was met with a completely empty run so I indulged myself down to about 2/3. Upon encountering traffic I decided to hit the Stagecoach liftline which was surprisingly very nice indeed with well formed bumps.
There are a lot of annoying things about HV but parts of it do hold snow very well, and when those big groomers are empty there's not much anywhere that's better for laying railroad tracks. Just don't see it too often.
I normally do Palisades on Fridays but with the newspaper touting the hordes invading this evening decided to do HV as its's a drive down the usually calm east shore for me. Arrived at 12:50 and got medicore parking in Stagecoach. Left and drove back to Incline with no delays. I love Palisades, but not enough to spend an extra hour each way sitting still in the car, which has been a thing lately.
Generally stayed high on the mountain all afternoon. Excellent snow quality in Nevada- the bumps in the shade were soft and fluffy and the bumps in the sun were soft and cream cheesy. In CA the ungroomed areas (I made passes down Pinnacles proper and Skiways) were crunchy until about 3pm, so it was a slim window there. The Sky/Canyon Groomers were excellent cruising, though busy. While complaining about the crunch in Skiways, lift companion said Maggies was better and he was absolutely correct. Nice "slightly spring" conditions in there.
Best snow on the mountain (as usual) was Milky Way, and Northside of Mott had fluff and chalk. I lapped the Y a few times; other areas looked to have fantastic coverage, but relatively late in the day skiing solo I didn't want to get off by myself too far and at one time I swear I was the only person in the canyon other than the lift opp. The snowpack and tree well risk this season continue to give me the creeps. Sunny side of Mott had the best coverage I ever recall and was nice and soft, so I skied quite a few lines I've never skied before over there. Found no rocks. Definitely need to spend more time there this season.
Meteor was nicely ungroomed and had well formed bumps so I did that a bit. @SSSdave they have taken a knife to the face of the Little Dipper Mona Lisa and groomed half of it again. The half that was left with bumps I found a little too big to really enjoy.
End of day it cooled off quickly. I decided to just do the full Olympic Downhill run to the truck. At the top of Olympic was met with a completely empty run so I indulged myself down to about 2/3. Upon encountering traffic I decided to hit the Stagecoach liftline which was surprisingly very nice indeed with well formed bumps.
There are a lot of annoying things about HV but parts of it do hold snow very well, and when those big groomers are empty there's not much anywhere that's better for laying railroad tracks. Just don't see it too often.
Just to be clear, you are relating Heavenly groomed the skiers left half of Little Dipper again? I drove home yesterday afternoon. Had been watching the daily HV Lift Status for days and per below it shows again no Little Dipper grooming last night for Friday skiing. (grooming symbol per Little Dipper Return) So you are relating that is incorrect and they actually did groom it again? On one of my GoPro recordings from a week ago Thursday (not Published on my Youtube page) have a bunch of old time Heavenly bump locals including Heavenly employees right on the slope last week emphatically discussing how they were all complaining about it to Vail HV management via emails and internal letters. When we saw the slope left alone this week, everyone was confident that would be the end of whatever experiment that was. And the slope was full of bump skiers having fun again. The bump shapes are excellent across the whole slope so there would not be a snow quality reason to flatten them.
And if so I doubt they would provide a reason as anything spouted would be lame showing attitude. Makes me wonder if so if some envious mogul-hating advanced skier has risen to some position of power in the local run groomer policy management? There are certainly still a few mogul hating can't ski em advanced skiers around but I would not expect they would ever actually do something like that as they would know many local hard core long time HV folks would strongly disapprove. That happened at Kirkwood over a decade ago as they began periodically grooming Look-Out-Yanek under the Cornice Quad and likewise many USA resort bump slopes a couple decades ago suffered same disgusting mowing fate like it was some industry wide acceptable action.
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Had a great day skiing Alpine yesterday for my first time with @Pat AKA mustski and Bob my amazing hosts for the past two days - thank you both 
I now understand the parking issues first hand -- can't even imagine on a weekend.
Also nice to meet @Andy Mink and @AKMINK and spend some time with @Tricia and @Philpug
I now understand the parking issues first hand -- can't even imagine on a weekend.
Also nice to meet @Andy Mink and @AKMINK and spend some time with @Tricia and @Philpug
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This is interesting. Chef Jacques Pepin was a ski instructor. His future wife was on patrol. This must have been early 70’s?
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This is interesting. Chef Jacques Pepin was a ski instructor. His future wife was on patrol. This must have been early 70’s?
If you are into cooking, follow him on FB. He post stuff all the time that is geared toward home cooks and religiously follows the KISS principle.
Back to the stoke. Short day today because of the lines and to come back and watch the Superb Owl.
Pics from yesterday....
On the stoke side, excellent skiing today at PT. North facing terrain held a lot of wintry soft snow, even some winddrifts at places. Lines were very manageable, lots of lifts and terrain open. Headwall was skiing very nicely, NorthBowl in particular. Solitude still held excellent snow as well. IFSA comp over at the Cornice II area and around provided lots of ohs and ahs, some of the airs the kids did were quite impressive.
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Quick morning ski at Mt. Rose today. Beautiful bluebird with great snow!
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