Thread: 11/12 Tahoe Weather, Conditions, Stoke, and What's Up Thread... IT'S BAAAAAAAACK!!!

No info on the KW slides, but those aspects all got early sun (covered wagon ripped in 3 places, the big one of thimble that went to the traverse that SC saw, and another on sunnyside of vista that I did not get a look at). More northerly stuff was amazing before everything went bluebird. Some overhead waves were definitely had, and lower angle stuff was not reactive early morn or late afternoon. Hardly wind effected on NE facing where we were, which is surprising given the original forecasts. Tahoe delivered this weekend!!!

And just to add more beta - death star did it's magic today. Besides the wettish slides, there was a goo breakable crust at the end of the day on N-facing slopes. Finally spring skiin season!

we made a mess as well today as expected after last night.

Originally Posted by frorider

Skied gaperwood all morning using special liftline strategies. Around 12:30 4 was opening, but the crush of humanity on 2 had us thinking it was time for skinning at Luther. Saw a lot of emergency vehicles tearing out to kwood as we left.

Any other info on what happened?

Apparently, it was a couple of slides in/near Button Bowl. Lifts were shut down from 1:00 - 3:00, after that just frontside lifts and no sentinel or pali access. They did keep the mountain open until 4:30 though.

Anyone know if alpine hikes stayed closed today or did they just not update their website during the day?

Originally Posted by mmmm...pow!

Anyone know if alpine hikes stayed closed today or did they just not update their website during the day?

Not sure about the afternoon session but hikes weren't open in the morning -left Alpine around noon. Anything steeper than 30deg slid... even the chute that seldom slides.... slid.

Alpine hikes did not open. Very active snow day in-bounds, just about everything with any sort of pitch slid. Lots of action over on Beaver and Estelle (as viewed from Lakeview chair) as well, if its anything like the snow in the other places that slid, its gonna ski like dust on crust (unless something magical happens overnight).

B-lined it for Scott Chair in the morning hoping to lay some fresh tracks down Scott Chute, however, after waiting too long and looking at things from the lift we saw it had slide from the top (skiers left and right) and the middle was pretty scrappy underneath. Settled for a nice run down Promise Land. Should have been beeping in-bounds today.

according to facebook noone was injured and all april 1st tickets will be honored again any day this season.

Thanks for the info. Feeling a little better about not being at that circus today, earned some quality turns instead, might be the call for tomorrow, too.

Anyone have any info on the SAR op out at Hellhole? (Luther Pass, not the reservoir) Looked like a 2-day search - heard something about missing snowboarders ... Hoping things turn out well.

Good times at the wood. Saw a bunch of peeps. Some meat was hucked. White stuff got in my face, which hasn't happened much this season. As to stability, it seemed better than Wednesday, nothing moved for me. Good on patrol for closing the mountain, doing the sweeps, and reopening some terrain. Sure did warm up fast - I heard 15-30 degrees inside a half hour, combined with light pow over ice crust set things to moving. Coop and others were out spreading the news about conditions and the day ticket comps (don't clip it).

The saddle looked money just before the mtn closed. Good chance it's protected enough and will be fun tomorrow. Somebody hit that.

^ SAR at Luther was nothing major. Snowmobiler got lost. Sun went down. Called out in the middle of the night, they found him a mile from the road and guided him out.

Originally Posted by G

^ SAR at Luther was nothing major. Snowmobiler got lost. Sun went down.

I wish I would have known that when our group got NIMBYed to hell trying to access forestry service public land on skis from a residential road parking pullout today. Someone ran after us and pulled the you will die / SAR has to rescue you card, don't you know my group has been looking for 3 snowboarders in Hellhole for the last 3 days and the avy danger is HIGH, and they didn't quite take well enough to our credentials or preparation (apparently the full BC gear in our group, each person fully AIARE 1 trained, snowpack evaluations I made earlier in the day in the same area, my two 16-hour WFA trainings I've taken in the last 3 years, emergency med kit + emergency overnight gear just wasn't good enough for a gentle 2 hour outing). Really, this person just didn't want us parking in the neighborhood. The reason we know this person didn't really care about our safety is that when we came back we got a "polite" note on the car asking us not to park on a maintained road paid for by ... the same association from which one of us is renting property. Awesome.

Sorry to vent, I inappropriately dropped some names today hoping that person would get the picture, so if it makes it back to you (not you G, someone else here on the board), I'm apologize and it was inappropriate to use your name. I was as polite as possible over a several minute "conversation" - others in my group had lost their patience with this person in about 15 seconds.

Was the first down boylermaker just before things were closed up. A few lines in the trees had slid and was super slick underneath were it ran. Still an awesome morning. Probably still some goods in the saddle as everyone was too busy on the sunny side or stuck on chair two.

Tough trail breaking today on West Shore. Snow was deep and seemed really slippery. Then all my favorite runs must have slid during the storm as it was dust on crust on anything with a pitch. Never seen so much debris and slide activity in my favorite trees. Some of it was deceiving as it still looked like pow but was rock hard underneath a thin veneer of blower. Sort of a let down as far as expectations but still tons of good turns and fun. Played photographer today and got a few decent pics. Besides slough didn't get anything to move on our accord.

Sluffalicious was the word for the day Sunday. Gotta love it when you and your bud punch a trail to one of your favorite peaks and nobody else shows up all day long. Gotta say we set off some of the longest running sluffs I've ever seen, amazing April fools day!

Originally Posted by SchralphMacchio

Tahoe delivered this weekend!!!

Correction: Tahoe fucking delivered this weekend!!!

MapleLeafGillies holding his breath before going into the white room, April 1 2012

Two can play at that game...

Originally Posted by SchralphMacchio

I wish I would have known that when our group got NIMBYed to hell trying to access forestry service public land on skis from a residential road parking pullout today. Someone ran after us and pulled the you will die / SAR has to rescue you card, don't you know my group has been looking for 3 snowboarders in Hellhole for the last 3 days and the avy danger is HIGH, and they didn't quite take well enough to our credentials or preparation (apparently the full BC gear in our group, each person fully AIARE 1 trained, snowpack evaluations I made earlier in the day in the same area, my two 16-hour WFA trainings I've taken in the last 3 years, emergency med kit + emergency overnight gear just wasn't good enough for a gentle 2 hour outing). Really, this person just didn't want us parking in the neighborhood. The reason we know this person didn't really care about our safety is that when we came back we got a "polite" note on the car asking us not to park on a maintained road paid for by ... the same association from which one of us is renting property. Awesome.

Sorry to vent, I inappropriately dropped some names today hoping that person would get the picture, so if it makes it back to you (not you G, someone else here on the board), I'm apologize and it was inappropriate to use your name. I was as polite as possible over a several minute "conversation" - others in my group had lost their patience with this person in about 15 seconds.

Glad you were there to filibuster. Sure, it took us ten minutes to get out of there, but your name dropping at the end of it, was what finally made her say "okay." Even after her claim that she was only stopping us to assist patrol, and we explained we had just spoken to patrol that had come across us in the parking lot. I was ready to just tell her, "sorry, this is public land, and you can't stop me." I can only attribute her attitude to extreme exhaustion from the previous 24 hours of SAR work OR she is one of a few old timer home owners near the top of that road that absolutely hate anyone who has not been skinning that zone for at least 15 years. Grumpy folks indeed. Funny thing 1) they tend to ski down a totally different zone than the newbie (as in showed up sometime after 1995) group and 2) one of them set a skin track across the roll over under Martin's Point (as in across a start zone). No one I know would have been dumb enough to do that. And further, the previous evening 6 of those guys followed me up my skin track and none had gear. At least one of them was cool and chill. The others made it clear that they did not like me being at their spot, even after allowing me to break trail for them. Oh, they then headed for a 30^+ zone with cliffs and hang fire waiting above their slope.
/rant

Originally Posted by BGnight

Tough trail breaking today on West Shore. Snow was deep and seemed really slippery. Then all my favorite runs must have slid during the storm as it was dust on crust on anything with a pitch. Never seen so much debris and slide activity in my favorite trees. Some of it was deceiving as it still looked like pow but was rock hard underneath a thin veneer of blower. Sort of a let down as far as expectations but still tons of good turns and fun. Played photographer today and got a few decent pics. Besides slough didn't get anything to move on our accord.

I noticed a lot of debris, that seemed like it must have slid in the heat after the past few storms, as well. A lot in my usual smooth runout zones. Found the best snow in the lower angle trees. The upper wind exposed ridge was actually pretty fun in the morning, but a bit of a skin formed in the afternoon. The steep rollovers and cliff bands in the trees is were I found a lot of odd debris. One roller ball was maybe 5 foot diameter. Really seemed like a lot of wet slide activity had happened before this storm and even 20" was not enough to really cover it. But what was 20" in the trees, was only a few on these steeper cliff zones, so I agree that a lot of this past storm must have slide at some point last night, and then got 6-10" over it.

Great morning turns with MLG and schralph. As for stability, I was able to easily set off small slides with ski cuts above rollovers that exceed 50^ for 30 feet in the afternoon. I watched MLF turn down some 35-40^ for 15 rollovers in the morning with only minor sluffs. My afternoon tests cut about 5" deep. I was unable to get anything to move off a morning ski cut that started on a small 30^ rollover above a sub 30^ slope. Skiing down the slope, I turned across a slightly steeper rollover with no reaction.

Originally Posted by Ottime

Two can play at that game...

Kickass shot!

Originally Posted by powdork

Man, that dog is about the most adorable, wriggly little thing I've seen since I was last in the shower.

Great vid -- you look like you found about the best spot on earth that day. Delicious pow...mmmmmm.

Originally Posted by Ottime

Yesssss! Clearly the much better angle to capture the r4Dn3sssssss

Sorry for dirtying up this thread with so many snowboard pics

^^^ nice BG! Especially the last one.....if only he were on skis doing a daffy....
- Looking at it closer is that dude doing a little acid drop off the boulder?

^ Money!!!!

Originally Posted by BGnight

BG shoots and scores! Best photo in Tahoe thread that I've seen. Experimentals are radddd!