The Official 19/20 Tahoe Ski Snowboard Thread. Plus bonus Bootfitting Recs!

For now this is a cut and paste from the 15/16 Season. i'll get things brought to the present in a minute (the long kind of minute).
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Eastside Conditions Thread. Go to the beginning of this year's posts



CA East Side BC Thread ~213~
Eastern Sierra ~DrPete


Just like last year, if you have suggestions, links, find bugs, or random thoughts let it flow. Hopefully this can become a useful tool that will only get better next year!

08/09 Tahoe Thread
09/10 Tahoe Thread
10/11 Tahoe Thread
11/12 Tahoe Thread
13/14 Tahoe Thread
14/15 Thread
16/17 Thread
17/18 Thread
18/19 Thread


WebCam Quick Links:
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Truckee I-80 You Pick 'ems


TRAFFIC / ROAD CONDITIONS
California DOT
Nevada DOT - Highway Controls Summary 511 or 877-687-6237 (877-NVROADS)
nvroads.com


ACCIDENTS
California Highway Patrol - Traffic Incident Page (select area - Truckee, Sacramento, Bishop, etc.)

WEATHER FORECASTS & SNOW CONDITIONS + BACKCOUNTRY INFO

SNOTEL Data: ~ja_surf~
Carson Pass
Heavenly
Echo Peak
Fallen Leaf Lake
Squaw Granite Chief
Mt. Rose


WEATHER & SNOW CONDITIONS ~Skis4Fun~

Sierra Avalanche Center - Know before you go

NWS - Area Forecast Discussion (Reno)

NWS - Area Forecast Discussion (Sacramento)

NRCS National Resources Conservation Service - National Weather & Climate Center - California SNOTEL Sites

Mammoth Forecast from the Dweeb

Different way to access the snotel data
Squaw Valley SQWC1 8200 ft

Carson Pass CXSC1 8500 ft


CDEC sites ~mmcpheet~
We're mostly in the American River section
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/reportapp/j...me=SnowSensors

Some Backcountry Info
Sierra Avalanche Center - Know before you go. Also consider donating or attending one of their many events.

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/rev/avalanche/
When the "Forecasts" tab is open, click "Snow Level Forecasts." Really cool charts that show whether the snow level is likely to dip below the passes (or lifts or trailheads) in the near future. ~LightRanger~

WEATHER MAPS


Loops:
University of Washington Maps


Maps:

http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/Loop/...hwest_loop.gif

http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/Loop/...hwest_loop.gif

http://squall.sfsu.edu/gif/jetstream_pac_loop.gif

http://virga.sfsu.edu/gif/jetsat_00.gif



http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/west/nepac/wv.jpg

http://www.atmo.arizona.edu/gifs/WV500MB.GIF

Seemed like this belongs here more than in the previous thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UnHRhSawv0

Woo snow! https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...d0a589ba2c.jpg

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Now we're talking! This will be my first year as a full time resident of Tahoe. Not really my first year being nearly full time in Tahoe, but the first year I don't have a residence anywhere else (aka Bay Area). We're moving to our house in Alpine Meadows full time starting in November. I can't wait!

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Originally Posted by Sinecure

Now we're talking! This will be my first year as a full time resident of Tahoe. Not really my first year being nearly full time in Tahoe, but the first year I don't have a residence anywhere else (aka Bay Area). We're moving to our house in Alpine Meadows full time starting in November. I can't wait!

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That's a season jinx if I've ever seen one...

(Welcome back!)

All the links are dead from back when I was SCUTSKI. Which was... until 2009 or 2010. Fuck man. Pushing a decade and a half around this place.

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Originally Posted by LightRanger

Pushing a decade and a half around this place.

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This place, or this place and the other place, and the other place before that?

Fixed (or mostly removed) all the broken links. Let me know if you want something up there.

And since we scoff at the idea of jinxes these days

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Ensembles show another TROUGH for Friday into next weekend. The
timing and depth are yet to be determined, but it is a solid signal
for 8-10 days out. Another cooling trend with gusty winds ahead of
the FRONT and more showers along and behind the FRONT. Of note, some
ensemble members are quite cold with this TROUGH, colder than
anything seen so far this fall. Stay tuned. X

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There was even mention of snow to valley floors.

edit to add - 'so far this fall' ???

4 days until Fall. I like it. Fuck jinxes.

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Originally Posted by powdork

Fixed (or mostly removed) all the broken links. Let me know if you want something up there.

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Cool. There are a lot of new weather graphics out these days, but not sure how many of them we can hotlink to autoupdate.

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Originally Posted by powdork

And since we scoff at the idea of jinxes these days


There was even mention of snow to valley floors.

edit to add - 'so far this fall' ???

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I, for one, would like to see another October 2004. CPC for October is meh though.

Well since its right in the title I'll be the first looser to ask. Looking for bootfitter recs in the area. Just graduated college on the east coast, moved out to the bay (I know I know...), and want to get out of my stupid torture device race boots into something reasonable now that I'm old and washed up and not competing anymore. Inbounds only as I already have a good pair of dedicated touring boots. Willing to drive anywhere around Tahoe but I will mainly being skiing squaw/alpine.

Over under on the unr ski swap this weekend? Generally looking for alpine hard goods for my long limbed skinny early teen.

We usually score well at the Truckee swap, tahoe Nordic swap, and that consignment shop in TC.

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Originally Posted by davjr96

Well since its right in the title I'll be the first looser to ask. Looking for bootfitter recs in the area. Just graduated college on the east coast, moved out to the bay (I know I know...), and want to get out of my stupid torture device race boots into something reasonable now that I'm old and washed up and not competing anymore. Inbounds only as I already have a good pair of dedicated touring boots. Willing to drive anywhere around Tahoe but I will mainly being skiing squaw/alpine.

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Tahoe Sports Hub, Blue Zone, Start Haus - have had good experiences at all three between myself / friends / family.

Living in CO now but still going to have to keep on eye here for when I come back and visit.

Nice PD!

It was time. Even though this precip still goes on last year's account. But there's a ski swap this weekend (technically on equinox so in fall '19 at least) and we are definitely looking ahead more than back. Movies are not too far off... Start Haus labor day sale should be the new thread time. It's all about starting the "did we jinx it?" roller coaster at the right time so we go through the pit of despair in late October and are on the upswing by December, just in time for at least lift-serve.

Also, this next week or two may be fun, but fall looks like total crap at the mo:

https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/produc...off01_temp.gif

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Originally Posted by davjr96

Well since its right in the title I'll be the first looser to ask. Looking for bootfitter recs in the area. Just graduated college on the east coast, moved out to the bay (I know I know...), and want to get out of my stupid torture device race boots into something reasonable now that I'm old and washed up and not competing anymore. Inbounds only as I already have a good pair of dedicated touring boots. Willing to drive anywhere around Tahoe but I will mainly being skiing squaw/alpine.

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Originally Posted by TahoeJ

Tahoe Sports Hub, Blue Zone, Start Haus - have had good experiences at all three between myself / friends / family.

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If you want to stay in starving college student or ski bum mode, Start Haus has a hella lot experience softening and stretching race boots. So it'd be worth asking them what they can do to your current boots.

If you want new boots as part of your new life as a well paid member of the Bay Area workforce, as you know, that'll be dictated more by which shop carries which brands, and your personal preferences. I'll try and be unbiased and add:
Elite Feet
Granite Chief
Olympic Bootworks

Since you'll be a general public customer, not a teenager ski team member that they'd have a stake in fitting, probably the most important thing is to not be shy, and talk some smack.

"I just moved out from Vermont, New Hampshire, wherever. In case you hadn't noticed, that's why I'm wearing a Boston Red Sox cap. I used to race Slalom, GS, Super G, and Downhill. I want my new boots to fit like my race boots... Only with a 130 flex instead of a 160 flex. And a little more room here and here.

I only carpool with SnoPals to reduce my carbon footprint and save the world from global warming. And of course to wow hot Bay Area women with my ex-racer skills."

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Originally Posted by Sinecure

Now we're talking! This will be my first year as a full time resident of Tahoe. Not really my first year being nearly full time in Tahoe, but the first year I don't have a residence anywhere else (aka Bay Area). We're moving to our house in Alpine Meadows full time starting in November. I can't wait!

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Congrats, brah!

(you may remember me from such winters as 2012 and 2013)

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Originally Posted by jahroy

(you may remember me from such winters as 2012 and 2013)

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Originally Posted by davjr96

Well since its right in the title I'll be the first looser to ask. Looking for bootfitter recs in the area. Just graduated college on the east coast, moved out to the bay (I know I know...), and want to get out of my stupid torture device race boots into something reasonable now that I'm old and washed up and not competing anymore. Inbounds only as I already have a good pair of dedicated touring boots. Willing to drive anywhere around Tahoe but I will mainly being skiing squaw/alpine.

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Check in with Benny. He has an entire thread on boot buying stoke.

New boot guy as of last season - Fasa at the Moment Skis factory store came from Salt Lake and knows his stuff. They have all the gear for tweaking boots etc.

re bootfitters:

Any recent experiences with Cal-ski-co in Berkeley - I see old mixed reviews...

+1 for Elite Feet at Squaw Creek.

Cal ski co seems to be one of the only Bay Area places that gets some positive feedback, but I prefer to do stuff in Tahoe in case I want something tweeked right after skiing.

Oh, how I hate finding new boots, but it has to happen this year.