Yikes. Glad everything turned out okay. Kirkwood was spooky quiet last weekend. Made summer weekends look like Presidents' Day.

We had no propane smell but also no hot water -- heater was failing...

Y'all with your made-up bullshit holidays. Chloe got Cesar Chavez day off, works for the county. BAH I say!

You've got a few things on me. 1. Ground clearance. 2. Studs (yeah, I'd take that shit...

This is relevant to my interests. In the same boat, got a place to stay at KW (but not hot water, hah), gonna try to make it up this weekend as last weekend was a no-go due to work. Thinking of...

http://img.answcdn.com/cew/13b4d0a5/0879e7ae3e2c98f7daaf94f885c80fff8ca959d9.png

Based on last weekend, I said KW would be dead this weekend. Wrong-o. Cars almost out to the highway at 10 today (Sunday). No lines to speak of, though, but I didn't spend a ton of time in the...

Haha, I took the EXACT same picture on Sunday afternoon. After a bunch of bouncing and banging around, I finally took out my phone to prep for a picture, and that spot was the best 3rd-world looking...

Northstar got really sticky really fast on Saturday. Still stayed on the hill until about 2:30 or 3.
Kirkwood was much better on Sunday. Spent all morning on the backside and the usual spots near...

Another propane bomb at Kirkwood. Right at the corner of Dangberg and Fremont I believe.

https://twitter.com/CHPSouthLake/status/847930829053468672

My in-laws are about a block or two up the road from there. I'm no rocket surgeon, and I don't know much about propane or propane-related accessories, but I believe that there's propane service all...

Yeah, I'm just lazy and like to do things on my own schedule. I'm not used to *having* to be somewhere by a certain time. Normally I just get on the hill when I feel like it, particularly when I'm...

As for the lines, yeah, I really don't get it.
At the beginning of winter, folks were talking about sitting in traffic for hours to go a few miles down in South Lake.
Here I see people posting...

Doesn't even take snow.

Westbound 88, just west of Kirkwood, closed this AM for a rollover.
https://twitter.com/CaltransDist10/status/837739861012406273

I've been sweating our Whistler trip all month. Flying up Sunday the 5th, and now it looks like we're gonna get lucky. It's gonna get some minor dumpage from now through Sunday, and then looks like a...

Tell me about it. Headed up to Whistler next weekend, they could sure use some more.

Ah I though this was a reference to the double-decreasing-radius left hand turn just after the lake eastbound. At least once someone who optimistically passed me in the passing zone after the lake...

https://twitter.com/CHPSouthLake/status/834603880096763904

I've got nothing against those who want to save money on their commute, but damn, driving a Prius Rolling Penalty Box (PRPB)TM all the way to the mountains from the bay area when you own.... anything...

The place I stay at KW is slightly downhill from the road, entrance on the 2nd story of course. There's a stairwell up the deck with a 90deg bend; in the winter we take off the side and just go in...

I happily use Waze for surprise traffic incidents but I don't know why anyone would trust user-reported data over actual CalTrans data. 2 weekends ago Waze+Google Maps+my car's NavTraffic system were...

Closure just got extended. At about 4pm, my buddy and his girlfriend were stuck in their jeep in a "20 minute closure" on 50, when a tree fell on the road in front of them. Threw it in reverse,...

Same at KW. Shuttles were packed, parking was not-quite-holiday-weekend bad, and there was... nobody in line.

Got out at the crack of noon both days this weekend, and the groomers were all time. ...

ready to slay some lift lines at the wood!

rolling in at 1am, never seen so many cars parked on the street at the various houses. gonna be busy.

Or until you look at the wheelsup link and see $17,500 initiation fee and $800 per seat to Truckee.

Then again, a friend with a ski lease in Truckee was talking about 1.5-2h to go 7mi to Northstar...

Drove around; turned off onto 49 around 10pm friday night and went 49->50->89->88. It was fine at that hour. Traffic on 50 but moving along nicely.

Everything was great; completely bare pavement...

Looks like 88 just opened from Peddler to Silver Lake. Now just the spur to go.....

Will do.

I've gone from hoping the spur stays closed as long as possible, to suddenly getting antsy that it won't open up by tomorrow evening. I'm sure it will, but that won't keep me from being...

*shakes fist* it took me a minute to find the pic, OKAY?

http://conti.net/rbp/kirkwoodcrash-3.jpg

No kidding. Need something to do while you're waiting to be able to flush the toilet.

Looks like the snow stake at Kirkwood first had all the snow blown off, now it looks like its been buried. Hard to tell with the light, but looks like snow level on the ground is all the way up to...

Kirkwood with over 29" of fresh snow!

http://i.imgur.com/Dxxijwp.jpg

11pm news said 80 closed both directions (had heard WB-only earlier) and 50 closed for the *2nd* time today.

Somewhat ironically, the Spur managed to stay open.

Got to be that asshole driving...

There's more where that came from. It just stopped raining in the bay area and there's still a lot of precip to the south heading your way. Not to mention the stuff still working its way down the...

I don't disagree, but I thought we were talking about drought, which has a real meaning, and a generally-accepted definition. When you look at a drought map they're talking about shortages of...

By definition, no.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/drought

A drought in a desert means the desert gets unusually low amounts of precip.

^5 bud, hope to see you next weekend. My snow tires are itching for some snow.

Supposed to dump all next week too. Take it easy over 50 getting to south lake. Carson Pass is almost always open, you'll be able to get to KW but likely those chains will come in handy. I'd get...

Sounds like KW was a lot like it was last Christmas -- roads closed both ways, just a handful of us having a grand ol' time on the mountain.

Last time I went to Death Valley it SNOWED.

Needless to say, I got my money back.