Oh-9/Oh-10 Tahoe Weather, Stoke, and What's Up Thread

**Ottime** · 01-01-2010, 10:47 AM

Heading out to KW in a bit. Snowing up here nice an steady.

Yesterday the boundry was still closed. Learned it was due to gaper season. So we skinned up Red Cliffs and skied to Caples. Nice soft snow. A few pics to come. Seems like my best may be of Powdork inbounds.

**3snowboards** · 01-01-2010, 10:57 AM

Originally Posted by Ottime

Yesterday the boundry was still closed. Learned it was due to gaper season.

So it will stay closed till at least Mon?
or is this sunday going to be considered the end?

**splat** · 01-01-2010, 11:41 AM

Palisades to Hell's Delight...Thanks, Ty!

Why no huck into the chute for the straightline out at the end, tho?

**gimpy** · 01-01-2010, 12:11 PM

happy new years tahoe crew!!! after sum sumwhat disheartening ski missions this last week finally found where the goods are hiding yesterday only to wake up to snain this morn. looks like the snow level is just up a bit higher though so i'm still gonna go and see whats what. may the rest of our year be filled w/ blower bliss.

**powdork** · 01-01-2010, 12:23 PM

damn you! when i got your message i was already out the door.
Caples Lake was not shitty yesterday. Not sure what's in store for today yet, though.

**Tyrone Shoelaces** · 01-01-2010, 02:20 PM

Originally Posted by splat

Palisades to Hell's Delight...Thanks, Ty!

Why no huck into the chute for the straightline out at the end, tho?

Haha. there was a huck there. But I gaped it and beatered so I cut it

**splat** · 01-01-2010, 04:04 PM

That was almost the classic maggot chute run. I always think of that time a couple years ago when you, me and Punani did that run and the huck to straightline. I beatered that huck two seasons ago this time, had to spin a 360 on my shoulder to get my skis under me before the rock wall and tore the shit out of my rotator cuff and detached my bicep tendon. Miraculously, it has healed on it's own. Gawd, I love that run.

**AKA** · 01-01-2010, 04:12 PM

Originally Posted by Tyrone Shoelaces

Haha. there was a huck there. But I gaped it and beatered so I cut it

there was certainly no handrail, kind of unforgivable.

**Nuthon** · 01-01-2010, 04:43 PM

& again the Kirkwood power house is in flames. Wife just called & said they were evacuating employee housing & red cliffs lodge. Supposedly they are going to be running again tom. Back up generators are on the way. lol what a joke

**MashedPotatoes** · 01-01-2010, 04:47 PM

Originally Posted by Ottime

Yesterday the boundry was still closed. Learned it was due to gaper season.

was it open today? any chance it will be open tomorrow? cause I'd be down for some slackcountry goodness.

edit: just saw Nuthon's post, WTF.

**Ovis** · 01-01-2010, 06:03 PM

fire-Wood
not a pretty picture, but you can see the smoke

**SDW** · 01-01-2010, 06:11 PM

Originally Posted by Ovis

fire-Wood
not a pretty picture, but you can see the smoke

http://www.kcra.com/news/22106707/detail.html

bs · 01-01-2010, 06:24 PM

this is what happens when you spend all your money on building crappy handle tows that never run instead of maintaining your power generation.

**RaccoonFace** · 01-01-2010, 08:16 PM

Maybe they should hand out Marshmallows instead of Jolly Ranchers

okbye

**StormDay** · 01-01-2010, 10:29 PM

Originally Posted by onehotchili

i'll be out of town Dec 21-Jan 1 visiting family/relatives on the East Coast. thank you very much.... i am sure it will be DUMPING then...

thanks OHC. It was a GREAT 12 days. I didn't make any powder turns on just 3 of those days. (2 of those I was skiing with the little kids, so no hiking and the 3rd I was driving home today.)

So, have you booked the trip to HI for next year yet?

**Magnus_CA** · 01-01-2010, 11:30 PM

Originally Posted by bullhorn

Anybody know why Mott Chair has been down for the last several days?

Mott chair? Are you moonlighting at Heavenly Tom? What happened to the Squaw pass?

**billcallen** · 01-02-2010, 12:30 AM

Mott will remain closed until we get some more snowfall just way to thin over there and to many holiday gapers to get themselves all messed up in the canyons

**darryl** · 01-02-2010, 12:41 AM

Originally Posted by MashedPotatoes

was it open today? any chance it will be open tomorrow? cause I'd be down for some slackcountry goodness.

edit: just saw Nuthon's post, WTF.

Howdy, longtime lurker, firsttime poster.

Well, if it *does* open, I reckon the lines will be a touch shorter, as the threat of getting stuck on a lift has reportedly resulted in cancellations of half of the weekend reservations, says Cohee:

http://www.tahoedailytribune.com/art...100109984/1008

He also claims that the lifts will be turning by 9AM, but I know his word is not worth much in these parts.

**bullhorn** · 01-02-2010, 01:03 AM

Originally Posted by Magnus_CA

Mott chair? Are you moonlighting at Heavenly Tom? What happened to the Squaw pass?

I got a squaw pass this year. But somebody gave me a heavenly day pass that I need to use by 1/15. I'll probably do a day next weekend there.

**Sinecure** · 01-02-2010, 01:34 AM

OHC is back in town. That explains the rain.

**powdork** · 01-02-2010, 03:19 AM

Originally Posted by darryl

He also claims that the lifts will be turning by 9AM, but I know his word is not worth much in these parts.

i'm gonna trust him and have a backup plan. it was snowing hard when shit went crazy and it was already really good.

just got word on the cause of the fire.

Sour Diesel.

**billcallen** · 01-02-2010, 11:32 AM

possibly the best line in the tribune article is when cohee is quoted saying

“We don't know yet for certain, but it certainly burned a lot longer and a lot hotter than we thought it would,” Cohee said. “I think the building is toast, and most if not all of the equipment.”

well damn it kirkwood can't even get there buildings to burn at the right temperate whos running the show out there. Though the other theory conspiracy seems like he had some predetermined ideas as to how he wanted this fire to go

**skier666** · 01-02-2010, 07:06 PM

Skied Alpine today because of the KW debacle. The irony is that it basically rained to the top of Alpine, while Kirkwood was probably so freaking good. I warmed up with the Dad, Turx, and Cinders and then hit everything from Estelle face, high yellow, boundary line out in Sherwood, Sherwood cliffs, early Promised Land, high yellow and there was NO pow to be found. Totally breakable crust over top 4/5ths of mountain with the bottom 1/5th frozen solid. Still had a great time because the snow was easy to manage and felt 'interesting.'. Nothing slid as I performed AC work.

The Dad and I finished the day with a little bc condo run in the protected trees and found a couple turns of 'so close to pow' pow.