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[dookeyXXX]

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I slid off the ramp at the top of KT this morning at about 8:30 and it was classic “Tahoe boilerplate.” Skidded and scraped my way down “The Saddle” to Headwall chair.

I skied under the Headwall lift just a tad after 9 and it was already well into being cooked.

The area between the two groomers offa Siberia was pretty decent and consistent whipped cream cheese between 9:15 - 9:35.

Parts of the Shirley chair area were still firm at 10, especially if in the shade, but the stuff over by the wiggles was nice.

I called it at 10:30.

[jahroy]

West Face was skiing really nice when they decided to suddenly close KT for the season at 11am...

Pretty shocking and heartbreaking... But it's been a great spring.

Will probably have to hike KT a couple times just to get a little more fix... Was really expecting 3 more hours of great laps to say goodbye.

[dookeyXXX]

Ah man.
I cut out at 10.
Rode the funi down and almost skated over to KT, but called it a day.
Oh well.

Interesting to note: according to the Palisades site and blog they plan to keep GC spinning until close. Yet today it definitely was not running.

Anyway, based on today and the extended forecast, 8-10 is gonna be the window from here on out, imho.

[GKWood]

What happened to keeping things “open until you can’t ski it”? Pretty lame to put that in a blog post and then immediately go back on it. Unless there is some real reason I’m not aware of.


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[TahoeJ]

What happened to keeping things “open until you can’t ski it”? Pretty lame to put that in a blog post and then immediately go back on it. Unless there is some real reason I’m not aware of.

Super lame and it’s purely to save money. People were skiing it just fine on Sunday.

[dookeyXXX]

They should close Headwall at 11 and then open KT…

[mcski]

And they just said less than a week ago, we’ll run KT until it can’t be skied? Wtf Mgmt. Seems like they wanted to avoid the last chair snowballing as much as anything

[dookeyXXX]

Well, DSR was exclaiming “Open until the snow is gone,” yet they are now closed, so OV still comes out looking like winners as the last lift served game in town…

[TahoeJ]

A sinking tide lowers all boats… apparently.

[headwall]

Skier666 and I have a few things in common. We both like the neurofunk dnb and skiing on moments at the alpine lake palisades of the olympic tahoe meadows. The difference being I'm a JONG and he's not. Someone stapled a camera to my backpack for that pow day on cinco de mayo so I made a video with it because that was more fun than working.

[jahroy]

They should close Headwall at 11 and then open KT…

Great idea.

This makes two consecutive seasons where KT has closed with more snow than ever...

All with an increased level of bloviation about being the "spring skiing capital" and keeping lifts open "til they can't anymore."

Please open KT and Alpine or keep your lying mouths shut.

[rod9301]

At least on crescent, more time is needed for the snow to transform to corn.

6-8 inch ski penetration in gloppy snow

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[Ottime]

^^^ That is a bit shocking, but maybe those warm overnight temps halted the corn formation. Looks to get cooler a bit Monday.

I'm confused about KT. Of course the cams are all pointed away from the mountain (great view of the finitely building right now...) but from what I can see, it looks like there is continuous snow down Exhibition. I'd imagine snow is continuous down West Face and Saddle. I could see where Mountain Run could be a bit thin, but push a little snow around....

Honestly, I'm much less likely to drive up there to ski again without KT spinning. What does one do after 11am? Stick (literally) to the slopes somewhere?

Trying to get myself up for a run to Mammoth for a few days before they close, but that is a bit more drive.

[rod9301]

I skied the bumps on headwall last Saturday and they were good until i left, 1 30 or so.



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[TahoeBC]

^^^ That is a bit shocking, but maybe those warm overnight temps halted the corn formation. Looks to get cooler a bit Monday..

North up high wasn’t ready even before but the May 4th storm put down enough snow that it taking awhile to cook down and combine that with no overnight freezes except for superficial radiational cooling freezes im guessing early next week before north is good with the cooler temps forecasted. Unfortunately many lines will have been wreaked by people skiing transitional snow which by the time that heals approaches will be much tougher. Really kinda a bummer we got that last snow, one day of powder skiing wasn’t worth it, even though it was really fun.

[Ottime]

Well, I did not ski any powder that round, so I would have been fine without it as well. . I'm just hoping something holds up for the first week of June and I can get my kid out for a skin and maybe a few turns.

[skier666]

We both like the neurofunk dnb and skiing on moments

That's because we live in the future while everyone else lives in the past

[hercule33]

There's a discussion about the Palisades parking system in the current Moonshine Ink--available online. Needless to say the Palisades rep says it was a great success. The customer not so much. No word on how the local non skiing community feels about it.

I thought the customer was always right . But then again the definition of success matters. Did the parking system make a meaningful difference to traffic? No. Did the parking system show Palisades that they can implement new revenue streams from things that were previously free? Yes. Maybe reservations for tables at the lodge are next? Higher, I mean dynamic, parking and food prices on powder days? Pay to get to the front of the line on pow days? The possibilities are endless.

[old goat]

I thought the customer was always right . But then again the definition of success matters. Did the parking system make a meaningful difference to traffic? No. Did the parking system show Palisades that they can implement new revenue streams from things that were previously free? Yes. Maybe reservations for tables at the lodge are next? Higher, I mean dynamic, parking and food prices on powder days? Pay to get to the front of the line on pow days? The possibilities are endless.

Sugar Bowl has had priority lift lines for a fee for years. No one seems to mind, probably because lines aren't usually a problem.

[teledad]

Sugar Bowl has had priority lift lines for a fee for years. No one seems to mind, probably because lines aren't usually a problem.

The fee is also $2-3M for a home at Sugar Bowl plus something like $30K/year in HOA fees, so the number of people who use it are limited.

Northstar might be a better example, they used to sell a "platinum pass" that got you access to a priority lift line for something like $150 over the day ticket price.

Pay to get to the front of the line on pow days?

If you've got the $$$, book a private lesson and use the ski school line all day.

[old goat]

The fee is also $2-3M for a home at Sugar Bowl plus something like $30K/year in HOA fees, so the number of people who use it are limited.

Northstar might be a better example, they used to sell a "platinum pass" that got you access to a priority lift line for something like $150 over the day ticket price.



If you've got the $$$, book a private lesson and use the ski school line all day.

Yeah I forgot, it just for owners. It's preferred parking that anyone can buy.

[PB]

Yeah SB's preferred parking seems pointless. Unless you're among the first 5 in the preferred lot, there's no significant advantage, and if you get there by 8:20 AM you can park in the un-preferred area just as close.

[meter-man]

I thought the customer was always right . But then again the definition of success matters. Did the parking system make a meaningful difference to traffic? No. Did the parking system show Palisades that they can implement new revenue streams from things that were previously free? Yes. Maybe reservations for tables at the lodge are next? Higher, I mean dynamic, parking and food prices on powder days? Pay to get to the front of the line on pow days? The possibilities are endless.

I don't like the parking reservation system for the reasons you listed. Lucky enough not to have had to use the app to book parking either, so I'm sure I missed lots of unpleasant experiences with that.

But are people seriously arguing that traffic was not substantially better on 89 this winter on weekends? I went to PT ~30 days on weekends, always in the morning, and never had a long drive. Maybe one or two days, at most. Last year (granted, a mega snowyear), every single weekend day was a horrific grind and took substantially longer, leaving at the same times.

Leaving from Glenshire and (usually) needed to arrive at the ski area by 7:40 or so, so that's my frame of reference.

Do people really think that traffic on 89 was not substantially better?

All that said, I don't like the reservation system, and the pricing associated with it. They're just getting us ready for requiring payment for every parking space and them all being in a stinky underground parking garage under the waterpark, Vail-style. barf.

[rod9301]

Yeah SB's preferred parking seems pointless. Unless you're among the first 5 in the preferred lot, there's no significant advantage, and if you get there by 8:20 AM you can park in the un-preferred area just as close.

I get there early on weekends, kids are in race teams, and i have preferred parking. Otherwise, it's normally a long walk

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[bodywhomper]

The past 2 winters, my younger teens were slow rollers in the morning. If we were lagging enough, I’d time our arrival for 1230 and snag the SB preferred parking right when it was no longer preferred.