Homewood Cat Skiing

[tahoe420]

Wow! Homewood Mountain Resort will be offering guided cat skiing this season.
This will be Tahoe's only cat skiing access. This will add 860 ft. of vert.
bringing Homewood up to 2510 vert. so they say. Now this will only
cost $399 per day. Passholders save $100. If you have ever hiked up
to Ellis Peak (40 min tops) you will get a great view and some pretty flat
meadows to schlog across. Interesting concept. Poor Homewood, it must
be tough being owned by a greedy development company who cares less
about skiing and only building a crappy cookie cutter unoccupied village.
They have some fairly good managers who haven't figured out that JMA
sucks just as much as K$L and Squaw. Ski areas are for skiing silly rabbit.

[pajamas]

wow. kind of pathetic just to access Ellis.

[Sutter]

This will be Tahoe's only cat skiing access.

This is not true.

Ask me, 666, Mild Bill, SSD, Dave P, SPC, and about 8 other guys how we know. Hopefully you don't get stranded in the wilderness for 7 hours with a guide who didn't have a sat phone when the cat breaks down.

[TahoeJ]

Is Pacific Crest Snowcats still in business? I haven't really heard great things in general which is why I ask. ^^ I assume that's who your bad experience was with? Or the Kirkwood cats?

Either way, that makes at least two other cat operations.

[Sutter]

Is Pacific Crest Snowcats still in business? I haven't really heard great things in general which is why I ask. ^^ I assume that's who your bad experience was with?

Out of respect to the operator I'll decline on commenting. Is PCS out of business now? because that would definitely make sense...........

[tahoe420]

I guess I should have said the only cat skiing "in the Tahoe basin".
I may be wrong. dblatto tell us more. Yes, it is pathetic too.
PCS is still in business, they even got a few days in last year.

[mcski]

Anyone know the dude off Cathedral that has a couple ancient Cats in his driveway? Maybe he could offer some retro cat skiing at granny bakken

[LightRanger]

Basich accesses his Area 241 property near Kingvale with a cat. Give him a ring.

[tahoe420]

Anyone know the dude off Cathedral that has a couple ancient Cats in his driveway? Maybe he could offer some retro cat skiing at granny bakken

I think the guy's name is "Scoop" www.tahoenordicsar.com

Granlibakken had some top level ski jumping back in the day (1930's)

[Shredhead]

PCS offered me a seat on the "axillary cat" a few years ago. What is the axillary cat? "Well, it's an older cat and it's kind of slow".
I took a pass because Silvy was opening for the first time that season. Probably a good thing.

[Ottime]

This is not true.

Ask me, 666, Mild Bill, SSD, Dave P, SPC, and about 8 other guys how we know. Hopefully you don't get stranded in the wilderness for 7 hours with a guide who didn't have a sat phone when the cat breaks down.

Its not really cat skiing if you are not skiing. And not catting. Do you want your old skins back?

[Dhelihiker]

PCS offered me a seat on the "axillary cat" a few years ago. What is the axillary cat? "Well, it's an older cat and it's kind of slow".
I took a pass because Silvy was opening for the first time that season. Probably a good thing.

The owner is a one of the coolest peeps I know and he doesn't exactly make millions running that op. Cat skiing in general is slow boring en devour. Its kind of lame to talk shit when you don't seem to have a frame of reference.

[snapt]

The owner is a one of the coolest peeps I know and he doesn't exactly make millions running that op. Cat skiing in general is slow boring en devour. Its kind of lame to talk shit when you don't seem to have a frame of reference.

Tahoe snow isnt the easiest to run a cat op in either I would think. Even though I got slid on and taken for a ride with PCS I'd go again if conditions were good. Dave pushed me to the end of season trying to get me into a primo snow day, didn't quite work out but he genuinely cared about trying to get us the best snow/experience. Robin was fun to ski with too.

[Shredhead]

The owner is a one of the coolest peeps I know and he doesn't exactly make millions running that op. Cat skiing in general is slow boring en devour. Its kind of lame to talk shit when you don't seem to have a frame of reference.

I've spent enough of time in cats and helis, to know that cat are slow. But when Dave qualified that this cat was especially slow. I knew I probably didn't want to be in it, since I had options.
He seemed like a nice guy and he gave me the straight dope. My bad, if it seemed like I was disparaging him.

[Ottime]

So. Who has booked their Homewood cat trip already. Given the option of an easy skin or inhaling diesal, I choose fossil fuel every time.

Now if that car would take me into Desolation with a cache of gear, food and beer, then we would talking.