TAHOE: LAND OF THE SNOWFLAKES -- 17/18 STOKE

[lepistoir]

This morning was uninspiring with only an inch in kings beach plus maybe 5 on SB tables.
Still went up rose and found nice cold snow on dogshit lake peak. 8" generally so still hitting bottom and plenty of snow snakes but hey, not a bad first day.

Fresh cold snow and bluebird deserves a fresh cold beer. Here's to now.

[gimpy]

Today was the day for low hanging resort fruit but the high el bc is good to go for a bit

[meter-man]

Fuck that felt good! Stoke was overflowing at SB this morning. Many many smiles and sighs of relief.

Sorry no good action shots, but coverage is much improved. Too much fun to stop.

Silver Belt and Sisters didn’t open but Steilhang and Hari Kari did.

All of W face of D was closed due to coverage

DP still uh "thin"


Sisters


Silver Belt from the side


Skier's left on Steilhang (name??)

[LightRanger]

D, you run into my brother on his ginormous XXLs? He sent me a clip of cruising untracked as I sit in the office. (What's new?)

[meter-man]

D, you run into my brother on his ginormous XXLs? He sent me a clip of cruising untracked as I sit in the office. (What's new?)

In the tall-T? Hell yeah.

[Huck Pitueee]

This morning was uninspiring with only an inch in kings beach plus maybe 5 on SB tables.
Still went up rose and found nice cold snow on dogshit lake peak. 8" generally so still hitting bottom and plenty of snow snakes but hey, not a bad first day.

Fresh cold snow and bluebird deserves a fresh cold beer. Here's to now.

Seems like there was more snow on the west side of Rose summit. I hit Rose resort and it seemed like an honest 6 to 8 inches. Lots of wind transport. Wind slab with shooting cracks in the side country up high.

[TurxSki]

Still, went up rose and found nice cold snow on dogshit lake peak...

¿¿Where the what now??
Is that like above and to the right of Around the World on the frontside?
Still finding our way around.

Explored frontside trees today, around Sunset.
Skis bear the scars...but was worth it.
Seemed a bit deeper and lighter on Main side.
"Stiff" pow on Winter Creek side by time we arrived.
It is hella firm underneath.
It is *trying* to snow now.

[Ottime]

Kirkwood was excellent today. That 6-8” did well bonding to the layer below in most spots. Sentinel to start and did not feel bottom. Broke trail to Pali for Patrol so they could flip the signs. A few off 10 and then 10th chair on 4. Super fun show. I’d share pics, but it was too good.

[Nevada29er]

Mega storm 2018!!!

Snow in protected areas was quite good today. Anything exposed to the wind was scratch.

[powdrhound]

Kirkwood was excellent today.

I agree.

[Huck Pitueee]

Interesting. What is the criteria for an unoccupied house and how do they determine if the house is unoccupied?
Towns and school districts love unoccupied houses of course as well as short term rentals. The unoccupied houses generate taxes without requiring services and the short term rentals generate TOT in addition to property taxes and require fewer services--no school but still generate waste, use roads, water, etc.

From the Sierra Sun--$15000 wine theft from Incline Raley's. Walked out of the store with 55 bottles without paying. Picture included. Looks like someone we might know?
http://www.sierrasun.com/news/allege...cline-village/

My workmate told me last week. Never trust anyone who wears a vest. Proof.

[mcski]

The article states he stole 55 bottles but the ones they listed are not near the 272 avg he would need to get to 15000. I smell a conspiracy

[MashedPotatoes]

best day of the season so far! (also only day of the season so far but who's counting

[~mikey b]

NWS Reno calling for lake effect snow tonight for Minden, Gardnerville, Carson City, Stateline, SLT.

[MTT]

NWS Reno calling for lake effect snow tonight for Minden, Gardnerville, Carson City, Stateline, SLT.

It's snowing pretty good in Verdi. No idea if that means anything for the ski area's

[~mikey b]

ski area’s what?

[gnarbro365]

Wow...Reno's forecast updates have been crazy tonight...

Ok, this is getting intense, as in very heavy snowfall rates in
places. In all seriousness, very heavy snow is falling in bands
southeast of Lake Tahoe into Douglas, Alpine and southwest Lyon
Counties. Snowfall rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour are common,
with insane rates of 4 to 5 inches per hour being observed at the
Heavenly Ski Area (off their snow stake cam).

This is all occurring in a small area of deformation in the
northeast quad of the upper low. This will not last long (the next
2-4 hours), but it is already doing much more than we anticipated.
Will be issuing another update to better focus on these areas and
make it more widespread. Expect 1 to 4 inches in this band with
locally higher amounts. A foot or more is possible southeast of
the lake where there is considerable lake enhancement of that
band. In fact, Heavenly has already picked up close to 6 inches in
the past 100 minutes!

[MakersTeleMark]

#leavenow

[emcee]

Join our kirkwood women's march tomorrow

[LightRanger]

Chuckle at "piste-off." Clever.

[nickwm21]

SMF -> Truckee: 5 hours. . .

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[neufox47]

SMF -> Truckee: 5 hours. . .

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Damn. Thats nuts. My brother said 80 was a parking lot at midnight.

[gimpy]

It was lake effect dumping like I havnt seen in awhile. We tried to go to rr earth show last night but singer has flu so they cancelled show. The drive back home was epic clusterfuck w people unable to negotiate any hills on tramway and the cops just sending em to boulder lot. They are gone now so the tow truck driver musta had a busy night. The cloud is still parked atop heave above 8.5k so not sure if still snowing up there. All aboard the train to blow town!!!!

[TahoeJ]

11 inches at Heavenly! That’s some crazy lake effect.

[rod9301]

This morning

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