The Official 19/20 Tahoe Ski Snowboard Thread. Plus bonus Bootfitting Recs!

[PB]

I puckered!

[old goat]

Dookey must be creaming his pants.

[~mikey b]

and Vets is creaming his shants!

[4matic]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CCNPUXxD..._web_copy_link

Eyes up, head steady, hands high. Beautiful form...as always.

[meter-man]

Hell, I even bought a mountain bike...go figure.

666 on wheeeelzzzz? Gonna need pics to believe that one.

[meter-man]

666 on wheeeelzzzz? Gonna need pics to believe that one.

Update: he sent me a pic as proof. Here it is:

[skier666]

That was meant to be private...

[Eastern Sierra Skier]

Just made an appointment with the knee doc to start the wheels for a replacement with the hopes I can get it done whilst being paid during the next lockdown (very travel related relatively high contact business so it seems likely). And I've already reupped to about 3 months of tp, pt and 2 months of food, less if I have to share with the dogs.

edit-yes, the dogs wipe their asses now. It's a covid thing since other dogs are always sticking their noses up there.

Hey dude,
Curious where you’re going for your knee work? I just got mine “tuned up” at Great Basin Ortho in Reno last month. So far I’m pretty stoked on them. Hope it goes well.

[Eastern Sierra Skier]

Out in the Pine Nuts East of Gardnerville on the “Numbers” Fire. Checking out the backside of Heavenly from a different perspective than I usually see it. Fire is looking much better than Monday night.

[powdork]

Hey dude,
Curious where you’re going for your knee work? I just got mine “tuned up” at Great Basin Ortho in Reno last month. So far I’m pretty stoked on them. Hope it goes well.

Tahoe Orthopedics. Got an appointment for a knew knee on the 5th. Hopefully those types of surgeries are still in play.

[TahoeBC]

Watched a huge plane dropping retardant yesterday in the high country, made 3 passes while out there, was smoking big time yesterday, today I don’t see any smoke.

Endless line of cars coming into town today, looks like another busy weekend, I’ve pretty much gone in full lockdown again, only public place I go now is the grocery store.

[Eastern Sierra Skier]

Watched a huge plane dropping retardant yesterday in the high country, made 3 passes while out there, was smoking big time yesterday, today I don’t see any smoke.

That was the VLAT or Very Large Air Tanker. My guess was what you saw was the DC-10 flying out of Sac. Approximate capacity is 10,000 gallons of retardant per drop. Cost per drop with flight time from Sac is roughly $10k.

Here’s a few pics from initial attack on Monday.

Fire was up and running as we drove South from Gardnerville.


395 closed in both directions as the fire was established on both side of the HWY.


Fire making a hard push down on to the houses by Rae Mae. The lights in front of the flames were the last of the residents fleeing.


Tuesday morning firing operation along 395. Compare the flame heights to the engines, which are 10-12 feet tall for perspective. It was a ripper for 24 hrs or so. All quiet now.

[powdork]

Went skiing up on Hawkins Tuesday since I knew it would have a good view of the fire too

The very large orange tanker flew directly over on its way back and forth from sac. It would make multiple drops once on scene though



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[LongShortLong]

VLAT inside tour, 747 variant

[Eastern Sierra Skier]

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/amp/J...e-15399432.php

PC insanity continues to run amok as Mtn near Tahoe has name sanitized.


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[TahoeBC]

This is the one I saw, flight path seemed consistent with to and from Sacramento




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[powdork]

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/amp/J...e-15399432.php

PC insanity continues to run amok as Mtn near Tahoe has name sanitized.

What does Jefferson Davis have to do with California other than vigorously opposing our statehood?
Although to be fair, the peak is a piece of shit deserving of his name. In fact, Jefferson Davis' Chosspile of Shit should be the full name.

[sfskier]

Lake “Tahoe” itself is the most prominent CA example of renaming places and natural features to wipe away the stinking appellation of a racist (and a traitor). The original official name of our dear lake of the sky was Lake Bigler, named in the 1850s for CA’s 3rd governor. During his time as governor he was a virulent anti-Chinese racist, but that’s not what lost him the honor of our lake’s name. No, it was the fact that after leaving the governorship he became an outspoken Confederate sympathizer and argued that CA should secede from the union to join the slave-holding Confederacy. People and maps started using the name Tahoe in the late 1860s or 70s, but the CA legislature didn’t officially change the name to Tahoe til 1945!

[TahoeJ]

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/amp/J...e-15399432.php

PC insanity continues to run amok as Mtn near Tahoe has name sanitized.


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I’m 100% for this. That confederate douchebag never even set foot in California. We’d be better off naming a mountain after the shit I took this morning than him.

[powdrhound]

Tahoe Orthopedics. Got an appointment for a knew knee on the 5th. Hopefully those types of surgeries are still in play.

Hoping your surgeon has his most successful day ever.

[Jay P]

he was a virulent anti-Chinese racist

uhhh based?

[sruffian]

Need an assist. Any Reno / Tahoe mags have a bear canister I could borrow for about a week starting next weekend? USFS and interagency offices are closed to public / not renting them, and all usual sources are backordered (assume this is because of office closures)

[meter-man]

Need an assist. Any Reno / Tahoe mags have a bear canister I could borrow for about a week starting next weekend? USFS and interagency offices are closed to public / not renting them, and all usual sources are backordered (assume this is because of office closures)

Welcome to borrow mine. I'm in Truckee. PM me.

And a hearty fuck you to Jeff Davis and the entire enterprise of owning other human beings.

[teledad]

uhhh based?

In his own words: https://global.oup.com/us/companion....mmigration.pdf

[lepistoir]

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/amp/J...e-15399432.php

PC insanity continues to run amok as Mtn near Tahoe has name sanitized.

Na. We're just copycatting Alaska.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denali...20%22Denali%22.

Anybuddy remember this?

https://www.somethingawful.com/news/...%20with%20tape.

And I know you're just trolling, but you are aware all these places had names already before colonizers changed them, right?