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

[powdork]

with a view of Jake Tahoe?

[shakyknees]

with a view of Jake Tahoe?

no, it was Ralston. I was wondering about Jake's too.

[Truckee Joe]

my commuting snowmobile was stolen in Truckee between 2-1 and 2-5 while i was away on a trip to Lassen. Stolen from Coldstream trail-head in the Donner State Park. State Park Rangers haven't even called me back so I am looking for any info that leads to its return. I will reward $$$ any info that help return it to me. Most likely stolen on Saturday by kids just above high school age with Old Toyota pickups that were seen joyriding it about that time. .

Its a Blue, Polaris 500 touring sled with no windshield. not worth much but really helps me get in an out

Please help me get this returned. thanks you

[TahoeBC]

Went to Downieville yesterday to do some mountain biking, snapped this photo in the AM, figured someone here might be interested in the current coverage up there

[splitter]

Rank your confidence (1 being low; 10 being the opposite of low) in the corn harvest tomorrow with the wind machine cranking up.

[shakyknees]

Rank your confidence (1 being low; 10 being the opposite of low) in the corn harvest tomorrow with the wind machine cranking up.

85% chance of corn on S aspects 10:30-2:00; I'd say 100% but if there's an inversion tonight (like there was last night) I don't know what to expect. N and E aspects still have some breakable crust.

[splitter]

Copy that. I guess it depends how quick those wind measurers start clipping out too.

Haven’t been on a skinner in a few weeks and considering getting the 8 year old out for his first hike.

Thanks.

[Ottime]

Copy that. I guess it depends how quick those wind measurers start clipping out too.

Haven’t been on a skinner in a few weeks and considering getting the 8 year old out for his first hike.

Thanks.

Report on how that goes much appreciated. My 8 yr old is still in a 230 bsl boot. Want to get him out but have not equipped him yet. A corn harvest sounds perfect.

[splitter]

Report on how that goes much appreciated. My 8 yr old is still in a 230 bsl boot. Want to get him out but have not equipped him yet. A corn harvest sounds perfect.

I will. I’m thinking it might not happen tomorrow but it will be this spring. AKBruin’s daughters escapades inspire him. He’s got an unofficial goal to “beat” her by a year on a couple of her accomplishments. He wants Incline Peak at 9 and Shasta at 11.

He doesn’t understand that AKB is a bigger bad ass than me and that might be a factor. I just have to level up I guess.

[bonewrenched]

You guys got some bad ass kids. Props.

Hoping to find some corn tomorrow at CP - say hi if you see a guy on a split that looks like a trout.

[skier666]

Drove over Donner two hours ago.

No chain control FWIW.







Pumped for piste tomorrow AM

[emcee]

Corn today for sure, was beautiful sunset harvest on 8k W aspect at sundown yesterday

[Wobby]

Nevada delivered in a weird way, as per usual. Seems like the storm track has been just to the northeast of Tahoe, giving parts of the basin some goods.

Any guesses on this locale? Its actually pretty close to Reno.

[mr. hankey]

Mr Hankey!!

I miss you

Awwhh!

Outstanding corn on the CP yesterday on the southerly from 10+ all the way to the river. Cresscent moon is wind f*cked and un skiable. All of the Northerly stuff was drastically wind affected/windboard/ice mix. Corn window was probably prime 11am-2:30 ish.




you can see the rock hard wind textured windboard on the bottom . It was on all of the Northerly aspects:


Plan was to ski half moon, but it was wind scoured with giant footprints raising up. Decided to climb down it and hope it'd be skiable further down since I was already there and the other northerly stuff was bad anyway:


It was hard snow and steep, so I was climbing down backward with heavy 2-3 kicks to get solid footing. Got past the choke & all of the sudden, It felt a bit slippery on one foot. Remember when we used to climb on snow with Steel crampons? then Aluminum ones came out and we thought "wow, they are light!" - here's the downside:


Some people ask me why I use the "Back country ball (TM)" on my poles:
1) The babes
2) great for side hilling/grab down lower w/o switching poles
3) awesome for hand anchors when climbing on hard snow - can punch through hard snow upside down if ya don't have an axe(in most cases)

So next time you see a guy with funny pole thingy's. Laugh, but not as hard.
Unfortunately, my manufacturing site is in Wuhan, so they are currently no longer in production


Ignore the below - stupid auto rotate

[mr. hankey]

Wobby, that looks awesome! Is the location something you can share?

[TurxSki]

...wind f*cked and un skiable... rock hard wind textured windboard on the bottom . It was on all of the Northerly aspects...It was hard snow and steep, so I was climbing down backward with heavy 2-3 kicks to get solid footing. Got past the choke & all of the sudden...

Dude! Hardcore!
It's called recreational for a reason...
"...are we having fun yet?"



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[sruffian]

any info on the snowboarder lifted out of the incline lake area friday? https://www.kolotv.com/content/news/...567686021.html

Hope all is well - shout out to washoe SAR

[gimpy]

Noice Abe!!! Almost did that tour today but needed to be in cell range to try n get Tahoe phish tickets mid morning (unsuccessfully...... anyone got a spare or 2?)

Soooooo.......instead went to ski something I was ogling before last cycle
Skied a bunch down the shady side but it looked horrible today
Top pitch off summit was good but the runout where one would expect the dank.....was not

Also looks much longer from afar
But the south facing home run was legit quality corn

South and southeast giving up the quality harvest. East not there yet


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[MashedPotatoes]

Kirkwood wasn't bad today. I wouldn't say it was good but it definitely wasn't bad. Some nice carveable snow around if you sniffed for it.

Grooming report: Monte's, Zachs, Olympic, Janek and Sentinal were all groomed which I've never seen before. Thumbs up. They also groomed to the top of the Wall just at the end of the ridge before you wrap around behind the cliffs. Never seen that either and there was some really windbuff there just below the top.

Ullr, please come back so I don't have to post any more grooming reports

[Ottime]

Kirkwood wasn't bad today. I wouldn't say it was good but it definitely wasn't bad. Some nice carveable snow around if you sniffed for it.

Grooming report: Monte's, Zachs, Olympic, Janek and Sentinal were all groomed which I've never seen before. Thumbs up. They also groomed to the top of the Wall just at the end of the ridge before you wrap around behind the cliffs. Never seen that either and there was some really windbuff there just below the top.

Ullr, please come back so I don't have to post any more grooming reports

I’m pretty sure this is only your third time not there on a powder day.

Vail is finally grooming like pre Vail. Almost. Need headwaters and Eagle. And about three more off the backside.

EDIT: just re read your post. Are you saying they groomed All The Way to the top? As in lookers right of the Wall?

[MashedPotatoes]

maybe my 4th time. I blame my kids.

it's the area just lookers left of All The Way on the face proper. Where people normally drop in just at the end of ridge to skip most of the traverse track. You know it.

I don't ever remember them grooming Eagle, that would be nice with the sun..

[powdork]

South and southeast giving up the quality harvest. East not there yet

dammit we were there today too. if i had seen your truck amongst the many gapermobiles in the pullout I would have thrown the tube of gold label in there.

i don't usually head up 50 on a saturday. are all of the pullouts always that much of a shitshow? it was fine getting there early but on the way back cars were overflowing into the slow lanes in the the passing zones like it was okay to do so

[bodywhomper]

Brrrrr

[TahoeBC]

Mr Hankey, considered that line but in my head the northeast winds that probably blew a lot of snow there might not be consolidated yet up high, good to know it goes but holy shit down climbing in those spicy conditions and a crampon failure to boot, no thank you!


Powdork, yes the 50 corridor is a shit show most weekends now from the snowline up, causes pretty big traffic issues at times, No Parking signs are meaningless to these folks.

Gimpy Friday I took the spotting scope over for a few runs to Sierra specifically look that zone over, in the end I just didn't feel like risking fighting the bottom with my gimp knee, but here is a look at the zone as of Friday.



Was able to harvest perfect corn yesterday

[~mikey b]

wind gusts approaching 200mph at KW this morning