TAHOE 22/23 -THE YEAR OF THE (t)RAM

[janky]

Silvy tomorrow.

[Ottime]

Nice edit powdork. Tho I'm finally feeling a lot of FOMO. Looks like a killer season. All that coverage AND its cold out.

[powdork]

This sounds like the same slide that was reported as being on Jobs Sister yesterday
https://www.sierraavalanchecenter.or...east-subsummit

[lepistoir]

It actually feels weird that it's not snowing

[CC_skier]

Carson City is open game now. Got back this week from visiting family, saw the coverage and figured that Kings Canyon would be good to go. Sure enough there was 2-3 ft of solid snowpack at the trailhead, and the parking lot was plowed out. Heading up the FS road coverage got incredibly better about a mile up the road. Took the road a bit past the Ash to Kings trailhead, then broke off and followed a ridge to a broad flat table. There was another 800 ft of vert, but daylight was waning. Some cornices had even formed at about 7400 ft.

Ski down was one of the better quality ski days I've had this season. Snow was soft on the north facing side of the ridge, seems like any wind crust that may have been present got faceted with overnight cold temps. Holding to the right aspect, snow was soft down to about 6200 ft when a thin melt-freeze crust showed up. Enough coverage to ski all the way back to the car.

There is nothing better than logging 2k vert and epic views of Job's within a 5 minute drive from the house. If any Carson or Reno locals are around, I'll be at the Kings Canyon trailhead tomorrow morning at about 9ish.

[lepistoir]

Silverado mañana...

[CC_skier]

Slashing turns while looking down on sleepy Carson. Can't beat it.

[mcski]

Silverado mañana...

Gonna be the mother lode of shit shows lol

Hopefully not as bad as the 89 shitshow standstill this evening

[Truckee Joe]

start lining up for the first car now.


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[powdork]

Gonna be the mother lode of shit shows lol

Hopefully not as bad as the 89 shitshow standstill this evening

Took me 2.5 hours from Truckee-Tahoma. 2 hours of that was Pole creek to River Ranch.

[Zhem]

Gonna be the mother lode of shit shows lol

Hopefully not as bad as the 89 shitshow standstill this evening

Agree!! Was thinking of heading up tomorrow but just don’t have the motivation to deal with the crowd…..


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[MashedPotatoes]

Today capped off 4 days of very fine quality skiing for me. I'm sore and tired and happy. East wind affected things a bit last night but seemed like some areas got kinda blown in and bufffed and other zones got a bit scoured. Comet bumps skiing great in the afternoon FWIW.

From earlier today, what a view!

[mcski]

Took me 2.5 hours from Truckee-Tahoma. 2 hours of that was Pole creek to River Ranch.

Samish. Was almost about to bail just past RR and face 267 slog around when it started to move. There were more than a few cares that uturned fit that a couple min earlier. Ouch

[TahoeBC]

Nice HJ5, great to ski close to home! Was this yesterday after the big NE wind?

[splitter]

Slashing turns while looking down on sleepy Carson. Can't beat it.

I won’t be there today, but you’ve piqued my interest. Also plan on looking at Davidson in Virginia City.

[lepistoir]

So where do you go to get the windspeed and direction from yesterday?

There's this: https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/rev/avalanche/
but it cuts off at 1700 hours for some reason and reading direction is really hard on a graph vs a table.

[powdork]

http://weather.kirkwood.com
I imagine there are similar sites for some other resorts but I don't know them

[TahoeBC]

I like this one at the top of chair 6 but it stopped recording over 24 hours ago but has been reliable in the past
https://www.weather.gov/wrh/timeseries?site=KWSIX

[CC_skier]

Nice HJ5, great to ski close to home! Was this yesterday after the big NE wind?

Yeah, top couple hundred feet was wind board, but still skiable. Below that it wind effect was variable, some pockets here and there of wind deposited and wind buff. Some wind drifts in trees were piled up a few feet. But all soft, no wind crust.

[CC_skier]

I won’t be there today, but you’ve piqued my interest. Also plan on looking at Davidson in Virginia City.

Nice. I haven't been up there in a minute, but it does sound like Virginia City is pretty well buried right now.

[old goat]

Go to NWS home page, click on the Tahoe area on the map to get the Reno office, scroll down and click on thumbnail lower left for mountain observations

[powdork]

I like this one at the top of chair 6 but it stopped recording over 24 hours ago but has been reliable in the past
https://www.weather.gov/wrh/timeseries?site=KWSIX

i assume that pulls it's data from the kirkwood site. it too is stuck in the same time frame

[lepistoir]

Go to NWS home page, click on the Tahoe area on the map to get the Reno office, scroll down and click on thumbnail lower left for mountain observations

That's where I was looking around since I remembered something in there. It's a few more steps than clicking the thumbnail, but made it to this: https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/rev/remotedata/textremote.php
Will add to first post.

[old goat]

The mountain top data has always been spotty. I just look at a different mountain.

Generally speaking, when the mountain top data suddenly cuts out, it's pretty windy.

[parkmeister]

Anybody have recent beta on the Mt Rose Chutes? I wonder how badly the Evil E fucked the snow up there.