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

[mcski]

Don’t forget the option for group buy organized by ottime

[old goat]

I went out to Rockpile today and when I got to the top I was stopped by the view of all the snow in the Roof. I just stood there a gaped. So big and so smooth, Mostly I just ski and am oblivious; I've been skiing out here for 46 years and I've seen it all many hundreds of times but sometimes it grabs me and I stop and soak it in despite myself.

[bodywhomper]

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Based on the short vid in the hill’s IG page, the middle zone like to have slid down to the rain crust

[lepistoir]

So got recommended a reconstruction with donor graft with Dr Ringnes. Anyone recommend a surgeon for a second or contrasting opinion?

[powdork]

Hell yea SoulSkier and Janky!

Unbelievable winter everything is so fucking fat. Was exhausted this morning after another 6k day, finally grudgingly went out at the crack of noon and skied a chute I could hardly recognize it was so fat with options I’ve never seen before. It’s a special time in Tahoe for sure!!

From a fun tour last week

Awesome video. The whole time i was watching it I thought it was today and couldn't figure out how the doggoe was getting around, cause mine couldn't at all today. Then I saw it wasn't today.

[gaijin]

So got recommended a reconstruction with donor graft with Dr Ringnes. Anyone recommend a surgeon for a second or contrasting opinion?

No, but always be weary as it is a business.

Wish I had gone with a donor graft instead of a patella graft. But whatever— everyone is different.

Oh— and this thread is fucking baller. Keep it up, boys. Stay safe. And beware of rain. Actually— prepare for rain. Rain is going to flood things you didn’t know could be flooded.

Tahoe does this.

[MashedPotatoes]

No way that is current unless it slid in a big way. Last photos in here showed it way more filled in.

Definitively current. Here is Heart from yesterday. I passed, and Powdork, thanks for posting the vids of it getting skied. I study them!



I also checked out Upper Cham and backed off that as well yesterday. Still decent sized aair need to clear the cliff bands and too much cut up turbulence in the runout for me yesterday. I think it was Mogul was saying the wind maybe kept some ridgeline stuff from filling in the way you expect this season. I was satisfied with Once and Tremans, nice to get get those lines again.

Here's Vista looking fat and still unmolested yesterday morning.. Great day yesterday although sun crust and teh thickness came around in the afternoon.


oh and Patrol opened a gate off upper Hell's Delight where you could get into lower cirque and ski some of those cool finger chutes. I think that only happens once a decade or so..

[Mokomahonah]

So got recommended a reconstruction with donor graft with Dr Ringnes. Anyone recommend a surgeon for a second or contrasting opinion?

I saw Doc Ringnes at my ER visit for staph (post surgery). Seemed like a reasonable guy. Dr. Dodds was my surgeon and was good to me (despite the infection). But my injury was just bones. What's the reconstruction for? My brothers doctor recommended he not use a donor and grafted some tendon from somewhere else in his leg for the ACL. Seems like a long recovery for him, but it was also his meniscus. Anyways gim central, JONG.

What a season. Every day I don't ski feels like a waste. Latest picture is from Signal on Monday. Got there a little late and the crust had set up on the main face. Cool hill. Little far from Tahoe tho.

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[old goat]

So got recommended a reconstruction with donor graft with Dr Ringnes. Anyone recommend a surgeon for a second or contrasting opinion?

Dodd at Tahoe Forest. My son dd a med school rotation with him and was imoressed. Same practice as Ringnes though,

[heckacali]

IDK, but good luck getting in to see any doc around here (except for emergency care) in less than 3-6 weeks.
I'm trying to get lined up with a new general practitioner and was scheduled 6 months out. Yeah, that's helpful.
Even when I was trying to see specialists about injuries that needed timely MRIs, it was still 3 weeks out. BS.

[powpig]

I was able to get in to see an Ortho Doc down at Barton in SLT in 2 days back in Feb. Called on a Mon, appt on Wed. Not saying that's how it is now, but if it's urgent, make a couple calls.

[old goat]

OTOH you might wait months or even years before the bill comes in the mail.

[heckacali]

Anybody in Tahoe need to up their snow blowing game?

https://reno.craigslist.org/hvo/d/tr...603279718.html

[mcski]

Well that was unexpected lol

[fomofo]

This obscure Tahoe cabin holds one of the longest sets of data on snowfall in the world, going back to 1878

[powdork]

Anybody in Tahoe need to up their snow blowing game?

https://reno.craigslist.org/hvo/d/tr...603279718.html

I bet someone wants to convert it for camping.

[heckacali]

GOTOS final boss.

[crankplank]

I bet someone wants to convert it for camping.

you can make your own winter camping spots bro, why wouldnt you

i can see the 15 minute youtube video already

[Ottime]

Definitively current. Here is Heart from yesterday. I passed, and Powdork, thanks for posting the vids of it getting skied. I study them!



I also checked out Upper Cham and backed off that as well yesterday. Still decent sized aair need to clear the cliff bands and too much cut up turbulence in the runout for me yesterday. I think it was Mogul was saying the wind maybe kept some ridgeline stuff from filling in the way you expect this season. I was satisfied with Once and Tremans, nice to get get those lines again.

Here's Vista looking fat and still unmolested yesterday morning.. Great day yesterday although sun crust and teh thickness came around in the afternoon.


oh and Patrol opened a gate off upper Hell's Delight where you could get into lower cirque and ski some of those cool finger chutes. I think that only happens once a decade or so..

How is Soul Searcher looking? That is a worthy line to hit up in these conditions. The top might still be wind thin, but I imagine the LZ is fat.

Thanks for the pics. Missing home. Glad to see Heart is still a bit of a bite.

I've never seen that upper gate open, even in big years. We used to call that the Closing Day Lines, cause in a good year, that would be the day to hit them. They would have a wood cut out of a patroller there, to dissuade. I mean, other guys used to to that.

[Ottime]

OH - and all ya all renewing your Pali passes, shoot me a PM if you are interested in helping out a fellow maggot (not me, but someone else) this fall. Can't share details here, but can on PM. And if you are buying new, I can't help you save some money as well.

[lepistoir]

Thanks all for the replies. Yep, ACL. I know about gimp central but wanted local knowledge about docs. Have a date lined up for the surgery that's only 7 weeks after the injury [emoji849] so plenty of time to get a second opinion.

[mloomis99]

Thanks all for the replies. Yep, ACL. I know about gimp central but wanted local knowledge about docs. Have a date lined up for the surgery that's only 7 weeks after the injury [emoji849] so plenty of time to get a second opinion.

May be far but Dr Akizuki in SF is the team ortho for the Giants and did my wife's ACL Feb 1. She was hit from another skier on December 14th at PT on her first day out. He is awesome, takes his time and is a great Doctor and and all around great guy. We got lucky as he was a recommendation from my neighbor. He explained all the options from patella, quad, hamstring and donor. She went with the quad.

[mcski]

I know a lot of people that rave their experience w dr a. Cant go wrong with him

[TahoeJ]

This thread right now… that’s what I’m fucking talking about! Feels like the TGR I originally signed up for.

(Oh and vibes on the knee as well)

[soul_skier]

Hell yea SoulSkier and Janky!

Unbelievable winter everything is so fucking fat. Was exhausted this morning after another 6k day, finally grudgingly went out at the crack of noon and skied a chute I could hardly recognize it was so fat with options I’ve never seen before. It’s a special time in Tahoe for sure!!

From a fun tour last week

This was way cool, seeing some of those zones makes me miss being a south lake skier, that is a hell of a mini traverse in all time conditions! Also sweet seeing doggles being put to good use!