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[old goat]

You would think folks would be less grumpy with the lovely spring weather. Lots of people out at Donner enjoying the "beach". You have to be pretty hammered to play cornhole for hours. And the renters at the STR next door headed down to take a swim and headed back very quickly.

[Powcruzer]

You have to be pretty hammered to play cornhole for hours.

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[P-ville Madman]

Went to Sierra yesterday for closing and had a good time. Got warm and sloppy pretty quickly but west bowl and all that wide open stuff off castle under GV was pretty fun on the old OG jag sharks


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[AZskibum]

Hey, anyone know some safe spots to sleep in the car a reasonable (30 min or so) distance from Palisades? Coming up from Sac to do some double days before the snow melts. I'm used to BLM pullouts in Arizona/Utah/Montana, but have not done this in California. Thanks all. I'll be up Saturday if anyone wants to get a beer and a lap.

[gone2alpine]

AZskibum -

Near downtown Truckee, toward the east end of Donner Pass Road, there's a series of several parking lots. The last one farthest from town has generally been safe for overnights for a couple of years. You will likely see others there.

[dookeyXXX]

There should be some spots on 89 north towards Sierraville.

Also, methinks the trailhead for Pole Creek on 89 just before OV would be okay, as well.

And not sure what the deal is with the TART transit center in Tahoe City is, but I have seen folks posted up there.

Also, Johnson Canyon (not sure if you need a SnoPark there or not).

[heckacali]

Andy, I almost posted that but I felt it shouldn't be forever posted online for the world to see...

[powpig]

Congratulations on the dumbest take on this years thread. I hope you never find out how much vail or alterra would improve mt rose. You’re bitching about the chutes being open ? They didn’t even exist as terrain until relatively recently. I can remember a time i bitched about Alex Cushing. I take it all back now that we have this shitshow called alterra

No, I'm bitching about The Chutes not being open. Far too often! They have been open 20 years, since 2004, you can call that relatively recently if you want. All I can say to anyone who wants to give me flak, you spend a season at Mt Rose and after 50 days on the hill we can talk next April and just maybe we'll see eye to eye a bit more than seems to be the case today.

[claymond]

No, I'm bitching about The Chutes not being open. Far too often! They have been open 20 years, since 2004, you can call that relatively recently if you want. All I can say to anyone who wants to give me flak, you spend a season at Mt Rose and after 50 days on the hill we can talk next April and just maybe we'll see eye to eye a bit more than seems to be the case today.

Yeah had a pass for a year there and it took forever to open the chutes for the season. I asked a patroller and they said the runs themselves had enough snow but a creek at the bottom needed snow to fill in and be crossable. Seems like building a small bridge would be smart...

Also, lines were pretty bad at least that one year

[meepmoop24]

No, I'm bitching about The Chutes not being open. Far too often! They have been open 20 years, since 2004, you can call that relatively recently if you want. All I can say to anyone who wants to give me flak, you spend a season at Mt Rose and after 50 days on the hill we can talk next April and just maybe we'll see eye to eye a bit more than seems to be the case today.

I skied Mt. Rose roughly that much this season and don't have many complaints. I think the longest lift line I waited in was 15 minutes and that was a weekend powder day. At somewhere like Palisades the line would probably be double or triple that.

With regards to the Chutes, did you ever ask patrol about their take? I did, and they told me that the PWL in January was the main cause of the delayed opening. I also asked about what was going on recently and they said that Chuter was having hydraulic issues. They are working on it and hoping to get it open for closing weekend.

[TahoeBC]

I don't share that sentiment. Heavenly is far from my favorite ski area but I can be there in 20 minutes. I also like making turns. Lots of turns. If they keep running chairlifts, I'll buy a pass and ride 'em. I enjoy hiking up and skiing down and never get the amount of time out there as I would like. If I could only do one, the choice is easy.

Is there a ski hill whose management/style of operation that isn't loathed by "locals"?

You access via stagecoach right? Well you might think differently if you had to reserve a parking spot and also pay $20 if you can’t find 3 friends that want to ski on your schedule. There were enough times this year I just wanted to ski a couple hours in the morning and leave, I’m not driving all the way up kingsbury like many of my friends did or get bussed is from the outskirts of town. I like the BC access out of heavenly and Kirkwood but I just got to angry to many times, fuck them and their money grab. I’ll still have a Sierra pass for when I want to hit the resort and use my skin pass on the days I want to hit Fail terrain.

[powpig]

Congratulations on the dumbest take on this years thread. I hope you never find out how much vail or alterra would improve mt rose. You’re bitching about the chutes being open ? They didn’t even exist as terrain until relatively recently. I can remember a time i bitched about Alex Cushing. I take it all back now that we have this shitshow called alterra

PT/Alterra announced in their Operations Blog last week:

We want to ski everything as long as possible........ When it burns out, that’s when we’ll stop skiing it.

I wish Mt Rose had this kinda "shitshow" attitude!

I can only imagine what the response would be if Alterra did what Rose did and closed KT for 11 days (or possibly the rest of the season, we'll see) in mid-April.
If Alterra routinely didn't get KT open til 1 PM or later after snowfall, or sometimes just bag it for entire days, this thread would be 50 pages longer!

[mcski]

You really have no idea lmao. I’d take Rose Mgmt over alterra or fail any day.
Do you evens realize it was sorta shocking when Rose opened the Chutes because it was historically considered unmanageable avy terrain (and people had died poaching it) ? It was great they stepped up and opened it in the first place , so maybe stfu and be grateful the Chutes are even open terrain at all.

Closing KT is not remotely comparable. And when KT is closed it’s for a real reason not a shitshow. Silverado being closed all the time is much more egregious

[Redsmurfer]

Managing the chutes is complex variables such the creek crossing, serious chance for injury when its hard, avalanche control and I am sure staffing. IMO it is powpigs attitude that makes them rush to open on powder days. Many times they bomb the hell out of it and get most of good lines to slide, leaving a shit ton of debris. I personally would like to see them have more restraint, let the snowpack settle and stabilize a bit before throwing bombs and rushing to get it open.

[mcski]

This^

[dookeyXXX]

I went skiing today…

[El Chupacabra]

Managing the chutes is complex variables such the creek crossing, serious chance for injury when its hard, avalanche control and I am sure staffing. IMO it is powpigs attitude that makes them rush to open on powder days. Many times they bomb the hell out of it and get most of good lines to slide, leaving a shit ton of debris. I personally would like to see them have more restraint, let the snowpack settle and stabilize a bit before throwing bombs and rushing to get it open.

Agreed.

[TahoeJ]

You really have no idea lmao. I’d take Rose Mgmt over alterra or fail any day.
Do you evens realize it was sorta shocking when Rose opened the Chutes because it was historically considered unmanageable avy terrain (and people had died poaching it) ? It was great they stepped up and opened it in the first place , so maybe stfu and be grateful the Chutes are even open terrain at all.

Closing KT is not remotely comparable. And when KT is closed it’s for a real reason not a shitshow. Silverado being closed all the time is much more egregious

Nevermind Silverado, it was mid winter and they weren’t even spinning Headwall for weeks even though all of the terrain it services was open. Man, I so miss the days when Alpine and Squaw had to compete against each other.

[Eastside]

You access via stagecoach right? Well you might think differently if you had to reserve a parking spot and also pay $20 if you can’t find 3 friends that want to ski on your schedule. There were enough times this year I just wanted to ski a couple hours in the morning and leave, I’m not driving all the way up kingsbury like many of my friends did or get bussed is from the outskirts of town. I like the BC access out of heavenly and Kirkwood but I just got to angry to many times, fuck them and their money grab. I’ll still have a Sierra pass for when I want to hit the resort and use my skin pass on the days I want to hit Fail terrain.

Yeah. If the Nevada side starts requiring reservations, that will be a giant mess and piss me and everyone in the area off. On that note, I never really saw what the enforcement/penalty was actually like.

Edited to add, I am hoping the reservations don’t happen on the Nevada side for the simple reason there is quite literally no legal on-street parking anywhere. I cannot think of a single public parking space (during winter) on the Nevada side from Stateline to Safeway to Daggett summit.

[janky]

This is usually just laziness IMO. My son ski races and most of the kids when they are in between initial slipping of the course or just done with their first runs will ski to a lodge and not rack their skis. But our background is SL, GS, Super-G, I don't know what other disciplines do.

Question--in the morning all the race skis were base down on the snow, not in racks. To keep the bases cold?

[TahoeBC]

I think parking violations were in the $250 dollar range but reduced to like a $100 and something if you paid within a week. I don’t remember the exact numbers but it’s in that ball park, but possibly up to $100 more than I stated, it’s significant. All lots at Kirkwood will be subject to reservations next year, might be a mix of free and paid parking don’t know the details yet

[powpig]

Managing the chutes is complex variables such the creek crossing, serious chance for injury when its hard, avalanche control and I am sure staffing. IMO it is powpigs attitude that makes them rush to open on powder days. Many times they bomb the hell out of it and get most of good lines to slide, leaving a shit ton of debris. I personally would like to see them have more restraint, let the snowpack settle and stabilize a bit before throwing bombs and rushing to get it open.

Unfortunately I don't think that's an option. I've been told the ski area is tasked with routine blasting so it doesn't go big & natural and avy onto 431. While I have a hard time imagining it could go that big (the Slide road did get buried back in 2017) in any but the most monstrous of storm cycles, I think this decision and arrangement involving NDOT was probably arrived at by those posing the "What if....." question, and no one's gonna be willing to be on the hook and make the call to not bomb, just in case.....

And rush to open on powder days????? Maybe the first few years, definitely none of that since the poach fatality.

[powdork]

Here's an interesting write up that covers much of what you're discussing. I will say it definitely is not shocking they finally opened them. It was always shocking to drive to Reno, see them, and realize they weren't part of the resort.
https://arc.lib.montana.edu/snow-sci...ts/P__8111.pdf

[gone2alpine]

Here's an interesting write up that covers much of what you're discussing. I will say it definitely is not shocking they finally opened them. It was always shocking to drive to Reno, see them, and realize they weren't part of the resort.
https://arc.lib.montana.edu/snow-sci...ts/P__8111.pdf

Excellent share PD! Thanks!

[Core Shot]

What’s the deal with the old red dog towers up between blue and baileys? They didn’t fly themselves up there.
Emigrant or granite upgrade?