Tahoe '24/'25 - This Thread Shall Not Be Privatized!!

[El Chupacabra]

At 5800' on the Reno side of Mt Rose highway, all snow, no rain. Between 5-10" depending on drifts. Still coming down hard outside.

Weather forecast says snow levels will rise today sometime this morning, so it'll turn to rain here. Need to clear the driveway before that happens.

I'm revising this to 12-15" at my house. Just spent the last 3 hours clearing snow.

Now about 34* outside, snow is getting lighter / graupel esq.

[~mikey b]

heavy weather out Castle Pass and Andesite this morning

[powdork]

I wasn’t suggesting he was wrong. Their reporting is weird. And their snowstake always underscores. And there was an hour+ in between.
Just got back from rubicon. The lower elevations were skiing much better than upper although I didn’t top out. The bottom 4” of the storm scares me


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[~mikey b]

and that is saying something

[SnowMachine]

We are sitting at 2 feet at 7k. East side of Truckee. No rain here at all.

Headed out to clear the driveway again.

Got back from Sugar Bowl 30 minutes ago. Snow was cream cheese, but not wet. At least a foot when I got there at noon and filling through the day. Tracked snow was really choppy. Untracked was fun, but total leg burner snow.

The trip down from SB, after pulling two stuck folks out, was exciting. 80 was pure junk show. Spin outs everywhere. Plows going wrong way. 80 doing 80 things.

[J. Barron DeJong]

Idiot in a Lambo trying to drive in this storm: https://m.facebook.com/reel/57472855...hare_feed_unit

[Verde]

Never thought I could have so much fun skiing off of Red Dog and Resort chair, but soft snow and free refills made me a believer

[SP_7]

The Lambo is fine, it's a Sterrato: https://youtu.be/J5-hUgSiGPY?si=I420Dl2jWvgvx3Aa

He just needs to learn how to drive...

[J. Barron DeJong]

Maybe, but my guess is that they don’t have winter tires on that car. A 285 A/T tire ain’t gonna work out there today.

[SP_7]

That too. But it looked like he really punched it when he took off.

[MashedPotatoes]

I don't remember this story from 2023 at Heavenly:
https://www.sfgate.com/renotahoe/art...y-20163124.php

I don't see their lawsuit succeeding but IANAL. More curious about where this happened on the mountain does anybody know? Creepy just to sink below the snow like that but I wonder how accurate that really is.. Really sucks though, sounds like he was a cool guy and a leader in the deaf community, RIP.

Stay safe out there tomorrow! Yay for legit deep pow finally!!!!

[~mikey b]

ya

be careful tomorrow

don’t trust anything

[LongShortLong]

If it was snorkel pow, I could see that happening. Though probably more of a failure to escape the "hot tub" that seems a feature of snowboarding when the pow is light and deep. Stop in four+ feet of light stuff. Struggle to get going as a knuckle dragger does (it's hard enough with poles and skis). Fall down. Struggle more. Get buried. RIP. IMO immersion death does not require a tree well. Occasionally we get a lot of the light stuff. Sometimes without wind to pack any of it.

I'm a tall guy. One time off a small drop (10 feet?), I found myself standing, upright, under the snow. Fortunately I was also still moving so I kept skiing straight ahead until I came out. Cohee claimed 8 feet on the snowphone that morning - maybe I found his measuring spot. Another time on a tip-dive fall, my head went deep, and i figured I'd better tuck in, keep tumbling and not try to arrest until my head came up. Both times were kinda scary for a few seconds. IMO it's too windy and the snow is too dense for this particular hazard.

[powdork]

I believe that was very near the top of Dipper to the lookers left of the chair between what is now the Dipper Line and Big Dipper. Not somewhere control work would have been a thing at all


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[SP_7]

No power in Alpine this morning. Not sure if the resort is affected.

[powdork]

The web cams are up. Roundhouse, summit and kangaroo are not spinning. There are zero customers.
Just got a notification. First attempt unsuccessful. No timeline for restoration


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[Ottime]

Never thought I could have so much fun skiing off of Red Dog and Resort chair, but soft snow and free refills made me a believer

Don't tell anyone.... it's a secret.

Sitting in KW lot w bombs going off. 22F, snowing, moderate winds and an 11am ETO. Bombs have been very consistent.


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[SP_7]

Utility trucks all over AM, seems like they don't know where the issue is yet.

People standing in line for Roundhouse though. The line for the Funi looks crazy and not even open.

Drove to TC to get gas for the generator and saw the Lambo driving down 89. Most entertainment of the day! lol!

[SP_7]

Power on. Time to ski!

[emcee]

any connoisseurs sample the goods? heard it was mankier than expected but that could just be my buds trolling me

[Eastside]

Man, I had a killer day at Heavenly. I managed to be first into Mott Gate 1 and got probably four laps before anyone really showed up. As expected, everything ripped skiers right but staying on the sides and in the trees was deep and killer. Skiers left stuff off gate 5 was fucking great also.

Fortunately big rigs clogged up 88 because I was on my way to Kirkwood when I turned around and went to Stagecoach. Lots of fresh turns were had.

Also, I fucking hate how people chuck their skis at the bottom of Stagecoach and leave on powder days. If I ran that chair I'd chuck em all in the parking lot.

[El Chupacabra]

Mt Rose opened today around noon, road was closed before then. Highway never opened on the Incline Village side. Only the main side of Rose opened - so if you're not blacked out tomorrow, go get some fresh turns on the slide side.

They reported something like 50" out of C the storm, but it was a wind packed heavy 50". Fun to ski, but dense and tiring snow, with a LOT of wind lips and weird shapes all over the place.

It's 50" of base building snow. Guess we're set for the rest of the season now, just need smaller and lighter density storms going forward.

[dookeyXXX]

Pre-lunch at The Star was pretty sweet.
Managed to find some untracked stashes apres lunch.
Getting hard to keep ‘em secret though as wearing a blue uniform and having 6 kids in red Teams jackets ripping behind you makes for a pretty large target and folks eventually start following you around the hill. Doh!
Down low on the hill got crusty and nanky after 3.
And as mentioned by others, anything tracked out was heavy and chunky.
Tomorrow is gonna be interesting for sure, both in terms of traffic and snow conditions.

[SnowMachine]

emcee, it was a lot of fun out there, minus the crowds. The snow is heavy at lower elevations for sure. Red Dog face turned into a full-on firm mogul field. The higher the better. Buy yeah... kinda Sierra Cement. I guess it all depends upon how picky you are.

[SnowMachine]

Oh, and a ton of the goods up high ripped. Northbowl, Sibo bowl, Sibo Ridge all slid. Definitely a day for a beacon and heads up skiing.