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

[truckeelocal]

Props to the road crews out last night unclogging storm drains.

And props to KOLO yesterday for calling for an earlier change to snow than other forecasters ... weather guys rarely get recognized for their accuracy, only their screwups.

[bonewrenched]

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Welp, there go my plans to lap ch 1 today

That's wild. Hopefully they pump it out before it freezes

[CC_skier]

And props to KOLO yesterday for calling for an earlier change to snow than other forecasters ... weather guys rarely get recognized for their accuracy, only their screwups.

It is puking snow in Carson City right now. I was mentally ready for snow levels to never drop below 7k, so I'm freaking out a bit right now.

[NakedShorts]

Best of luck today moving cement 💪 at least it's only today before we get a break 36 hours of this would have been brutal

[thefrush]

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Welp, there go my plans to lap ch 1 today

[frorider]

We set a skin track in at Luther just now. 34 F, snowing hard, about 5” of skiable pow on top of a 6” saturated layer. It was a trip down memory lane to all my shitty pow days in OR & WA .

[old goat]

" shitty pow days"--oxymoron of the year (and just in time)

[TahoeBC]

Did a preemptive blow off the driveway to clear the first 4” of heavy saturated snow out of the driveway this morning. Discovered my side of the street and the end of my driveway has 4” of decomposed granite on it that washed down from above. Spent forever shoveling that shit up. If the plow driver doesn’t gate my driveway I’m gonna have the berm from hell!!!

Decided to top off my blower gas and my car at the Y, total chaos down there, 50 is closed for the foreseeable future and i barely got back up my street to get home.

Fireplaces are cranking in preparation for the power to go out.

Party time!!

[frorider]

Whitehall evacuated.

Carson Pass temporarily closed, not sure where all the diverted drivers from 50 are going to go.

Happy New Year’s Eve. Let the shitshow begin

[Eastern Sierra Skier]

Kirkwood would like to unveil its new snowmaking pond

[gimpy]

Pushing 3’ at 7.7k top kbury……I’m gonna go ahead and say that this the most snow I’ve ever seen in a 12 hour timeframe……easily 2-4”/hr

[Eastside]

Pushing 3’ at 7.7k top kbury……I’m gonna go ahead and say that this the most snow I’ve ever seen in a 12 hour timeframe……easily 2-4”/hr

It was everything I could do to stop myself from setting a track next to the overflow. Sitting in the valley watching it puke snow sucks. I'll be up there tomorrow in the early morning-but not for fun

[CC_skier]

Did a preemptive blow off the driveway to clear the first 4” of heavy saturated snow out of the driveway this morning. Discovered my side of the street and the end of my driveway has 4” of decomposed granite on it that washed down from above. Spent forever shoveling that shit up. If the plow driver doesn’t gate my driveway I’m gonna have the berm from hell!!!

Decided to top off my blower gas and my car at the Y, total chaos down there, 50 is closed for the foreseeable future and i barely got back up my street to get home.

Fireplaces are cranking in preparation for the power to go out.

Party time!!

50 near Glenbrook had multiple active debris flows last night. Baseball to bowling ball sized boulders funneling down the slope and onto the road in a slush matrix. Took my brain a second to process wtf I was seeing. Nothing quite like seeing the earth moving in your headlights.

[Spats]

Lake Level Report

Just shoveled over 6" of the heaviest cement I've ever moved.
It's still puking 2"+ an hour, lots more up high. Going back and forth between huge flakes and graupel.
If you don't get ahead of it today, you're not going anywhere tomorrow.
Lifts will be completely iced up and avalanche danger will be severe.
Expect late openings tomorrow and few lifts running.

[truckeelocal]

If you don't get ahead of it today, you're not going anywhere tomorrow.

Yep. Just finished digging out. Now setting up to watch the 3:55 PST spectacle that happens above Reykjavik. If you don't know it's worth watching and it doesn't appear to be snowing there (much drinking though hence the somewhat sporadic nature of the warmup).

[El Chupacabra]

Been clearing snow all day since about 11 AM, at 5800' on the Reno side of Mt Rose highway. Changed from rain to snow around 8-9 AM, snowing steadily ever since. Estimating around a foot so far today. It just keeps coming.

Electric went out around noon. NV Energy currently predicting return around 7 pm. Pellet stove is only heat source now, running off batteries, but not bad indoors.

No idea what the roads are like. Mt Rose ski area website says they closed at 3 PM today, don't know why though.

[UrMomsKneePads]

50 near Glenbrook had multiple active debris flows last night. Baseball to bowling ball sized boulders funneling down the slope and onto the road in a slush matrix. Took my brain a second to process wtf I was seeing. Nothing quite like seeing the earth moving in your headlights.

Have a 9:00am flight out of Reno, leaving South Tahoe at 5:00am. Any recommendations for a route, Kingsbury Pass to 395?

[Eastern Sierra Skier]

Have a 9:00am flight out of Reno, leaving South Tahoe at 5:00am. Any recommendations for a route, Kingsbury Pass to 395?

Leave now. Stay at one of the casinos for the night and take their shuttle to the airport in the morning.

[TahoeJ]

Is 6 inches of snow every hour a lot? Wow.

Sounds like Palipne Meadows won’t open until the afternoon tomorrow.

[Spats]

Still puking 2"+ an hour at the lake.
Most of CA and a good chunk of NV has no power.

Have a 9:00am flight out of Reno, leaving South Tahoe at 5:00am. Any recommendations for a route, Kingsbury Pass to 395?

What Eastern Sierra Skier said. 50 is closed over Spooner Summit, so Kingsbury is your only choice. It may not stay open much longer, and it's snowing all the way down to the valley floor. It will take you at least 3 hours to get to Reno in these conditions, likely more.

[old goat]

I've had 8 inches of snow at 6K. In the last 1 1/2. The overall depth is maybe 2 ft today because it's compacting as it falls. Wet and heavy but it seems to be getting lighter. The power has gone out 5 times today, always less than a minute. So far.

[Truckee Joe]

Leave now. Stay at one of the casinos for the night and take their shuttle to the airport in the morning.

Ya that's what I am doing. I like the Atlantis. I Left Truckee this morning when It changed over. Fight out at 5am to Aspen. In a lot of ways not having to drive my car is my favorite part of leaving on an airplane.

[powdork]

89 is currently closed (I’m at the alpine meadows road) supposedly for a slide across the road


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[fomofo]

More bad news as of 6pm...

[old goat]

Ya that's what I am doing. I like the Atlantis. I Left Truckee this morning when It changed over. Fight out at 5am to Aspen. In a lot of ways not having to drive my car is my favorite part of leaving on an airplane.

We had a 5am to Bozeman in a storm. Decided to spend the night in a cheap motel near the Reno airport. Our flight left an hour late after being deiced 3 times. Only flight that got out that day.

Snow has slowed down a lot.