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    Quote Originally Posted by neufox47 View Post
    I like playing the game of seeing how much longer the gps says it would take me to get to Palisades when I’m getting off at Soda Springs. It is usually another 40-80 minutes and I know it is usually underatated.


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    Saturday at the mountain that shall remain unnamed. Storm skiing with my kids is my happy place. My 7 year old is getting his first tastes of skiing pow with the big kids. My 10 year old jumps off of everything he can find. We lapped until they kicked us out.

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    When did they kick you out? i've seen them shut down at noon when it gets wet to the top. assuming thats what i'm assuming
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    Quote Originally Posted by powdork View Post
    When did they kick you out? i've seen them shut down at noon when it gets wet to the top. assuming thats what i'm assuming
    Four o'clock. I rarely ski to the bell, but it was getting deeper each lap and my kids were having a blast.

    It was wet, but good.

    Yesterday was really wet. We got a few great untracked runs, but once things tracked out it was pretty nasty. Still a good time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TurxSki View Post
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    Just saw Mt.Rose has increased their "Locals Sunday" tix. Used to be $99, now $129.

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    So pissed yesterday when I got to the window and found this out... woulda went across the street and hiked but I had the gf with.

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    The South Lake Tahoe Police Department (SLTPD), the City of South Lake Tahoe, and officials at Heavenly worked together over the summer to create a plan that would hopefully eliminate the problems of last winter.

    https://southtahoenow.com/story/01/2...round-heavenly
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    Quote Originally Posted by fomofo View Post
    The South Lake Tahoe Police Department (SLTPD), the City of South Lake Tahoe, and officials at Heavenly worked together over the summer to create a plan that would hopefully eliminate the problems of last winter.

    https://southtahoenow.com/story/01/2...round-heavenly
    parking reservations, parking restrictions, but still no plan to improve non-vehicular access to the mountain. until the county creates a more convenient way to get to the base without a car, the car-ing will continue.

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    Quote Originally Posted by emcee View Post
    parking reservations, parking restrictions, but still no plan to improve non-vehicular access to the mountain. until the county creates a more convenient way to get to the base without a car, the car-ing will continue.
    I just don't get it. Utah has had a highly functional bus system in LCC for decades. This is not that hard.

    You need to build a few large parking lots just off 80 in the north and the 50/89 junction in the south. Then buy some buses.

    You are talking about a few tens of millions of upfront capital costs and it would almost certainly MAKE MONEY on an operating basis if run right (maybe 10-15 PCT ROIC?). Even if you ran it subsidized for zero profit, it's just not that expensive.

    No need to build rail or anything else crazy here. Just reduce traffic, pollution, and churn.
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    People are great at spending other people's money.

    One of the big issues in Truckee and North Lake Tahoe is there are not enough CDL bus drivers. Why would someone work at-will in a weather dependent, seasonal business when they can have the relative security of a government job? TART doesn't have enough drivers.

    Where are they going to build these few large parking lots in Truckee?

    Let it snow.

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    I heard second-hand (supposedly a FB post?) Heavenly was running shuttles over the holiday weekend from the community college to the Cali base when parking filled up there. I guess that was a one off?

    PT and Heavenly are two different cups of tea, but they're both at the ends of long run-ins, and more shuttles would be a good thing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tommy Boy View Post
    People are great at spending other people's money.

    One of the big issues in Truckee and North Lake Tahoe is there are not enough CDL bus drivers. Why would someone work at-will in a weather dependent, seasonal business when they can have the relative security of a government job? TART doesn't have enough drivers.

    Where are they going to build these few large parking lots in Truckee?

    Let it snow.
    because I was curious. check this out
    https://www.jobapscloud.com/Placer/s...R2=11641&R3=01

    literally $2000 signing bonus, an additional $1000/mo bonus for working in tahoe over your base $23+/hour and they still can't fill all the openings.

    everyone likes to think all this stuff is easily solved, but the sheer fact it hasn't been since literally the 80s proves it's nowhere near as simple as people like to make it out to be.
    there are so many stakeholders, agencies and even counties involved all with different sets of goals and incentives.

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    My guess is that all mass-transit options are to get other people and their equipment out of their vehicles. What's going to get you or me out of our vehicles ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by truckeelocal View Post
    My guess is that all mass-transit options are to get other people and their equipment out of their vehicles. What's going to get you or me out of our vehicles ?
    A park and ride that runs on a 15min schedule is all it would take for me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by truckeelocal View Post
    My guess is that all mass-transit options are to get other people and their equipment out of their vehicles. What's going to get you or me out of our vehicles ?
    titties and beer, what else?

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    Quote Originally Posted by MashedPotatoes View Post
    hookers and blow, what else?

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    Quote Originally Posted by janky View Post
    Far West U16 race actually was on yesterday at Palisades and the course ended up being a freestyle course by the time the boys did their first run and second runs following the girls. Course on Exhibition was mangled in the wet conditions. It was an insane GS course with so many crashes and kids skiing out. Thankfully my son made it down both runs for a solid 23rd finish. Then, today, we got to Palisades this morning at 7:50am and 10 minutes later they cancelled today's GS race because the course was even more beat up after the 4" of snow last night. Frustrating

    On another note, it was an absolute zoo at Palisades yesterday as SnowMachine alluded to above. I booted up and ended up doing one lap on Exhibition after my son's first run and then I called it. I've seen the upper mountain is closed chaos at the base before but having the Far West race made it worse. Photo of Red Dog Face run at 2:30pm from yesterday:

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    That pict is actually fairly kind. You are missing the one of the upper road that had dirt above KT with a million jerry's.

    Yup, pretty frustrating weekend. When you are annoyed, just be glad you didn't drive from So.Cal. for this race. By the boys 2nd run on Saturday it was a bobsled course w/ holes galore. Congrats to Jnr. Janky for finishing as that was not easy! 5 of the top 10 from the first run crashed. This wasn't just missed gates, but blew up. My son was 6th after first run and fired up. Didn't even make the road in run 2. Pretty bummed. I too took exactly 2 runs all day to shuttle jackets and crap from the top of the course to the bottom.

    Yesterday we got 4th chair on Siberia for some epic braille mashed potatoes. Took 3 runs and decided wildflour cookies and getting home early sounded better. Was missing our 2k extra in elevation as my daughters had a blast at Mammoth on Sunday.

    Good luck Tahoe peeps. See ya in 2 weeks for U14's. I hope it cools off before then.
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    Tahoe '23/'24 - Reserve Now For Best Pricing!!!

    Quote Originally Posted by truckeelocal View Post
    My guess is that all mass-transit options are to get other people and their equipment out of their vehicles. What's going to get you or me out of our vehicles ?
    If it was reliable and frequent I’d prefer to take the bus all the time. Love the bus system in park city, for example (obviously still take the rental car around when skiing LLC / BCC but have also ditched the rental car at the base and taken the bus up the canyons as well).

    Tahoe / Truckee locals and visitors alike have been gaslit into this idea that it’s impossible and not financially viable. It’s total bullshit. Not saying it would be easy but people act like it’s going to Mars or something.

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    https://blog.palisadestahoe.com/oper...nowfall-today/

    New excuse blog. No Headwall, no Sherwood (now I know why they weren't running TLC to the top, so you couldn't see how much snow was back there!).

    Maybe we will just have to settle for hookers and blow.

    Headed to Utah where they are running 21 of 21 lifts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TahoeJ View Post
    If it was reliable and frequent I’d prefer to take the bus all the time. Love the bus system in park city, for example (obviously still take the rental car around when skiing LLC / BCC but have also ditched the rental car at the base and taken the bus up the canyons as well).

    Tahoe / Truckee locals and visitors alike have been gaslit into this idea that it’s impossible and not financially viable. It’s total bullshit. Not saying it would be easy but people act like it’s going to Mars or something.
    ^^^This. It seems like there is a collective action problem with public transit. Resort wants government to pay for it and vice versa. Personally I think the resorts should pay for it but it’s cheaper for them to pay off the politicians. Used to live in Placer county and it’s not like you need a ton of $$$ to peddle some influence.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fomofo View Post
    I heard second-hand (supposedly a FB post?) Heavenly was running shuttles over the holiday weekend from the community college to the Cali base when parking filled up there. I guess that was a one off?
    Heavenly had signs up on Al Tahoe pointing into the CC for parking.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TahoeJ View Post
    If it was reliable and frequent I’d prefer to take the bus all the time.

    Tahoe / Truckee locals and visitors alike have been gaslit into this idea that it’s impossible and not financially viable. It’s total bullshit. Not saying it would be easy but people act like it’s going to Mars or something.
    can’t say I am a fan of the shuttle, maybe I have been gaslit(?) but the most reliable shuttle I can think of is at northstar. I am not a north shore skier but the few times I have gone to northstar it’s a junk show. Park out at castle peak, walk to the pick up, shuttle to the village, 1/2 mile walk through the village, gondola ride and 45 minutes later your on snow. I remember one weekend around 2008 northstar was parking folks at the truckee airport and bussing them in.

    anyone used lake link to get to the mountain? I have seen them running around the south shore a bit. I wonder what the wait times are.

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    Scott Gaffney riding McConkey's waterski's today
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    Mashed potatoes today--that is, my mom's leftover mashed potatoes that weren't that good to begin with, left in the fridge overnight and eaten cold for breakfast. (Actually, the snow wasn't that bad but us old folks don't do well in the fog.)

    As far as getting stuff open--they can't even plow the parking lot at AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mcski View Post
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    I've been on that bus before. Hell, I owned it (limo company).

    Honestly, I think it takes a express lane for the busses to make it worthwhile for folks. Something that provides huge time savings.

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    Quote Originally Posted by South tahoe skier View Post
    can’t say I am a fan of the shuttle, maybe I have been gaslit(?) but the most reliable shuttle I can think of is at northstar. I am not a north shore skier but the few times I have gone to northstar it’s a junk show. Park out at castle peak, walk to the pick up, shuttle to the village, 1/2 mile walk through the village, gondola ride and 45 minutes later your on snow. I remember one weekend around 2008 northstar was parking folks at the truckee airport and bussing them in.

    anyone used lake link to get to the mountain? I have seen them running around the south shore a bit. I wonder what the wait times are.
    We all knew Northstar priorities when they built condos where their parking lot was. That was right around the last time I skied there.

    If I'm not mistaken, they still bus folks from the airport on busy weekends.

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