Any tips for a successful day at Mt Rose?
Check the website and look at the cameras, wind, and trail map first. The Main Lodge side offers more greens and blues if that is a consideration, though you can get back and forth easily assuming the two main lifts aren't on wind hold. The Winters Creek side offers only blues and blacks so if you or anyone with you is a solid green you'll want to be on the main side or it'll be difficult getting back down the hill. The Washoe Zephyr lift spins at 8:30 but only for season pass holders. All other, plus WZ, open at 9 for everyone.
The conditions report is usually up by 7am. What's groomed or not usually comes later but you can pretty much count on most, if not all, blues and greens to be groomed unless there was snow overnight. If you have to buy a ticket you can get it at either the Winters Creek or main lodge side. Washoe Zephyr on the Winters Creek side and Northwest on the main side go to the top; you can hop back and forth between sides from there. The Chutes are for real. The ones on the edges are easiest but the ones in the middle carry potentially significant consequences if you take a fall. Trust me on that one.
If you're a solid double blue skier and the skies are clear head over to the top of Upper Ramseys as there's a good view of Tahoe from there. Northwest chair, get off to the right, take the first left. Follow the traverse to the end and take a peak.
Otherwise, the food is good and not too expensive. Get there early for best parking. We usually try and get there by 8 on a weekend day then sit in the car and finish our coffee or just hang out in the lodge. I'll let you know if we head up on Sunday.
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@Philpug, any other thoughts on skiing Rose for the first timer?
