California/Nevada 2018-19 Tahoe Ski Resorts/Conditions/Meetups Thread....

[John Webb]

the "Heidi trees" are the proper Red Dog Ridge, the one you refer to is the ridge above the East Face/Three Trees area. These are usually some of the nastiest bumps at Squaw (rivaled only those by the Slot entrance),

The entrance to the Slot on past Monday was an unparalleled disaster. Absurd sized bumps, carved out and frozen.
I'm lucky to survive ! Headwall & Sun Bowl were good. Entrance traverse to slot has probably melted now which,thankfully, saves us !

 

[Alexzn]

If they are soft those can be some of the most fun bumps on the mountain! Sometimes they are windblown and miserably icy when the rest of the run is fun but worthy of a look. @Alexzn 's detour is OK but the traverse tracks screw up East Face's nice lines. The bump lines in the Olympic Lady gully are the best! Ski all the way over to Heidi's and you miss that. Everyone goes that way so the steep extension of the gully is often untracked to drop you off at the soft bump gulley. Olympic Lady is the best!

@Pumba glad you enjoyed your time in Tahoe. "I'm so much more of a spoiled bastad than you!" GNAR.

Eric

Yes, but if you go past it, you get to Tom's Tumble, which is a much longer steep pitch and still gets you over to a decent portion of the bumps. Of course those are different sun aspect slopes, so the light and snow conditions vary quite a bit depending on the time of the day. Of course everyone at Squaw is always chasing longer steeper lines... And Yes, I hate traverse lines too, you can actually make turns down that face and if you angle right, you still wont miss the saddle.

 

[Pumba]

@Pumba : any chance you can stop at Sugsr Bowl today? Heading there (gas stop).

Yours,
Spoile D. Bastardo Jr

I wish! I’m back in the rainy Bay Area. Fly back to ny on Sunday. Maybe we’ll see each other in the springtime.

 

[Philpug]

I am at BlueZone until 4 if anyone wants to stop by.

 

[dbostedo]

I am bored and at BlueZone until 4 if anyone wants to stop by.

FIFY?

 

[Mendieta]

Magic day at Sugar Bowl. Warmed up on Judah, shared a run with a beautiful skier (ex racer a couple decades older than me, amazing turns). Low vis up high, but Crow's was beautiful. A little heavy snow but beautiful.

Mid day i get a text from @Tricia , she 's in the house. With a young friend that it was a hoot to (try to) follow. We had a ton of fun. Run of the day was the bowl skiers right from the (crow's) chair, including some of those trees at the bottom. What fun!

 

[Alexzn]

Damn, there is a bunch of snow there again! So tomorrow is going to be wet heavy powder? Probably good snow to take out the FXs...

 

[Mendieta]

Damn, there is a bunch of snow there again! So tomorrow is going to be wet heavy powder? Probably good snow to take out the FXs...

Yes, i think we'll get sierra cement on top of sierra cement. All good!

 

[textrovert]

Drove up to Incline Village tonight.

Crossed Donner Pass at 11pm. It was snowing from 6000' onwards, but no chain control and no slowdown. Zero accumulation all the way at freeways levels. Temps never below 33°F.

Wet dusting for tomorrow, looks like.

I have some errands to run here. So will probably just get the afternoon at Diamond Peak.

 

[Alexzn]

32-31 at Donner pass at midnight. Snow levels supposed to lower during the night. Promising.

 

[textrovert]

About 2" accumulation since we arrived last night.Incline Village (7000' elevation, Currently snowing lightly.

 

[luliski]

It poured in Davis at about 2 am (enough to wake me up). If that makes it to the mountains and it's cold enough, it should be a good dump.

 

[Spnole]

I owe it all to @Fuller. He talked me into it. Great investment!

Why did it take you so long?

 

[Philpug]

Snowing in NW Reno.

 

[Tricia]

Magic day at Sugar Bowl. Warmed up on Judah, shared a run with a beautiful skier (ex racer a couple decades older than me, amazing turns). Low vis up high, but Crow's was beautiful. A little heavy snow but beautiful.

Mid day i get a text from @Tricia , she 's in the house. With a young friend that it was a hoot to (try to) follow. We had a ton of fun. Run of the day was the bowl skiers right from the (crow's) chair, including some of those trees at the bottom. What fun!

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We had some serious fun.
Thanks for meeting up with us.


And yes, Kambria is young and full of energy. She'll try anything. She did a bit of this yesterday

And some of this too

 

[Tricia]

I'm going to ski with @socalgal today. Not sure if we're going to Squaw or Alpine.

 

[CalG]

Suggestions on the best place to buy tire chains between Reno and KW on Monday afternoon?

Looks like it will be a week of snow, and 88/89 are on chains today.

 

[Eleeski]

@CalG When we fly into Reno, Walmart next to the airport (open till midnight) has had a decent selection at a good price to equip the rental car when needed. It is seasonal so I'm not sure when they drop their chain supply.

Eric

 

[luliski]

Suggestions on the best place to buy tire chains between Reno and KW on Monday afternoon?

Looks like it will be a week of snow, and 88/89 are on chains today.

Reno should have options. Any auto supply store there should have them, I would think.

I bought chains at an auto supply store in Auburn (sorry can't remember which one, but it was one of the chain stores-no pun intended) and they told me that I could return them if I didn't use them. So you could possibly do that, if you buy from the right place in Reno and the chain control timing is right.

 

[Philpug]

@CalG When we fly into Reno, Walmart next to the airport (open till midnight) has had a decent selection at a good price to equip the rental car when needed. It is seasonal so I'm not sure when they drop their chain supply.

Eric

Or up on McCarren West. there is a autoZone and O'Rileys right there too.