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nochaser

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Reno has some good affordable lodging options, lots of casinos and hotels that would make it a 50/50 drive for Heavenly and Northstar.
If you want to ski closer to the North Lake Tahoe locations, there are some places in Truckee. The Hampton in on 267 is convenient. The Inn at Truckee is nice according to some of the people I've talked to in the shop.

http://www.innattruckee.com
Thanks Tricia. I have some free points so my options are Reno/Carson, or CA cities west of Tahoe. I figure it’s a quicker/easier drive to Taho from Nevada than CA. I was wondering if 50 is a highly traveled/maintained freeway and stays open even on snowy days.
 

Tricia

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Thanks Tricia. I have some free points so my options are Reno/Carson, or CA cities west of Tahoe. I figure it’s a quicker/easier drive to Taho from Nevada than CA. I was wondering if 50 is a highly traveled/maintained freeway and stays open even on snowy days.
Easier coming from the east, heading west.
This was posted by CHP - Placerville regarding travelers heading east from Sacaramento/Bay Area


***MORNING UPDATE 2/16/19 at 0955***

US-50 is already backing up. Motorists just don’t want to heed our warnings.
Chain control from Point View to Meyers.
Expect an 8-10 hour trip to South Lake Tahoe, if you are lucky. Snow will continue to fall and CalTrans will continue to hold traffic intermittently for avalanche control. THEY HAVE TO DO THIS TO KEEP YOU ALIVE!

We have been keeping our officers pretty much on double shifts keeping everyone available out there. We have been doing this since yesterday, even if you may not have seen us. We are seeing a situation where our roads cannot handle this amount of traffic in these conditions. Rather than direct traffic in many cases we are having to go rescue people who have put themselves in bad situations by being unprepared. Thank you to CalTrans, EDSO, Fire and all other agencies out there helping to mitigate the issues.

Want to know why it is backing up? Too many people are showing up to chain control completely unprepared. YOU CAN’T BUY CHAINS FROM CALTRANS. Your chains also do no good on the non-drive axle. Locations to buy chains are sparse once you get on the hill.

You have a large snowstorm over several days, add in chain control, intermittent closures for avalanche control, thousands of unprepared motorists, a 3 day weekend, and you get traffic backed up.

THERE ARE NO ALTERNATE ROUTES ON BACK ROADS IF YOU ARE ON 50. STOP TRYING TO FOLLOW GPS OFF OF 50.

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skibob

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I am planning on heading up in a few hours to ski tomorrow. All along I've thought it would be the slowest day of the holiday weekend. But with nobody getting up there yesterday or today to ski, I am worried it might be slammed.
 

raytseng

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I am planning on heading up in a few hours to ski tomorrow. All along I've thought it would be the slowest day of the holiday weekend. But with nobody getting up there yesterday or today to ski, I am worried it might be slammed.
its going to be slammed

blackouts lifted,
free refills and some terrain reserved and not opened.
as well as those that budgetted or bought 2 days of tickets and couldn't make it sat will cash in their credit in Monday
 

Pequenita

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its going to be slammed

blackouts lifted,
free refills and some terrain reserved and not opened.
as well as those that budgetted or bought 2 days of tickets and couldn't make it sat will cash in their credit in Monday

And it’s going to be sunny!
 

SSSdave

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After reading Tricia's post linking to CHP warnings per below, I sent the below email to Sacramento TV station KCRA at Newstips AT kcra.com. If several of we enthusiasts send such to our local TV stations, some may actually send out a crew and that may actually begin to be noticed by some of these apparently significant numbers of unprepared visitors as well as give a whole lot of TV viewers a lot of laughs.

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This was posted by CHP - Placerville regarding travelers heading east from Sacaramento/Bay Area:

Want to know why it is backing up? Too many people are showing up to chain control completely unprepared. YOU CAN’T BUY CHAINS FROM CALTRANS. Your chains also do no good on the non-drive axle. Locations to buy chains are sparse once you get on the hill."

Consider for once, having a TV news crew up at one of these chain control sites interviewing drivers that are unprepared wasting many otherwise prepared driver's time and especially Caltrans and or police, causing dangerous accidents and getting stuck. Asking drivers say:

Why are you unprepared?
 

NZRob

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After reading Tricia's post linking to CHP warnings per below, I sent the below email to Sacramento TV station KCRA at Newstips AT kcra.com. If several of we enthusiasts send such to our local TV stations, some may actually send out a crew and that may actually begin to be noticed by some of these apparently significant numbers of unprepared visitors as well as give a whole lot of TV viewers a lot of laughs.

====================================


This was posted by CHP - Placerville regarding travelers heading east from Sacaramento/Bay Area:

Want to know why it is backing up? Too many people are showing up to chain control completely unprepared. YOU CAN’T BUY CHAINS FROM CALTRANS. Your chains also do no good on the non-drive axle. Locations to buy chains are sparse once you get on the hill."

Consider for once, having a TV news crew up at one of these chain control sites interviewing drivers that are unprepared wasting many otherwise prepared driver's time and especially Caltrans and or police, causing dangerous accidents and getting stuck. Asking drivers say:

Why are you unprepared?

It's somehow comforting to know that muppet-like driving behaviour in winter weather is a global human condition
 

Andy Mink

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Rose was outstanding today. Free refills, no lines, maybe 10-12" of Utah quality snow. I haven't been there for about two weeks and the amount of snow is awesome! We had pretty close to first tracks on several runs. As visibility and glasses fogging joined with falling snow and clouds we called it a day.
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We're going to call this the Slide Lot Stairs Cornice.

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This is the Slide side patio.
 

Andy Mink

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BTW, 431/Mt. Rose Highway was snow covered from 580 all the way to Rose and beyond. Definitely not 2wd with bald tires territory. Everyone behaved and we saw only one care in the bank. I did see a guy in a Jeep Cherokee come up to the intersection at Timberline and 431, stop, then decide he just had to pull out in front of the on coming car instead of waiting 10 seconds. In my rearview mirror I saw him slide into the opposite snow bank, back up, and start down the hill. Patience, people, patience.

@AKMINK and I stopped into @bud heishman's new Snowinds location on the way down. Very nice shop with an attached beer/wine/coffee bar. If you're on the way up or down to Mt. Rose, stop in and say hi. He's running a big Presidents' Day sale through tomorrow on ski clothing.
 

Jtlange

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@Tricia it was great meeting you yesterday too! Due to some unforeseen circumstances I knew fairly quickly after I left the shop I wouldn't be skiing (lost something important, needed to possibly go get it over donner pass, didnt end up needing to) but I got a nice breakfast and took the rose highway to get a glimpse. Sugar bowl was sweet yesterday. I'll come back the next time you get 5 ft of snow... ogsmile
 

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