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SkiBM680
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Me and my freinds were gona go out to tahoe spring break and we wanted to stay on the north shore by squaw and north star. where is a good cheap place to stay thats decently close to the ski areas
Nov 21 2005 8:57PM
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SkiBM680
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Nov 21 2005 9:11PM
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SkiBM680
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bounce
Nov 21 2005 9:33PM
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SteveStepp
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you're an idiot
Nov 21 2005 9:34PM
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rusteezee
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blah blah blah lake tahoe is poop
Nov 21 2005 9:40PM
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alpineplease
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didnt you hear!
Nov 21 2005 10:04PM
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lenzner
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Why is he an idiot? He's simply asking skiers where there are good places to stay which are near ski resorts.

If you don't have a car, I would look for a place in Tahoe City, Truckee, or Kings Beach, and take the TART bus. Northstar and Squaw have accomodations, but those will be more expensive.
Nov 21 2005 10:10PM
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duhamelski
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squaw and northstar are like the two most expensive resorts inall of tahoe. but squaw is the best. i woud find some ghetto ass shack in trukee to stay at if you want cheap
Nov 21 2005 10:11PM
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miss_hevern87
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camp!
Nov 21 2005 10:16PM
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Steazy-E
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truckee
Nov 21 2005 10:19PM
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SIX-SOLDIERS
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yeah dude that place is the shit but if youre gonna go anywhere for spring break go to snowbird

when i went they got 34 inches of snow in one day

it was awesome
Nov 21 2005 10:29PM
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alpineplease
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stay in the collge tahoe cabin
Nov 21 2005 10:53PM
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dlite!
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id just stay in RENo i hav seen spots for 35 dollars a night! get some hookers and your set
Nov 22 2005 1:52AM
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SkiBM680
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^^^ i have already ben to snowbird 2 times and i am going again presedents day so i wanted to mix things up. Also i didnt want to stay actaully at the resort but at like a little hotel in the area. we were gona ski mainly squaw, northstar for the park if the snow sucks, and alpine medows but maybe make a trip to kirkenwood one day
Nov 22 2005 1:05PM
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telestar6
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The cheapest thing to do would probably be to stay at some sleezy hotel in Reno and drive 40 minutes every morning to Northstar. But that would kind of suck with the driving. I think there has to be a cheap hotel in either Tahoe City or Truckee. If you stay in Tahoe City though you are still about a half hour from Northstar but only 10 minutes from Squaw. If you stayed in Truckee you are like 10 minutes from Squaw and 5 from Northstar. So for convenience I'd say stay in Truckee. I just don't know if there is any place cheap there, probably is something. Don't listen to other people, Tahoe is gunna rule about that time. Either it will be dumping snow, last year it snowed 6 feet in 5 days the third week of Msrch, or it will be sunny ans slushy and you can ski the best park in Tahoe at Northstar. Look into South Lake too. Sierra has a better all around mountain than Northtar and just as good of a terrain park.
Nov 22 2005 1:53PM
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SkiBM680
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^ thank you for actually saying something constuctive and helping
Nov 22 2005 2:08PM
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TheStamos
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my closet is beeing rented out for approx $ 37.567304 a night during that time of the season.
Nov 22 2005 2:10PM
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highSPEEDchase
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i would def stay truckee- do a google local lookup for motels in truckee...
Nov 22 2005 2:21PM
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SkiBM680
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^^ does that include a free continental breakfast?

I found a house to rentin tahoe city and its 1200 for a week. I am still looking though
Nov 22 2005 2:37PM
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TheStamos
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yeah, i live above a coffee shop nukka
Nov 22 2005 2:44PM
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SkiBM680
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what about a complimentery mint and newspaper
Nov 22 2005 2:45PM
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TheStamos
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there is a paper machine down there , get your own damn mints. You think im kidding huh
Nov 22 2005 2:46PM
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feezy
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tahoe city is your best bet.
Nov 22 2005 3:58PM
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TheStamos
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HAHA^ no...
Nov 22 2005 3:58PM
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Jooky
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Check this link out:

http://www.granlibakken.com/packages.php?type=lodging

Pretty much the best prices I've found that includes lift tickets to Alpine, Squaw, Northstar, etc.
Nov 22 2005 4:20PM
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extahoenyc
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Try to stay in Lake Forest Glen or Dollar Hill in Tahoe City. Right by squaw, not far from North Star, and you can walk in to the bars in T. City...
really cheap, very trashable, and lots of young people around.
Nov 22 2005 4:35PM
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skoganskier101
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be a man.sleep in your car
Nov 22 2005 4:47PM
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SkiBM680
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^ that would be fun if there werent 5 guys and a bunch of smelly ski socks and clothes packed into the car.

I was looking at pics of mt rose and it looks so sick. there park looks good to
Nov 22 2005 7:48PM
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thatoneguyattyrol
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your the first person I heard to say northstar has a sic park, let alone the best in tahoe.
Nov 22 2005 8:33PM
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SkiBM680
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i was looking at the pics of mt roses park and it actaully looks really nice, like 5 big tables ina row. Can any one that actaully lives there confirm that
Nov 22 2005 11:24PM
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thatoneguyattyrol
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i saw that too, look at their chutes too.
Nov 22 2005 11:39PM
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lenzner
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I can't confirm the park at Mt. Rose, but I can say that the chutes are pretty sick. Those alone wouldn't be worth the trip out to Tahoe though. There is much better terrain on the north shore at Squaw or Alpine, or on the south shore at Kirkwood. Mt. Rose is just a convenient place to go for people that live in Reno or Incline.
Nov 23 2005 3:33AM
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lenzner
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Mt. Rose from Reno:

Click for larger image
Nov 23 2005 3:41AM
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lenzner
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Nov 23 2005 3:43AM
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billybomba
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Check out Tamarack Hotel in Tahoe City. it's pretty cheap - about $39 and is close to Squaw, Alpine, and Northstar (but who cares about Northstar). I stayed there while searching for an apartment last winter. Nice place with good service.

I wouldn't stay in Reno. The drive seems much farther than it is and can be a pain during storms unless you only plan on skiing Mt. Rose, which is a good place as well.

If you aren't too set on the North Tahoe, the South Shore has a bunch of cheap ass motels that you can stay in. Around there is Heavenly, Sierra, and Kirkwood.
Nov 23 2005 3:56AM
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SkiBM680
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Yea now im thinking we spend 4 days north shore and then 3 days south shore so we cando kirkinwood and heavenly to. k wood looks so nice for bc stuff
Nov 23 2005 9:32AM
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SkiBM680
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Is Kirkinwoods bc worth an extra drive south or is squaw and alpine medows good enough
Nov 23 2005 8:27PM
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Ghost82nd
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theyre both fun...but if i were you id check out kwood. its really not that far. i drive 2 hours every weekend from sacramento to tahoe and i absolutely love kirkwood. definately one of the best resorts in tahoe...not too crowded and GREAT terrain
Nov 23 2005 8:34PM
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SkiBM680
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yea sounds good. also i bet squaw gets tracked out so fast
Nov 23 2005 8:44PM
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telestar6
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I know everyone is going to rag on me for saying this but Northstar is actually a very fun place to spend a power day. I know it doesn't have the badass terrain of Squaw, Alpine, or Kirkwood but it also doesn't have the crowds. At those other resort powder days are a fucking rat race by the locals to get to every good stash and track it up. As an outsider it's really tough to know where to go and get good snow before everyone else gets there. Also During storms Alpine and Squaw get a shit ton of wind and usually end up closing all of the high lifts. At Northstar you don't have to worry about any of that. Most of the people who ski Northstar suck at riding or don't even come out on powder days. Which leaves everything for the few good skiers there to have all to themselves. You can get awesome snow a day or two after a storm and on storm days you'll have the resort to yourself. There are some really fun cliffs and windlips you can hit up and there is some amazing steep glade skiing. Also if you cruz over to an area called Hornets Nest there are some of the most fun pillow lines ever and absolutely nobody skis in there.

Oh yeah and it does have the best park in Tahoe. A way better pipe that Squaw and better rails and boxes. Also you can hit a variety of jumps, rails and boxes in one run. At Squaw you have to choose between jumps, the pipe, or rails and boxes because you can't hit all three in one run, at Northstar you can.
Nov 26 2005 3:20PM
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billybomba
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^ he's right about northstar's park. much better than squaw's. squaw's park is super weak and only has a few tables that aren't even built that well. i heard they toned it down quite a bit because of some injuries a couple of seasons ago.

but the terrain at squaw just kills northstar. sure it sucks on powder days but that's only if you follow the crowds around. i like to hit the stuff at squaw that most people tend to overlook. you can ski red dog all day and get nice tracks without a long lift line while everyone's killing each other over KT and granite.
Nov 26 2005 3:47PM
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SkiBM680
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how crowded does heavenly get cuase it looks liek they have a good mix of terain and parks
Nov 26 2005 6:13PM
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thatoneguyattyrol
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i see a lot of northstars park in pictures and videos and it looks to me like its a. box crazy b. ride ons and c. not well maintained.

I hear alpines park is dope, and boreal looks to be the shit this year.
Nov 26 2005 7:47PM
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thatoneguyattyrol
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moving there dec 29 with passes to alpine and boreal, the people ive talked to on here say that is enough and i wont need the nstar pass. Still might though, ill just be 300 dollars poorer and get sierra with it.
Nov 26 2005 7:48PM
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Rapt0r
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The Block
Nov 26 2005 8:02PM
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thatoneguyattyrol
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huh?
Nov 26 2005 8:29PM
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Rapt0r
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its a hotel run by MFM, but it's south lake tahoe. still, it's pretty sick

http://blockattahoe.com/
Nov 26 2005 9:34PM
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SkiBM680
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hahaha one of my freinds who is a ganstar snowboarder wants to stay there realy badley
Nov 26 2005 10:59PM
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AKjibbarailer
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my friend owns a dumpster pretty close to there, I bet he would rent it out
Nov 26 2005 11:32PM
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telestar6
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What Northstar's park is meticulusly maintained. Literally everysingle feature is groomed to perfect nightly. Them the Park Staff goes through and rakes every feature at least twice a day. It is the best maintained park I've ever been to. The only time stuff isn't in good shape is when it gets really warm and the snow is super soft.
Nov 28 2005 3:14PM
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feezy
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you are an idiot.
northstar has one of the best parks ever.
not mammoth quality, but amazing for tahoe.
Nov 28 2005 3:16PM
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