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Movig toTahoe, Alpine or N-star?
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So I'm moving to Tahoe from Colorado in the fall and wanted to know some more about these two places. I've been to Truckee before and loved it, how does Incline Village or Kings Beach compare? Jobwise, nightlife, people, etc...
Also, which mountain holds it down? I ski park, pipe, pow, everything. It looks like N-star has a killer park, and isn't Squaw nearby?
Any info/opinions you guys can give me on these two places would be appreciated, I'm came to colorado three years ago not knowing anyone or what it was like. Now that I've decided to move to tahoe in the fall i'd like to make it easier to figure out where in tahoe I'm heading. Thanks Guys!
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Ski Alpine, if you plan on living in incline village you better have some money.
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I moved from CO to Tahoe this year, and truckee is great if you can find housing because its closer to the city/freeway.
Kings Beach is the most economical place to live.....and the nightlife is better.
Nstar has a big park, set up for boarders, and its fun......but that is ALL you have there.
Alpine has a dope park with anything mountain orientated you want (chutes, cliffs, etc) and NO CROWDS on the weekends.
Squaw is Squaw, sickest mountain I have ever seen but crowded and expensive. Alpine basically gives you everything squaw does.
Boreal rocks for park too.
Personally if you have cash to spend and a lot of time to ski do what I did....
Squaw pass=1799 or....
I got Alpine, Boreal, Nstar/Sierra all for less than that. Good luck mang, look us up when you get here.
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I just moved to CA from Colorado. I have been really happy with Tahoe. I think alpine is the best well rounded mountain. The terrain is fun and the park is pretty sick. Good luck with the move. You are making the right decision staying in North Lake.
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Maybe I ride at a different Alpine Meadows but Alpine is packed on weekends. On saturday, one car pulled into squaw off 89, the rest continued to Alpine. It was bumper to bumper from squaw to alpnine and took about 45 minutes and should be about 5-10
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Every mountain has there day, I would say if you can afford , I would by a Squaw pass and alpine, And ya alpine can get packed and skiied out on fresh days by llike 10:00, but until youve experienced squaw and the carnage that goes down ther e on like a weekend or a powder day, anything seems uncrowded compared to that
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what i meant was no lines at alpine on the weekends.....for instance saturday was a pow day but i never waited in line on summit all day.
scotts chair is a different story, but summit and the park lift never have lines.
If you want fresh snow at alpine you can hike out for it a few days after a storm.
Im considering a squaw midweek for next year, but you will never see me anywhere but alpine on the weekends.
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thanks guys, this helps a lot. N-stars website is pretty impressive and makes their shit look much better than alpine, but I like what i'm hearing about Alpine meadows. So i'm basically thinking kings beach is the place right now, and will get a n-star and an alpine pass, how is the commute from kings beach to each of the mountains?
Where do you guys work/where is a good place to get a job out there, i'll be doing some work for some companies in the industry, but need a normal job out there as well. I'm thinking one where I work later afternoon-evening so I can ski during the day. Any suggestions?
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Try a restuarant or cal-neva and tahoe builtmore in Incline. If you live in reno do valet at a casion and you can work all nights.
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Yeah, not feeling the casino thing - just need a ski shop/park crew/resort job that I can get weekends off, any good shops in the area or park crew advice?
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First off, you want to work weekends. Thats when the tourists are here. Second off if you're looking for a job that you can ski alot, don't get a job in the ski industry
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exactly. having a job at a shop or resort means you wont actaully get to ski that much. Even if you not "feeling" a casino, you'll make a shit ton more money working at one or waiting at a restuarant and you can actaully ski everyday as well. Just something you might want to think about.
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HAHAHA thats great, yeah squaw is never crowded, what was the weather like on sat genious? nothing was crowded this weekend, nothing has been crowded all month.
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Yeah, I know all about not skiing and working in the industry. I need to have weekends open to do work for my job in the industry (holding on snow demos, visit shops, etc...) But thanks for the advice.
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I don't ride squaw, but my point is that 95% of the cars were going to alpine. I consider waiting in a lift line for a half hour, like I did at alpine crowded. Alpine used to be alot less crowded.
It was also very "genious" the way you spelled genius
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Umm.in that case you should probably go ski at Squaw since AM is sssooo crowded, Jea jea DCrew!
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Werd. When they took the pass down to $39 the parking situation went to shit, quick.
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Thank god someone knows what alpine used to be like. All I'm saying is that describing Alpine as having NO CROWDS, its a little over board. Alpine used to have no crowds, the only place left that really doesn't have any crowds is Homewood, but the terrain there is pretty mellow.
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And homewoods park is fucking sketch as hell, i fucking hate it. Snowbomb was soooo scketch
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go to kirkwood they only have 2 skier parkies and they dont do shit.
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KW is sick, I wish it wasn't such a bitch of a drive from north lake.
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ive never waited in line of summit chair or park chair EVER (weekends, pow days, you name it) for more than 10 minutes tops.
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I really need to move my ass to Tahoe..this whole commuting from the bay thing is getting ooooold.
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alpine also used ot not allow snowboarders... haha those were the days
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They also didn't have a park back then.
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^ I was just gonna say that. Back in the day, Kangaroo had gates on it
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Ya, the introduction of snowboarding to Alpine also meant the introduction of terrain features. Go check out the park at Alta or Taos. I'm sure they're siicckk.
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yeah Alta's park is pretty beat...although I'm sure no one cares when the snow is always good and the mountain itself is so damn sick.
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were all snowboarders deep inside.
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edud, nick, ummm.... please dont say that anymore,
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please stop saying ummmm... then you can speak.. let me clarify, ^ but we love skiing so much we feel the need to make it cool like snowboarding .
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gniiks si gnikcuf yag. ew lla wonk taht. pots gnieb dedrater.
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Wow someone must be bored, get back to work on Schaap
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its only 3 o clock how can you be drunk allready... oh wait i forgot who i was talking to.
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um means im thinking, a verry progressive move for me , and yes, clarification was needed
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id say fuck tahoe and northstar...their parks don't compare to these..my buddy was just out there...ID say mammoooooth...but tahoes terrain is pretty sick...their park isn't the greatest..
so basically jay...i have nothing to say and probably nothing to help you with...haaa
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Couple more questions...
Are there any sushi places in truckee?
Where to go for urban?
Thanks
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There sushi by tahoe city. The bomb sushi is down in reno too. There are also tons of urban rails in tahoe and reno.
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there is sushi is truckee!
Java sushi - cheep not the best... pretty americanized if ur into that
soul sushi and bbq - not sure if its around anymore but that place was the bomb.. who woulda guessed u could get some buffalo wings and some unagi... even more americanized obviously
dunno where you would go to find a traditional sushi place... reno prolly
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sweet, nice to know there are some sushi places nearby.
Does truckee get many shows/concert?
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