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Official Tahoe Thread

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easiestEC
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I decided to make this because there seems to be a lack of Tahoe information in this forum. so here it is,
the Official Tahoe Thread

anything that has to do with Tahoe goes here; winter OR summer. Discuss weather, mountain conditions, meet ups and hook ups, epic stories, sick ass places, things to do, pretty much ANYTHING!

first off, here are some sites for general information on Tahoe, whether your a local or planning a trip:

North Shore Information http://www.gotahoenorth.com/
South Shore Information http://tahoesouth.com/
Vacation Information http://www.laketahoe.com/home

secondly, here are some links to some of the mountains around the area;

Squaw: http://www.squaw.com/
Alpine Meadows: http://www.skialpine.com/
Northstar: http://www.northstarattahoe.com/
Heavenly: http://www.skiheavenly.com/
Diamond Peak http://www.diamondpeak.com/
Sierra-at-Tahoe: http://www.sierraattahoe.com/
Kirkwood http://www.kirkwood.com/site/
Sugar Bowl http://www.sugarbowl.com/home
Boreal http://www.rideboreal.com/winter/
Mt. Rose http://www.mtrose.com/

Tahoe and the surrounding area is a dope place with some even doper people, with a shit ton of stuff to offer. Whether you're a weekend warrior on the mountain, or a bar hopper down in the basin, this thread is for you.

that is all, shred on fellow shredders.
Apr 10 2012 7:51PM
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easiestEC
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shitty.

I'm moving to Revelstoke
Jan 10 2014 1:35AM
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PacificRimJob
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So happy I didn't spend money on a Full pass this year. Smart move to wait until it actually snowed before I spent anything towards that.

99$ towards a Boreal pass is about all I'd have been willing to spend by now.

Jan 10 2014 11:52AM
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Jahoe_Stuyve
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spent $130 on the boreal college pass and wish i never bought a squaw pass....
Jan 10 2014 2:13PM
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easiestEC
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thats why I work there, even though I'm not actually working yet. still got a pass out of it though
Jan 10 2014 2:15PM
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Chunter
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My decision was whether to buy a Sierra pass for my winter break or go to Jackson Hole for 3 days of skiing with my school's ski club. So glad I'm headed to Jackson on monday for some actual skiing.
Jan 10 2014 6:11PM
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FP_rida
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northstar and heavenly's parks dont suck right now...
Jan 10 2014 7:27PM
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ski.cats
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northstar is good. heavenly is awful. cant even compare. like at all
Jan 10 2014 9:41PM
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easiestEC
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true
Jan 11 2014 4:40AM
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sugarloaf
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solid mix of rain/snow right now on the valley floor. every time i look out the window it's different. snow up top at least....ugh.........i'm getting out of town for a few days. time to find real snow
Jan 11 2014 3:25PM
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FP_rida
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didnt compare, just said it didnt suck. if you think it does, you obviously have never seen a sucky park (think indiana or ohio circa 2002.) shit actualy did suck then, but it was still rad, as heavenlys 3 boot line is still rad even though its not freeway at breck.
Jan 12 2014 12:48PM
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Washow
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went to telluride colorado for a week 3rd ~ 10th

it snowed right as we were leaving. Fuck me
Jan 13 2014 4:41PM
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Washow
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Did anyone see me eat shit at northstar on the 27th? I slipped and landed on the dfd on the bottom of vista and broke 4 ribs

fucking amazing
Jan 13 2014 4:42PM
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taylornicky
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oh shit! i hope you're feeling okay!
at least you aren't missing out on any good snow....
Jan 13 2014 5:31PM
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Campeador
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Feeling dumb for buying the Squaw pass. Oh well, I'm sure I'll at least get the same value as if I had been buying lift tickets before the end of the season. My first winter in Tahoe in years and this is what happens, extremely disappointing.
Jan 15 2014 12:59AM
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RimJobber
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I've been hiking mt rose summit the past couple weeks. Theres some rails set up about 15 minutes hiking in from the rest area. They're pretty hard to find. If anyone is down anytime soon just text me and we can plan on meeting up. Theres probably 10 or so features set up. Decent place for beginners. People who are good at rails probably wont enjoy it because they're kinda short.
775-848-4946. Let me know which ns member you are too
Jan 15 2014 6:06PM
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taylornicky
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callout? just came back from my lunch break driving northbound on 395 in reno, blue subaru wrx with ski stickers on the back and two skis on the top. Pretty sure you saw my ns sticker on my subaru and raced up to me. any luck? we both got off on Moana and I think you went to Reno Mountain Sports.
Hella creepin
Jan 15 2014 6:13PM
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Washow
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Haven't been to squaw this winter except for that opening day. Is it worse than alpine? I should just stick to N* but I can't do park due to 4 broken ribs.

First season where I can go to any big resorts (bought squalpine pass, work at n*, and got free sierra season pass from my school club) and there's an extreme record breaking drought. Fuck me
Jan 22 2014 12:13AM
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Jahoe_Stuyve
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Errl. School. Skateboarding. What my life has come to.

What is going on!?!?
Jan 22 2014 1:28AM
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David6
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Somehow it's actually snowing in SLT right now?!
Jan 23 2014 7:19PM
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quixotic
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We picked up an 1/8th of an inch... the season is saved! it was the storm i've been waiting for.
Jan 23 2014 8:44PM
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ski.cats
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inb4 heavenly reports 20 inches
Jan 23 2014 11:42PM
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goat00
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1" reported... even that one inch has been scattered to nothing. firm parks await, make sure to get your feet down under ya
Jan 24 2014 1:34PM
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goat00
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well, the snow actually helped. kinda nice in ante up these last few days

Jan 25 2014 7:22PM
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quixotic
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From OpenSnow.com. Hopefully some snow is on the way.


Sat. 8 PM Update:

A very interesting day on the models. I wasn't able to see the new runs today until this evening and was nervous the models back tracked after I put out a forecast this morning. It was the opposite today. Remember the Canadian showing 4-5 feet of snow along the crest that we threw out this morning because it was an outlier? Well watch this on the other models today.

Here is the GFS 6z, 12z, and 18z showing increased precip with each run.

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12z

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18z

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So the GFS is up from 12-18 inches along the crest to 2-3 feet. The European is on the same trend today. Here is a look at the 0z and then the 12z runs. The Euro only runs 2 times a day.

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12z

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The Euro is trying to drop 3-5 feet along the crest on the 12z run vs. 12-18 previously on the 0z run. The Canadian which was showing 4-6 feet this morning is then only one that decreased precip into the 3-5 foot range along the crest in line with the Euro.

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We threw out the Canadian this morning with the other models showing only an 1-1.5 inches of liquid vs 5-6 inches. This evening they are all showing 2.5-5 inches of liquid. Not a bad day for trends on the models.

This is the game we will play over the next 4 days until the storm arrives Thursday. We will check the trend each day. Hopefully we keep trending wetter not dryer. I am still VERY cautious about how much precip the models are showing. There is a nice moisture tap and a cold front pushing down from the North which are good ingredients. However, it is rare to get a big storm after this long of a dry spell. It is usually harder to knock down the ridge. The storm on Tuesday may be doing a lot of that though before the jet stream pushes South down the coast.

Keep saying those prayers...BA

Jan 26 2014 10:02AM
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sugarloaf
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I'm extremely wary of opensnow/BA. I'll believe it when I see it.
Jan 26 2014 10:21AM
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HeathR
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Im leaving for a week in Florida on Wednesday. This gives me more faith that it will actually snow. Karma for wishing for the worst season on record because I was recovering from a broken back.
Jan 26 2014 9:22PM
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juicedrummer11
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i went golfing in reno yesterday and it felt like late march to mid april. it was really nice. this week is gonna be in the 60s as well i think so im kind of thinking its like the warm before the storm. hopefully we get a storm with like a 2 ft dump so i can use my new powder skis
Jan 27 2014 12:02AM
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ThaLorax
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I don't know how BA has historically been since there's been no snow for him to forecast, but Joel Gratz (founder of OpenSnow) is pretty goddamn good for Colorado.
Jan 27 2014 1:45AM
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sugarloaf
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I read what BA has to say with a grain of salt. He throws huge, vague numbers out, like his last post. And I really really hope he's right, but like I said, I'll believe it when i see it. I've seen him predict a few huge storms that only delivered inches or nothing. Right now I'm reading his posts as best cast, and NOAA as worst case. I feel like when I first moved here in 2011/12 he was OK but last season he blew it and this year there's been no snow to forecast soooo. But that's just me. Read/believe what you want.
Jan 27 2014 12:01PM
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PacificRimJob
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Bryan's been pretty off the last 3 seasons, if only because they've been filled with crazy anomalies and he keeps having to look at medium range and long range forecasts a week to two weeks out. He does a pretty good job with most of the models, and lets you know when one's looking pretty crazy. Yeah, he's optimistic, and he posts snowfall predictions with higher-end sort of numbers (because that's what the models usually spit out), but if you go back to 2010 and 2011 when he was running TWD he was so on point just about every day.

I blame the really weird winters Tahoe has had the last three years more than Bryan. His predictions are pretty well in line with almost anything you'll get elsewhere.

Besides, I wouldn't ever take any forecast from anybody straight up, especially when they are so dependent on computer models these days. It's the weather. It's still one of the hardest things to predict on this planet. I mean, we can predict the sex of a human in womb 5 months out, but weather? 5 days out is a stretch in some circumstances.

I'm expecting to see half a foot on the hills out of this thing. It won't be the crazy 3 foot storm that the Canadian model is predicting. I mean, he threw that one out as a huge outlier anyways the other day.
Jan 28 2014 10:50PM
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ThaLorax
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even if you take the low end of his forecast it says a foot plus. at this point we should be happy with anything.
Jan 29 2014 12:51AM
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ThaLorax
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that's also why I like joel gtratz's forecasts because he purposely posts lower totals than he actually expects
Jan 29 2014 1:04AM
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PacificRimJob
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Yeah, at 8k... and that's still a maybe.

at 7k we're looking at 8" according to him - which is exactly what everything else is indicating.




...as of right now, though... rain is all I can see.
Jan 29 2014 2:09PM
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ThaLorax
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Well I'm still coming up to crash your house tomorrow so rain would make the drive easier.
Jan 29 2014 2:55PM
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PacificRimJob
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Get up here then, ya dick.
Jan 29 2014 3:26PM
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ThaLorax
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I have to work tonight til 10pm. I already got Saturday covered so I could ski for 4 days on rocks and ice. Back off Bro.
Jan 29 2014 3:29PM
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PacificRimJob
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I will fight you.
Jan 29 2014 4:01PM
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ThaLorax
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Jan 29 2014 4:19PM
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skiEER
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heavenly was pretty good the past few days I was surprised how much there was up top even the tree's had pretty good coverage on the upper half of the mountain.
Jan 31 2014 4:31PM
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easiestEC
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south lake definitely got more snow then north lake. kind of a bummer, but at least we have some white stuff on the ground now
Jan 31 2014 6:56PM
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ThaLorax
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Anybody in the Bay Area (preferably North) want to carpool for a day trip on Monday to catch the best part of this storm? I have a car, I just would prefer to have someone else to ride with and to help bring the gas cost down. I have both the Squalpine and Fail Resorts pass. There will be marijuana and hopefully some cliff hucking of anything opens up.
Feb 7 2014 1:08PM
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quixotic
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2nd run at Kirkwood three days ago. Good thing the shit storm is incoming now to cover up those rocks.

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Feb 7 2014 7:39PM
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ThaLorax
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At least that's an easy fix. No edge contact and the core shot looks clean.
Feb 7 2014 8:07PM
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PacificRimJob
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Yeah forget about basewelding that... just fill it with 2part epoxy and shrug it off.
Feb 7 2014 8:47PM
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quixotic
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healed up!

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Feb 7 2014 9:39PM
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taylornicky
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shiiiiiiiiit
what run?
Feb 8 2014 12:29AM
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jeano
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so much for 16" of fresh... damn you rain
Feb 8 2014 5:41PM
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