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Is Tahoe on track to have another horrible season?

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pikupfulofsnow
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Current weather and forecasts point towards yes, this year will be another horrible season in Tahoe.
Bums me out, I'm 6 hours away.
Nov 26 2013 5:17PM
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DaewonS
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come ski alta. got dumped on yesterday. some wind loaded areas were torso deep. hopefully getting another foot this weekend.
Jan 10 2014 9:46PM
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Stose
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Nah it will be fine. Tahoe just has late seasons
Jan 10 2014 11:09PM
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tcurle
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Hopefully. Boreal is kicking ass right now though.
Jan 10 2014 11:32PM
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SKI.ING
Posts: 2695 - Karma: 2,535
I know you're just reppin' your home area and stuff, but this can't be used anymore. Sure before these 3 seasons that definitely held true, but I'm done justifying it with that anymore. Just because it will dump in March doesn't mean that the whole season is salvaged. It's not like it dumps then and the season goes into June or July. Tahoe's still awesome, but this is different.
Jan 11 2014 12:02AM
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DR.SHRED
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i agree. the seasons half way over and we dont have a base.
Jan 11 2014 3:28PM
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quixotic
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a few flakes in the air right now... first ones I've seen in weeks.
Jan 11 2014 3:54PM
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Stose
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My home area is Eugene Oregon. Yeah it's different. I totally agree, I'm not trying to justify the season, I'm simply saying that the season will be fine
Jan 11 2014 4:39PM
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Jahoe_Stuyve
Posts: 415 - Karma: 2,506
January is half over. It's constantly above 40 everyday at the resorts and you're trying to say the season is fine? Even at this point a February storm and a march storm still don't do much. Unless you see a storm coming that's gonna sit over us for a month I see no salvaging this season.
Jan 15 2014 2:18PM
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taylornicky
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agreed. we need at least two feet in order to even have a solid base for most of the runs. I'm super bummed that I bought a pass this season.
Jan 15 2014 2:58PM
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juicedrummer11
Posts: 1960 - Karma: 1,331
I remember a couple years back like two days before closing, northstar got one of its bigger storms of the season. then they closed of course so that was nice
Jan 15 2014 3:06PM
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RubberSoul
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what's open at squaw?
Jan 15 2014 3:11PM
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JahFeels
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Mammoth looks the same as it did in late october
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Jan 15 2014 3:15PM
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Bensun
Posts: 480 - Karma: 1,654
serious shit. blew my mind


Jan 15 2014 4:01PM
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AJizzle
Posts: 1882 - Karma: 522
I don't even wanna think about it anymore
Jan 15 2014 4:40PM
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goonsquad
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i blame vail resorts
Jan 15 2014 5:17PM
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RimJobber
Posts: 3313 - Karma: 10,058
Needs to snow. I work at Rose and I'm on hold right now because we cant open slide and we only have like 30% of the runs open. This year is shit. Even last year was better because we got it decent early on and it kinda let us slide through the rest of the year. This year we have nothing
Jan 15 2014 6:14PM
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SkiBum.
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Tahoe is done.

You have nothing in the 15 day extended. Nothing. At. All.

40's and sun for 12+ days straight.

Rough.
Jan 15 2014 7:37PM
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Amarino
Posts: 218 - Karma: 2,417
So far for the next two weeks a high pressure system off the pacific will be keeping moisture away from California. Just like it has been since the storm we got in the beginning of December. Sierra has concerted closing its lifts until we get snow. Unless you're skiing Heavenly or Boreal, you're gonna have a bad time. NASA has some pictures of the drought compared to last season.

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Jan 15 2014 8:24PM
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Ganjasaurus-Rex
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Mt.Rose has had its worst season in over 7 years we havent even opened the other side of our mountain....and the "park" has 4 features.
Jan 15 2014 8:55PM
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LemmiwinksVT
Posts: 156 - Karma: -17
Jesus. and I thought last year was bad...(i moved this past summer)
Jan 15 2014 8:57PM
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HeathR
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It's not even just a lack of snow. It's been so warm you can only blow a little at night.
Jan 15 2014 8:58PM
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AJizzle
Posts: 1882 - Karma: 522
It's like a summer night down in the bay tonight, seriously t shirt and shorts. Fucking sucks.
Jan 15 2014 9:50PM
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Ganjasaurus-Rex
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Exactly
Jan 15 2014 10:37PM
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Karma_Police
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I know we're all bitching about the snowfall and how shitty it is for skiing right now but this drought has far greater ramifications than just a sub par ski season.

I'm scared for fire season (which is pretty much right now, typically in summer months!).


Jan 16 2014 2:05PM
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juicedrummer11
Posts: 1960 - Karma: 1,331
I can't wait! I loved it when all of Reno and Tahoe was blanketed in a fiery ash that you would only see coming from Mordor.  It was so fun to breathe and just be outside in general.  Plus the sun is red so you could look straight at it and it didn't really hurt your eyes but you still got the harmful UV rays.  Good times, good times.
Jan 16 2014 2:11PM
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-benedetto
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Your sarcasism hurts man :|
Jan 16 2014 5:34PM
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Karma_Police
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It fucked mountain bike season too.
How the hell am I supposed to rip in a fucking painters mask.

But yeah, I agree, the air was SUPER fresh.
Jan 17 2014 12:19PM
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juicedrummer11
Posts: 1960 - Karma: 1,331
Yeah and one weekend we had the great idea to go to the lake thinking it wouldn't be as bad up there at elevation. You could barely see to the middle of the lake let alone any of the mountains on the other side. Way worse up there. It was so eerie.
Jan 17 2014 1:16PM
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taylornicky
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My cousin is flying here from New Hampshire next weekend just to go skiing at heavenly....
what a waste of time and money ): I feel bad.
Jan 17 2014 1:30PM
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roddy116
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California seems overall pretty fucked this year.
Jan 17 2014 1:31PM
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broto
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yeah i'm flying out on the 11th to ski heavenly with my buds. fingers crossed for a storm...
Jan 17 2014 6:13PM
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louie.mirags
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most depressing thread on NS
Jan 17 2014 9:54PM
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Heart
Posts: 6156 - Karma: 3,462
From an article I found online -"Snowfall is down 85% compared to last year." Yikes. Come to northern minnesota guys!
Jan 17 2014 9:58PM
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bigbromskier
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tahoe sucks in so many ways right now. all in all, though, if you're at northstar their park is better than parks I grew up skiing back east so that's still good. i'd much rather be lapping gnarshit at squalpine though...but that's literally impossible cause it's all rocks :(
Jan 17 2014 10:10PM
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skiEER
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the inversion is also killing snowmaking efforts. But in all reallity heavenly and north star are better right now then most east coast resorts.
Jan 17 2014 10:15PM
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RimJobber
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Oh yeah. This winter is gonna fuck us over until next year at the minimum.
Lake levels are gonna be low now because of the lack of snow melt. They were already super low so this is gonna kill most of the summer lake activities. Tahoe already docked one of the paddle boats because the water level is too low, so tahoe tourism is gonna take a bash this summer. Also the truckee is gonna be lower because tahoe will be, so the kayaking and white water park downtown are gonna take a hit, the river fest is gonna struggle hardcore because of this. Reno/tahoe tourism is gonna take a beating this summer.
Also like you mentioned, the fire season was shitty last year, and this year is gonna be even drier. Prepare for smoke and ash all summer again. That took a pretty big shot at Reno businesses too because nobody would want to go out. I work at the waterpark and the smoke affected us a ton. We had to still open to try and cover costs and because dumb people would show up. We had to hand out particle masks to the employees because it was so bad.
If the snow doesn't start dropping and dropping heavy, Reno and tahoe are gonna suffer hard in 2014
Jan 19 2014 5:32PM
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kim_jong_ill
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This winter is just fucked up. Up here in northern Canada it's 0•c when it should be -20 and all the snow is melting.
Jan 19 2014 5:37PM
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Davy.Crockett
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oregon sucks dick too, the west is having a ridiculous drought
Jan 19 2014 7:56PM
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250r
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well i dont know if this helps or not but we dont have shit in whistler either...fucking vail has snow then us. kind of different for us, last year was fairly average, but the three before that were crazy...now everyone here is all spoiled and shit. i know several people who got in like 150 days last year, who still haven't been up this year, just riding their bikes instead.
Jan 19 2014 8:08PM
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roddy116
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I wonder whats gonna happen to timberline during the summer then.
Jan 19 2014 10:33PM
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SKI.ING
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I wonder how much losses the Tahoe resorts are looking at right now since they're still operating regularly but not that many people are going up to ski.
Jan 20 2014 3:06PM
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mski
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Yah, Prolly

Utah is blowing it hard 3rd year in a row
Jan 20 2014 3:51PM
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tcurle
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Utah actually has done snow though. Resorts have everything open. Tahoe is dirt.
Jan 20 2014 6:09PM
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Jahoe_Stuyve
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We're all losing jobs. No snow is coming. Temps are getting higher. Fire season is gonna be crazy insane. Just saying now, you might wanna create defensible space around your homes or even apartments. This. Season. Blows.
Jan 21 2014 12:42PM
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RimJobber
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New plan. Quit my job at the resort to start firefighter training so I will be working all summer
Jan 21 2014 1:02PM
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letsgofilm
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This is the dryest winter California has ever had
Jan 21 2014 1:25PM
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quixotic
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all departments at heavenly just got their hours cut except for managers/supervisors. I don't even remember what snow and clouds are anymore. too much sunshine.
Jan 21 2014 8:51PM
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juicedrummer11
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this. i think im gonna be breaking out the golf clubs this weekend.
Jan 21 2014 8:54PM
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HeathR
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Shit sucks. There was nobody at the mountain today. MLK weekend wasn't even crowded at all.
Jan 21 2014 9:08PM
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sugarloaf
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just got their hours cut? shit in squaw hours got cut a few weeks ago and managers gotta take furlough days. this SUCKS
Jan 21 2014 9:11PM
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