Opinions on boreal?

Boreal is well worth the value , especially in the drought California's going through. The park there is amazing and I'd suggest a squaw/alpine pass for your other pass. It has a late season and some of the best terrain on the west coast.

This past season Boreal had the best jumps in Tahoe for most of the year. Two nice stepovers which were pretty consistently maintained. It is just park... do NOT go there if you want to 'actually ski'. For that Look to Squaw / Alpine.

Always loooks pretty solid. Almost bought a pass out there 5 or 6 years ago. People laugh at the place but if you want to ski park places is dialed and the passes are cheap.

It's not like you can't ski multiple mountains. Obviously don't go there for your big mountain and tree skiing fix but they build some nice park shit.

Boreal is great if you take it for what it is. As others said, I would definitely get the Squaw/Alpine pass if you want to ski anything other than park. I have had both passes for years and the Boreal pass is completely worth it. Love me some quick park laps. On a side note neff land is sick as fuck and I hope they get it setup earlier this year.

I was actually about to post relatively the same question and it seems like boreal is the way to go. Can't pass up $130 student passes. Maybe I'll catch you up there some time.

last year was rough but when the whole mountain is open it can be pretty decent to ski. I get the college pass which is around 100$ and you can ski 9 am to 9pm. Boreal is always the first to put a decent jump line in features in their park. Places like northstar usually wait till December to build up their park. Since boreal is so affordable you can use it as a supplemental pass. Also they have cheap lift tickets too!. a normal pass was raised from last year and is now around 250.

also boreal often gets snow while even squaw gets rain. they may be small but have a higher altitude then many other mountains. I posted a more in depth response in another thread and I wasn't faded- so check it out on google

Let me introduce you to Boreal, guys.


..Boreal is a midwest wonderland surrounded by Western Peaks. It's got maybe 7-800 vertical feet of skiing, but it's enough to get your rocks off even if the park isn't straight going off yet.

And that's the thing that boreal has captured, you go there because you're either learning, only have time to ski in the afternoon/night, and it's right off the freeway, or you're going there because you want to hit one of the best parks in Tahoe.

Last season I didn't even use my Squaw/Alpine pass until maybe January or February. I just hit Boreal all early season and it was great. I'm not really a big park skier, but considering what other mountains had, Boreal strangely enough, had the best snow conditions in Tahoe during that time.

The terrain park is fantastic. They're always changing it up, never letting it go stale, the jibs are interesting and unique, and it's never the same season to season, week to week, or sometimes day to day.



The one issue I can really find with it is that the power seems to go out there a lot. Which can get obnoxious. Other than that, there's no good reason not to get a pass there. And for what, 150 bucks? That's the cheapest pass youll find to almost any mountain anywhere. Worth it, especially on top of another pass.

Also, as far as the Northstar/Kirkwood/Heavenly pass goes... Only get that if you live in Southlake. Northlakers need not apply for that because really, only Northstar is within driving distance from Truckee or Reno. It's an hour to Heavenly on a really good day, and another 35-40 or so to Kirkwood from there if the roads are any good.

Northstar is no better than Boreal, unless that is you really like insane crowds, and Vail Resorts style amenities...

Cheap family mountain, solid park

I love boreal, my home mountain is Alpine and what I usually do is buy a Alpine pass and then a boreal night pass. The night pass is only $120 i think, and its good from 3-9pm. So I used to just shred alpine during the day, then head straight to boreal and cruise the park for 4-5 hours. I thought it was the best gig ever.

Do they still recut their pipe mid day?

I remember that being a thing. Seemed pretty awesome.

if you like park you wont be disappointed.

theabortionatorDo they still recut their pipe mid day?

I remember that being a thing. Seemed pretty awesome.

Depends on the snow conditions.

Boreal loc dog 4 lyfe

Boreal is definitely one of the better tahoe resorts as far as price and park go. I don't know if I would get a pass there, only because its $15 Fridays with a college ID. Its fun to BS around there and do some park, but defs not much as far as actual skiing goes.

I'm just gonna try to work at Nstar or Squaw to get a pass and then just do some Fridays with homies at boreal to bullshit around

RimJobberBoreal is definitely one of the better tahoe resorts as far as price and park go. I don't know if I would get a pass there, only because its $15 Fridays with a college ID. Its fun to BS around there and do some park, but defs not much as far as actual skiing goes.

I'm just gonna try to work at Nstar or Squaw to get a pass and then just do some Fridays with homies at boreal to bullshit around

probably worth at least a 99$ night pass... I mean, for those days where you have to work all day but still want 2 hours of solid exercise, park practice, it doesn't get much better... It's like the most epic gym pass ever.

DingoSeanLet me introduce you to Boreal, guys.


..Boreal is a midwest wonderland surrounded by Western Peaks. It's got maybe 7-800 vertical feet of skiing, but it's enough to get your rocks off even if the park isn't straight going off yet.

And that's the thing that boreal has captured, you go there because you're either learning, only have time to ski in the afternoon/night, and it's right off the freeway, or you're going there because you want to hit one of the best parks in Tahoe.

Last season I didn't even use my Squaw/Alpine pass until maybe January or February. I just hit Boreal all early season and it was great. I'm not really a big park skier, but considering what other mountains had, Boreal strangely enough, had the best snow conditions in Tahoe during that time.

The terrain park is fantastic. They're always changing it up, never letting it go stale, the jibs are interesting and unique, and it's never the same season to season, week to week, or sometimes day to day.



The one issue I can really find with it is that the power seems to go out there a lot. Which can get obnoxious. Other than that, there's no good reason not to get a pass there. And for what, 150 bucks? That's the cheapest pass youll find to almost any mountain anywhere. Worth it, especially on top of another pass.

great post, listen to this guy. boreal is weird cause it's a tiny hill right on donner pass, but they have a great park and it's a chill place

Like Sean said, Boreal is great if it's not your only option and you want to do some night jibbing (can we still use that word?).

get it Boreal is one of my favorite mountains you get a lot of park for pretty cheap and they have the woodward facilities close b. the northstar, kirkwood heavenly pass is pretty good with kirwood having the snowcats and northstar with the parks but all of them are crowded with annoying bay area pricks. so if you don't like crowds and like a solid park get boreal pass

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