“I love it when a plan comes together!” – Colonel John “Hannibal” Smith – The “A” Team The 3rd leg of our 17/18 5-week trip was the most ambitious, with 6 resorts in British Columbia and Alberta Canada planned over 12 days. The idea was to drive over 4,000 miles to get the most remote …
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AiRung’s brother and his wife and 2 kids visit us each year from Taiwan starting in late January for an extended ski vacation in Tahoe. They get better and better each year, and now they can ski just about anything so it’s a lot of fun playing the guide and skiing with them. We started …
2017/18 is underway with a slow start, but we have a lofty goal of 12 new resorts this season so we will be very busy in the coming months! Our home resorts in Tahoe had slightly above average snowfall in November which allowed Kirkwood to be almost 100% open by Thanksgiving weekend, but the snow …
This was a record-setting winter in Northern California which received the most rainfall ever recorded since records have been kept. This translated into a LOT of snow and Tahoe got the most snow of any place in North America this season. Our home resort Heavenly received almost twice as much as normal at 639″, obliterating …
Last year we took 4 trips and felt like we overdid it a bit. It didn’t give us much time to actually ski locally in Tahoe, so this year we planned only 2 trips and the second one was pretty ambitious. Over 12 days we would drive up from the Bay Area to Mt. Hood …
We started the season on the Sunday after Thanksgiving this year. Thanksgiving conditions were nice and cold with some decent snow which allowed both Heavenly and Kirkwood to open enough terrain to make it worthwhile. December turned decidedly warmer in Tahoe unfortunately. We had 2 Atmospheric River events with about 10″ of rain at lake …
Wow, what a great ski season we had! I got 48 days total and AiRung got a record 40 days. I remember a period of several weeks where it seems like we grabbed our powder skis every time we went out — always a good thing to have to do! We made good progress toward …
It’s been a busy ski season for us and we just finished our 3rd and 4th trips away from our home Tahoe resorts. We have an aggressive schedule this year with the plan to ski 8 new resorts. So far the plan has worked out perfectly with 6 down, 20 ski days for me and …
Another one of our annual road trips is in the bag. Every year we drive somewhere for skiing starting the day after Christmas. This year we drove to McCall, Idaho to ski 2 new resorts: Brundage and Bogus Basin. Both of these resorts had some of the best conditions in years, snowing right up until …
We’ve had some great skiing so far this season. November’s great start has continued into December with more cold storms. We are now at about 120% of normal snowfall for the year after several large storms hit Tahoe. We’ve been taking advantage of it whenever we can and I’ve got 12-days before Christmas — AiRung …