For the past 2 years we have had to wait until mid December to get any real skiing. I saw a webcam grab from Kirkwood 2 years ago on this day that showed brown grass and very little snow. Last year was even worse. Looks like our luck (or the weather at least!) has changed, …
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This is the end of the season for us so it’s time to look back and summarize. Despite the lack of natural snowfall in California we managed 27 total days, and 17 were in our home state. We knocked off 9 resorts this season — a new record. June Mountain in California was great despite …
This is the 2nd to the last weekend for us skiing in Tahoe. Kirkwood is saying they will be operating on a “day to day” basis but probably won’t make it to next weekend, and Heavenly’s last day will be April 19th. Conditions were actually pretty good at Kirkwood due to the 28″ of fresh …
We just got back from our biggest trip as far as knocking off new resorts. By the numbers: 4 new resorts: Brian Head, Telluride, Purgatory, and Arizona Snowbowl 8 days, 7 nights 2,402 miles driven. 6 states covered: CA, NV, UT, CO, NM, and AZ We had been trying to plan this trip starting 2 …
We had been planning to ski in Idaho the week of President’s day, but in early February it rained up to a pretty high elevation there and then got cold and froze into ice, so we decided to alter our plan to ski one of the last 2 resorts on our list in California – June …
Yes, we finally got to experience the heart of ski culture at Alta after somehow avoiding it for the past 11 seasons of going to Park City. We booked a last minute trip to Salt Lake City and stayed over in Park City at the base of The Canyons. AiRung’s family from Taiwan were with …
Once again, Tahoe was having a late start to the season with lots of rain and spotty snowfall, in spite of the torrential rains we got in the Bay Area. So in late November we decided to hedge our Christmas bets by booking a trip to Colorado. I skied 2 days in early December at …
After 2 weekends of camping with the new truck camper, it was time to get back up to Tahoe to check things and turn on the sprinklers for summer. Alpine Meadows was still open, so I decided to get one more day in. Both Summit Six and Roundhouse were open with a lot of bowl …
This was our last weekend of skiing for the 2013/14 season. I ended up with 32-days and AiRung got 25. Not too bad for a “bad” snow year because it was actually slightly above average for us, and I could only ski on weekends and on dedicated ski trips due to my job. The season …
Did this really happen? A couple of weeks ago we thought the ski season was about over, but better late than never, a series of storms dropped several feet of snow in Tahoe. We skied both March 29th and 30th at Kirkwood. Saturday night it snowed 18″ at Kirkwood, and Sunday was the best day …