Lake Tahoe, CA Backcountry Report: Tripping Out in Castles in the Sky Above Big Blue Report from February 10, 2024 We rolled the dice in Lake Tahoe, CA today. Fox had a plan to go ski a sun-soaked aspect on bluebird day with 60mph east winds. It was clearly a bad plan leading directly to lousy snow in a gorgeous area. I knew the snow wouldn’t be good but knew the views would be so […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | February 11, 2024 1 Comment
Palisades Tahoe, CA, Report: Hucking The Palisades, Mainline Pocket, & Granite Chief Peak in the Sunshine Report from February 8, 2024 Today was a good day. 49″ of snow in the past seven days helped it be so. Nervous, laying on the heated pavement outside the funitel at 8 am. Surrounded by anxious friends. Watching the webcams as ski patrol bombed. “What slid?” “Everything…” But it wasn’t true. The Palisades were good. Owen Leeper and Connery […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | February 8, 2024 0 Comments
Palisades Tahoe, CA Report: Wind-Buff Powder Day on KT-22 With No One Around Report from February 7, 2024 Got up and out on KT-22 at 9am. No lines. Dead Tree. Wasn’t great. I was hoping the big wind of the morning would have blown things in better. Dead Tree skied poorly with old frozen hummocks of snow between wind-blown patches. I went home after one run. Brandon came over and chilled with me […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | February 7, 2024 0 Comments
Palisades Tahoe, CA, Report: Granite Chief Powder, Backflips, Cliff Hucks, & Big Crashes on Legendary Lines Report from February 6, 2024 Today was yet another powder day at Palisades Tahoe, CA. Ski day #56 (#361 since Dec 8, 2022). We got first tram and raced for Granite Chief. The Andy Hays & Nate Kush went for Glory Rock right under the chair and neither quite pulled it off. Nate lost his helmet cam… Owen Leeper and […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | February 6, 2024 0 Comments
Palisades Tahoe, CA, Report: An Unexpectedly Awesome Powder Day Complete With Cliff Hucks & Good Friends Report from February 5, 2023 It rained at the base last night. Quite a bit. So we slept in today. Duane made pancakes. The skiing wasn’t great yesterday so we expected it to have gotten worse with the rain, wet snow, and high winds. We were wrong. Dead wrong. We got out there at 9am and the lineup for KT-22 […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | February 5, 2024 0 Comments
Palisades Tahoe, CA Closes Today Due To Snowfall Rates Of 2-3″ Per Hour, Rising Winds, & Increasing Avalanche Danger Report from February 4, 2024 We got first chair this morning on KT-22 at Palisades Tahoe, CA. Palisades was only reporting 2″ of new snow at 6am but it was snowing 2″ per hour… Just in case we got out early. We went for West Face on the first run and it was still moguly and rough underneath. After that […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | February 4, 2024 0 Comments
Lake Tahoe, CA, Backcountry Report: Hallucinating Above Big Blue in Deep Powder Snow & 15ºF Temps Report from February 3, 2024 Up at 5am. Out by 5:30am. Met up with crew at 6am. Hiking by 6:45am. Summit at 8:30am. The lake was searing my eyes. This place is even more spectacular than I remembered. To think that anything can best a 15ºF, bluebird, 2-foot powder day above Lake Tahoe is hard to imagine… The view hits […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | February 3, 2024 0 Comments
Palisades Tahoe, CA Report: A Sneaky Stormy Powder Day With A Stellar Afternoon Shift Report from February 2, 2024 Yesterday was another sneaky powder day at Palisades Tahoe, CA. They reported another 4″ of snow overnight and it snowed hard all day. We got out first thing and went straight up to Granite Chief. We got in some quality powder runs but we were still hitting the firm snow underneath and it didn’t snow […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | February 3, 2024 0 Comments
Palisades Tahoe, CA, Report: A Sneaker Powder Day With No One Around… Report from February 1, 2023 Today was a sneaker powder day at Palisades Tahoe, CA with no one around… Palisades reported 4″ of new snow on the upper mountain and 0″ at the bottom. Honestly, I wasn’t too inspired by the report, but I rolled outta bed and got to the hill by 8:45 a.m. Noah said the Funitel was […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | February 1, 2024 0 Comments
Alta, UT, Report: Devil’s Castle Opens For The Season & Delivers Elevator & Sneaky Peak Chutes Report from January 30, 2023 Today was my last day in Utah for a while. I wanted to do something memorable and we’d seen that the Devil’s Castle zone had opened at Alta yesterday for the first time this season (East Castle opened today for the first time as well – Baldy Chutes tomorrow?). I’d never skied that zone and […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 30, 2024 0 Comments
Trip Report: Failure in Maybird Couloir in Little Cottonwood Canyon, UT Report from January 29, 2023 This morning we decided to go for a chute we’d never skied in Little Cottonwood Canyon, UT. It has been really hot the past few days so we thought we’d go for corn/slush on a south-facing couloir – Maybird. When we were scoping it at 8am, Martin mentioned that he saw some fierce rumble in […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 29, 2024 0 Comments
Solo Dawn Patrol at Suicide Chute On 11,000′ Mt. Superior, UT, In Powder Snow Report from January 26, 2023 5 a.m. Pitch black and foggy… The forecast was for sun but I couldn’t see a single star. 11,045′ Mt. Superior, UT – “Suicide Chute” Details Summit (actually a notch): 9,900′ Car: 8,400′ Vertical From Car: 1,500′ Vertical skied: 1,500′ Max Pitch: 45º Avg Pitch: 40º Aspect: East Distance: 1.5-miles round trip Time From Car to […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 26, 2024 0 Comments
Sundance, UT, Report: Trying To Keep Up With World Cup Ski Racer & Hometown Hero Steven Nyman Report from January 24, 2023 Yesterday World Cup ski racer Steven Nyman invited me to go ski at his home resort of Sundance, UT. I’d been wanting to ski Sundance for years. We jumped in his big truck and rumbled around the backside of the Wasatch Mountains and into the tight canyon leading up to Sundance. Steven Nyman on The […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 25, 2024 0 Comments
Alta, UT Report: Backflips, Backslaps, & Sunny West Buffler Laps Report from January 18, 2023 I rolled up to Alta ski area, UT at about 10am on Thursday. It didn’t snow overnight but the wind had been ripping when I left at 5:30pm the day before. As I walked through the parking lot I wondered if there’d been enough wind to buff things out. A local skier ripped a 26m […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 20, 2024 0 Comments
Alta, UT Report: The Tounge Mai (Church) Double Drop, Impeccable High Rustler Laps, Gunsight Pure Powder Report from January 17, 2023 Yesterday was a windy, wild, stormy powder day at Alta, Utah. I showed up around 1:30 pm (after a gnarly 1 hour and 45-minute drive from Park City). I went straight to High Rustler and had the best Hi Boy run of my life… Fluffy wind-buff, medium deep powder, top to bottom, full speed. I kept […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 18, 2024 0 Comments
Alta, UT Report: The Bad News Double Drop, High Rustler Wind Buff, Ballroom Powder, Supreme Sunshine, & Babbers Bomber Report from January 16, 2023 Rolled up to Alta ski area, UT at about 10:30am today. Met up with Brandon and we grabbed a fresh powder lap in the sunshine on Supreme then stacked in line for first tracks in the Ballroom. Both were delectable. I ran into Jamie & Benny Blair in the line for the Ballroom and we […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 16, 2024 0 Comments
Deer Valley, UT Report: From -32ºC in Calgary To Chowder Tree Skiing & Meeting Legendary Wayne Wong Report from January 13, 2023 I awoke in Calgary, Canada at Brother Li Homestay at 3am in -32ºC temps yesterday. Drove to rental car place, dropped off car, jumped in Lyft, and rolled into the Calgary airport. After a strong dousing of de-icing fluid, we were off to SLC, UT. Hoped on a bus to my car in the lot […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 14, 2024 0 Comments
BC Hut Trip Report – Day 7 – Following A Wolverine Track Down Sunny Pillows Below a Sun Halo in -15ºF Temps Report from January 11, 2023 On our final day of the BC hut trip we took our time getting out of the house. It was -15ºF outside with a -30ºF wind chill. The sun was out and a stiff wind was blowing. A big crew of us charged up towards the ridge pillows. As we approached, we saw a sweet […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 13, 2024 0 Comments
BC Hut Trip Report – Day 6 – Bubble Bath Powder Skiing in the Sunshine Off The Backside Report from January 10, 2023 Yesterday was a special day. 3,600-vertical-feet 7-miles 6.5-hours RHC talked us into going up and over the ridgeline and dropping into the backside zone. There’s some great tree skiing out there and it’s a completely different type of zone compared to what we have here around the hut. I was game. The only issue was […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 11, 2024 0 Comments
BC Hut Trip Report – Day 5 – One Dry Billowy Powder Run After 6″ of New Snow Report from January 9, 2023 Yesterday I woke up in a foggy snowstorm feeling pretty darned tired. I broke out of the hut with the crew for a down-valley powder lap. The snow was good. The skiing was phenomenal. Dry, billowy, British Columbian powder snow. On the skin track back up I knew it was the right day to roll […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 10, 2024 0 Comments
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