Conditions Report
It was our time to head North. The North Shore of Tahoe to be precise.
With a warm storm looming for Sunday night into Monday morning, it was looking like a perfect opportunity to do a little night skiing at Boreal and then to shred some pow (hopefully) on Monday at Sugar Bowl.
We had a 5pm arrival at Boreal for some Daylight Savings slush fun. Boreal was perfect with warm temps, soft snow, and a glorious sunset…
Coverage was good…some tasty kickers if you could get enough warp speed….
C’mon kid get up there!
As the lights turned on, we headed for dinner at a cabin near Donner Lake…
At 7am the next morning, we noticed something strange coming down from the sky…SNOW!
Heading up HWY 40 felt a bit like winter albeit sans snowbanks….
The kids were fired up to explore as many chairlifts as possible…
By the time the storm was finished, Sugar Bowl received around 6″ at the summit. As I headed to the top of Mt. Lincoln, a thick cloud refused to go away for most of the day…
So after a few laps, I headed over to Disney but it looked the same up there as well…
However, mid-way down Disney lead to great visibility in the Hourglass and the Nose zone. The snow was thick yet supportable and game for a few laps of fun.
With the viability slowly creeping up the mountain, Crow’s Nest seemed like the next logical choice. After finding some nice pitches on Crow’s Face it was time to try Disney again.
I decided to work the boundary beyond Sugar Bowl run and found some steeper untracked just as the sun popped out…
Yep, I can definitely feel the old snow underneath…
And right on schedule, there goes all the new snow…
A nice reminder to keep your safety zones open in a storm like this one….
At around 1:30pm, the Palisades finally came into view…
I decided to ski a few more laps out on Disney down Sugar Bowl run since it was skiing so well…
The snow was definitely starting to set up big time under the sun…
Certain things were just begging to be slashed…
It was a bit more chunky monkey below….
As the day progressed, so did the visuals…
Now that the summit of Mt. Lincoln had some clearing, I headed over to the 48’s to find some untracked…
The snow was wet but still damn fun to play around on….
Things got a bit more interesting on the lower aspect….
The Palisades definitely need more support from old man Winter…
Disney saying hello at the end of the day…
Did we all have fun? Of course we did…IT SNOWED!
A bit more pics here on my site:
http://www.slaythegnar.com/2014/03/discovering-snow-at-donner-pass-resorts-031014/
