Industry News
The opening of lifts at Palisades Tahoe, California, will be delayed today as crews continue to prepare the mountain following yesterday’s tragic avalanche and subsequent resort closure. KT-22 will remain closed for the foreseeable future while the avalanche debris is cleared.
OPERATIONS UPDATE: DELAYED OPENINGS TODAY; KT-22 CLOSED
Following yesterday’s incident, we have lost the access road to KT-22 due to avalanche debris. Access roads are required to get snowcats and snowmobiles up the mountain to spin the lift, and it requires a lot of work to put these roads in. With the heavy snowfall we saw overnight, we were not able to reestablish the road. For this reason, KT-22 is not going to open today.
It will be a rigorous snow safety morning for both Palisades and Alpine. Since both mountains closed just shy of 11am yesterday, it will take longer to assess all terrain and get everything open. Delays will be more significant than usual. We appreciate your patience and understanding. We will send push notifications via our app as we have updates throughout the morning.
– Palisades Tahoe statement
Another 14″ of snow fell in the last 24 hours, making for 34″ in the last week.
Yesterday’s Incident
At approximately 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, January 10th, an avalanche occurred on the Palisades side of the resort, specifically in the GS gully area, to the skier’s right of the KT-22 chairlift. For more information about what happened, please visit the resort’s official statement page.
