Palisades Tahoe, CA, Report: Opening Day For KT-22 | First Human Being Down “Ahhh Chutes” This Season Report from December 20, 2024 Today was the last day of Autumn 2024. Today was also the first day the legendary KT-22 opened for the season. KT holds the best terrain at Palisades Tahoe, CA, and it showed. KT didn’t open until noon as patrol was waiting for conditions to soften. Once it popped, everyone went nuts. I saw just […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | December 20, 2024 0 Comments
Palisades Tahoe, CA, Report: Playing “Q*bert” In Crunchy Corn Snow After the Big Rain/Freeze Event Report from December 18, 2024 It’s incredible how quickly this place can go from catastrophe to damn fun. For me, this happened in 24 hours, but I’m getting reports that folks were having fun off-piste in the sunshine at Palisades Tahoe as soon as the same day of the rain/freeze event. What happened? It rained to the top of the […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | December 19, 2024 0 Comments
[Photo Tour] Look But Don’t Touch at Palisades Tahoe, CA, Yesterday Report from December 17, 2024 Look But Don’t Touch Yesterday at palisadestahoe, CA! “If you go off-piste, you’re taking your life in your hands,” Ski Patroller David told us yesterday… And he was right, the off-piste was treacherous after the previous day brought rain to the top and a freeze overnight. The whole mountain was a crusty popsicle. Then, only […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | December 18, 2024 0 Comments
Palisades Tahoe, CA, Report: Stormy Fun Wet Powder Skiing Before The Rain… Report from December 15, 2024 We weren’t sure what to expect out there yesterday so we stumbled outta bed and onto the slopes at Palisades Tahoe early. The storm was hitting hard with 100mph winds that kept the upper mountain closed. Red Dog and the Resort Chair were open so we headed up. View this post on Instagram A post […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | December 17, 2024 0 Comments
Lake Tahoe, CA, Backcountry Report: Skiing Fast Powder Snow Above Stunning Lake Tahoe Report from December 15, 2024 Yesterday, we got out into the Lake Tahoe, CA, backcountry early. Well, we thought we were early, but people had already done two laps by the time we hit the top… No matter, there was plenty of room out there, and our first run was buttery smooth. The wind had its way with the snow, […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | December 16, 2024 0 Comments
Lake Tahoe, CA, Backcountry Report: Big Storm, High Avalanche Danger, & Mellow Turns Report from December 14, 2024 We got out into the Tahoe backcountry early today in a driving blizzard. The Sierra Avalanche Center called for HIGH avalanche danger, with human-triggered avalanches likely. This pushed us into low-angle, non-exposed terrain. So, we went for a lovely walk in about 2 feet of new snow. Geoff, Jamie, and I cruised around, set skin […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | December 14, 2024 0 Comments
Lake Tahoe, CA, Backcountry Report: Spooky Powder & Rock Strikes on Friday The 13th… Report from Friday the 13th, December, 2024 Friday the 13th always seems to have a little luck in it, doesn’t it? Fox and I got out into the backcountry of Lake Tahoe, California, kinda early today without a clear picture of what we were gonna find out there. After 2 weeks of zero hiking, it was time to try. We […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | December 13, 2024 0 Comments
Palisades Tahoe, CA, Report: Upper Mountain Mini-Powder Day Fun Report from December 12, 2024 We awoke to snow flurries this morning and reports of 0″ of snow overnight. So we waited… About noon, I couldn’t take it any longer and rolled out and straight to the upper mountain. It hadn’t snowed much so I knew that lower angle terrain would ski best. I jump onto the Shirley Lake chair […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | December 12, 2024 0 Comments
How is Palisades Tahoe, CA, Skiing Right Now? | Full Report, Video, & Photo Tour Report from December 2, 3, 4, 2024 On Monday, I drove across the deserts of Nevada from Park City, UT, to Olympic Valley, CA. I left at 6 am to ski the afternoon at Palisades Tahoe. After a quick stop at the grocery store and season pass office, I was skiing by 2 pm. To my delighted surprise, the Reverse […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | December 5, 2024 0 Comments
Palisades Tahoe, CA, Thanksgiving Weekend Operations Update: 8 New Lifts Starting Sunday By Palisades Tahoe on November 29, 2024 8 Lifts Added to Sunday’s Lineup There’s a lot more to be grateful for this week, we are expanding our terrain! Thanks to our operations working around the clock, we will be adding 8 new lifts on our upper mountain to the lift schedule this Sunday, December 1. While we would love to open this […] Industry News SnowBrains | November 29, 2024 0 Comments
Trip Report: 12,219′ Hurd Peak, CA – “North Face” Report from June 8, 2023 After a big week last week (Tungstar Bowls, Basin Mountain, The Incredible Hulk), we needed a high-quality ski mountaineering line that didn’t require much hiking. We’d gotten some good beta that 12,219 Hurd Peak, CA was skiing well (thanks Laura & others). The only hiccup was that the South Lake Rd was closed 1.3 miles […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | June 10, 2023 0 Comments
Palisades Tahoe, CA, Prepares for Closing Day Weekend as Alpine Meadows Resort Announces Exciting Summer Operating Schedule with Skiing and Riding Available Until July 4th After one of the most remarkable winters in recent memory, closing weekend for the Palisades side of the resort has finally come. Of course, the Alpine side will stay open through the 4th of July for skiing and riding. Summer operations for the Palisades side, including Aerial Tram sightseeing and select activities, will begin mid-June. Here’s what to expect over […] Industry News SnowBrains | May 24, 2023 0 Comments
Mammoth, CA, Report: “Balls To The Wall” Chute on a Cold, Windy, Sunny Mid-Winter Powder Day on May 7th Report from May 7, 2023 Brought to you by Mammoth Mountain Today was a powder day at Mammoth Mountain, CA. Maybe we should still call it a mini-powder day? It felt like a legit powder day. We waited for Chair 2, starting at 8:20 am and were the 12th chair. We bolted straight for the mid-station of the gondola and […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | May 7, 2023 0 Comments
Mammoth, CA Report: Full-Throttle Epic Mini-Powder Day After 7″ of New Snow Report from May 3, 2023 Brought to you by Mammoth Mountain Yesterday, we experienced a full-throttle epic mini-powder day at Mammoth Mountain, CA. It’s difficult to express how much fun we had here yesterday… We skied scary lines off Huevos Grande (proper Spanish would be “Huevos Grandes”) that we hadn’t skied since 2006. We skied bizarre knife-edge ridge runs down the […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | May 4, 2023 1 Comment
Southern California Ski Areas Receive Record-Breaking 6-8 Feet of Snow Over The Last Week Mountain High Resort averages 67″ of snowfall a season. Last week, the Southern California ski area located in the San Bernardino Mountains received a 93″ storm total, or nearly 8 feet of new snow. It’s the largest snowstorm in recent history for the ski area. Mountain High has been closed for the past three days due to too much snow and […] Conditions Report SnowBrains | March 1, 2023 0 Comments
Tahoe Backcountry Report: Another Chute in One of the Most Gorgeous Places on Earth Report from January 2, 2021 Yesterday was the last day of this enormous powder cycle in Lake Tahoe. We went to a zone that we knew would have bad snow but would be a gorgeous ski. I was exhausted. Yesterday was my 53rd day of the season and my 31st backcountry day. I barely kept up. The views were spectacular. […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 3, 2022 0 Comments
Mammoth Mountain, CA Report: Legit Big Mountain Skiing In Late June Report from June 27th, 2019 Another deep freeze made Mammoth terrific today. It was cool and windy today, which kept the snow great all day. The high was only 40ºF at the top of the mountain and only 50ºF at the bottom today. It’s pretty amazing that you can get in legit big mountain skiing at an open ski resort […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | June 28, 2019 0 Comments
Eastern Sierra, CA Backcountry Report: 8 Glorious Hours on 12,558′ Bloody Mountain Report from May 14th, 2019 Yesterday morning, we decided to go for a long walk up Blood Couloir on 12,558′ Blood Mountain near Mammoth Lakes, California. Bloody is a verified classic – especially since it’s in Chris Davenport’s “Fifty Classic Ski Descents of North America.” We started as low as you can possibly start on that climb which made for […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | May 17, 2019 0 Comments
Squaw Valley, CA Conditions Report: Powder, Flips, Hucks, & Obnoxious Amounts of Fun video showing a few of the boys getting upside and far from the ground today. Today was my very first day of the 2017/18 winter season. I just happened to spend it at Squaw Valley, CA. It just happened to be an incredible powder day. video showing what today looked like through the eyes of dangerous local ripper Aaron Fox. […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | November 27, 2017 2 Comments
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