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Palisades Tahoe, CA Report: When the Winds Kick Up, the Stories Come Out!

Top of mtn Squaw Valley

Report from 18-19 April 2022, and brought to you by Palisades Tahoe Following a huge weekend of festivities capped off with the annual Cushing Crossing and after-party on the KT sundeck, Monday morning was supposed to mellow. We were expecting another break in the weather patterns before the high winds preceding the next storm arrived later that afternoon. Acting in […]

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Ryan Kime | April 21, 2022
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Mt. Shasta, CA Backcountry Ski Report

Greetings from the Mountain! Although we’ve had a prolonged dry spell, Mt. Shasta is fully snow covered and still packing an adequate base for all winter adventures. A few passing showers and a small system dropped a couple inches of snow recently. There was enough new precipitation to smooth out much of the surface, but not quite enough to satisfy the powder hounds. Nonetheless, the mountain has been gorgeous with the fresh snow and blue skies. […]

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SnowBrains | January 15, 2015
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Sugar Bowl Conditions Report: Snow Top To Bottom, Take Me To Pow Town!

Empty chairs and untracked lines

The storm we’ve been so patiently waiting for this winter is finally upon us.  Well, sort of.  With variable temperatures and some misleading reports (such as Squaw claiming snow at the base when it was certainly rain), Sugar Bowl was certainly the place to be.  It snowed, and snowed HARD, the entire day and total wait time in lift lines: […]

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SnowBrains | February 8, 2014
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