Lake Tahoe, CA Backcountry Report: Scorching Hot Mid-Winter Corn Chute Harvest Above Big Blue Report from February 24, 2024 Hot. Heat. Hot heat. Fox was racing uphill after our late 10am start. We’d purposely started late to let the corn grow tall, but we underestimated how hot it would be. I was wearing shorts and a T-Shirt and ski pants and I was dying. Sweat poured through my eyebrows and onto the lenses of […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | February 25, 2024 0 Comments
Lake Tahoe, CA Backcountry Report: Semi-Nubile Corn Harvest in Some of the Most Gorgeous Terrain on Earth Report from February 23, 2024 An unplanned slow morning. We tried to get out early, but we were just too tired. The plan was to go ski shady snow in the trees and find some hidden pow. Then we saw these chutes sparkling in the sunshine. We knew the snow wouldn’t be great but we went anyway. The hike up […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | February 24, 2024 0 Comments
Where Will it Be Deep This Week? These are North America’s Top 5 Forecasted Resorts for the 10 Days of February 24 – March 4, 2024 It’s always snowing somewhere, and fresh snow is the essence of skiing and snowboarding. Whether you are chasing the deepest conditions or simply love seeing where the snow is falling so you can live vicariously through others, this list of resorts will be the deepest over the next week and beyond. The entire western U.S. looks to score this week […] Weather Brent Thomas | February 24, 2024 0 Comments
Palisades Tahoe, CA, Report: I Do Not Recommend Throwing Backflips 3 Days After Dislocating Your Shoulder, But That’s What Happened Yesterday… Report from February 21, 2024 Three days ago, I dislocated my left shoulder. I got it back in within three minutes. I didn’t hurt much, and I seem to have recovered quickly. After taking 2 days off, I decided to go ski a couple of mellow laps today. KT held wet but fun snow. The snow on Headwall was a […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | February 22, 2024 0 Comments
Palisades Tahoe, CA, Report: I Dislocated My Shoulder on a Wildly Fun Bluebird Powder Day Report from February 18, 2024 I dislocated my shoulder overrating a backflip on the Granite Kicker today. It was a weird situation. I usually really visualize and calculate things, but this time, I didn’t. I went too fast and literally flung myself off the jump like flinging a boomerang off a cliff. I instantly realized I’d overrotated the flip and […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | February 19, 2024 0 Comments
Where Will it Be Deep This Week? These are North America’s Top 5 Forecasted Resorts for the 10 Days of February 18-27, 2024 It’s always snowing somewhere, and fresh snow is the essence of skiing and snowboarding. Whether you are chasing the deepest conditions or simply love seeing where the snow is falling so you can live vicariously through others, this list of resorts will be the deepest over the next week and beyond. The firehose continues to be aimed right at California. […] Weather Brent Thomas | February 18, 2024 0 Comments
Palisades Tahoe, CA Report: Classic Mainline Pocket Huck-Fest | The Spitter, Cheese Grater, Banana, Far Right Rock Report from February 16, 2024 We were frantic last night on coming up with a plan for today. Backcountry? Where? Palisade? What’s gonna open? Will the hikes open? Is it gonna be sunny or cloudy? Did the snow get cooked? We couldn’t figure it out and at the last minute, around 10pm, we decided on Palisades as a default. We […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | February 17, 2024 0 Comments
Lake Tahoe, CA, Backcountry Report: Playing Peak-A-Boo With Big Blue While Skiing Dense Powder Snow in Cosmic Terrain Report from February 15, 2024 We didn’t see a single other person out there today. Not another cosmic soul… We played peek-a-boo with the lake all day. Powder slash, lake view, tree skiing, lake view, chute, lake view. The snow was dense and heavy and got heavier as the day went on. There was about 4-8″ of new snow on […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | February 15, 2024 0 Comments