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South Lake Tahoe Backcountry Trip Report: Red Lake Peak – Lots of Dirt Walking, Variable Conditions, and Shallow Snowpack

Report from November 15, 2021, and written by Mark Speicher with Blackbird Mountain Guides Fellow Blackbird Mountain Guide Sarah Newsome and I ventured up Red Lake Peak in the Carson Pass area in the South Lake Tahoe backcountry yesterday (2021-11-15). Based on the lack of tracks near the summit, it didn’t appear many people had been up there since the previous snow. […]

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Guest Author | November 18, 2021
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Snowboarder Took 500′ Ride in Avalanche in Lake Tahoe Yesterday:

Skinned out of Carson Pass today toward the sisters. Saw a lil couloir above round top lake on a North/North East aspect and decided to hike up it. My friend dropped in without cutting it, causing an avalanche that caught him and took him for a ride. It went on the old snow surface, didn’t propagate into the bottom layers or cause the slope /snow below to slide when it hit it. He wasn’t […]

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