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
Palisades Tahoe, CA Report: Forcing It Hard in the Terrain Park With 20mph Winds, Frigid Temps, Cloudy Skies, & Powder Skis Report from February 12 & 13, 2024 On Tuesday, Connery & Fox & Josh Gold got weird in the terrain park at Palisades Tahoe, CA. I was too tired to even ski that day. I tried to ski and tried to jump but it wasn’t working. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Connery Lundin (@c0nnery) I went […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | February 14, 2024 0 Comments
Lake Tahoe, CA Backcountry Report: Powder Skiing Through Gunsight Views of The Lake of the Sky Report from February 11, 2024 Yesterday we had a specific objective in mind. Then we took the wrong skin track and ended up on an entirely different peak than planned. No matter, it held north-facing trees in the shade of the guarded untouched powder on rolling terrain. We had nothing to complain about and we embraced our serendipitous turn of […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | February 12, 2024 0 Comments
Lake Tahoe, CA Backcountry Report: Tripping Out in Castles in the Sky Above Big Blue Report from February 10, 2024 We rolled the dice in Lake Tahoe, CA today. Fox had a plan to go ski a sun-soaked aspect on bluebird day with 60mph east winds. It was clearly a bad plan leading directly to lousy snow in a gorgeous area. I knew the snow wouldn’t be good but knew the views would be so […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | February 11, 2024 1 Comment
NOAA: 3-Day Snowfall Forecast & 6-10 Day, 8-14 Day, & Monthly Outlooks | February 9 In this weather article, you will find the following: 3-Day Snow & Weather Forecast for the USA by NOAA 3-Day Snow Forecast for the USA by the GEM Weather Model 3-Day Snow Forecast for the USA by the GFS Weather Model 6-10 Day Precipitation & Temperature Outlooks for the USA by NOAA 8-14 Day Precipitation & Temperature Outlooks for the […] Weather WeatherBrains | February 9, 2024 0 Comments
Palisades Tahoe, CA, Report: Hucking The Palisades, Mainline Pocket, & Granite Chief Peak in the Sunshine Report from February 8, 2024 Today was a good day. 49″ of snow in the past seven days helped it be so. Nervous, laying on the heated pavement outside the funitel at 8 am. Surrounded by anxious friends. Watching the webcams as ski patrol bombed. “What slid?” “Everything…” But it wasn’t true. The Palisades were good. Owen Leeper and Connery […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | February 8, 2024 0 Comments
Palisades Tahoe, CA Report: Wind-Buff Powder Day on KT-22 With No One Around Report from February 7, 2024 Got up and out on KT-22 at 9am. No lines. Dead Tree. Wasn’t great. I was hoping the big wind of the morning would have blown things in better. Dead Tree skied poorly with old frozen hummocks of snow between wind-blown patches. I went home after one run. Brandon came over and chilled with me […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | February 7, 2024 0 Comments
NOAA: 3-Day Snowfall Forecast & 6-10 Day, 8-14 Day, & Monthly Outlooks | February 7 In this weather article, you will find the following: 3-Day Snow & Weather Forecast for the USA by NOAA 3-Day Snow Forecast for the USA by the GEM Weather Model 3-Day Snow Forecast for the USA by the GFS Weather Model 6-10 Day Precipitation & Temperature Outlooks for the USA by NOAA 8-14 Day Precipitation & Temperature Outlooks for the […] Weather WeatherBrains | February 7, 2024 0 Comments
onX Backcountry’s New Interactive Content of California’s Eastern Sierra Stirs Controversy Amongst Professional Riders One of the best places in the world to backcountry ski may be the Eastern Sierra of California. The region has a deep snowpack, sunny skies, and stunning high-elevation peaks. Great terrain and easy access add to the allure. Nate Greenburg grew up in these mountains, backpacking and skiing throughout the area, and is the co-author of the book Backcountry […] Industry News Brent Thomas | February 7, 2024 2 Comments
Palisades Tahoe, CA, Report: Granite Chief Powder, Backflips, Cliff Hucks, & Big Crashes on Legendary Lines Report from February 6, 2024 Today was yet another powder day at Palisades Tahoe, CA. Ski day #56 (#361 since Dec 8, 2022). We got first tram and raced for Granite Chief. The Andy Hays & Nate Kush went for Glory Rock right under the chair and neither quite pulled it off. Nate lost his helmet cam… Owen Leeper and […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | February 6, 2024 0 Comments
Palisades Tahoe, CA, Report: An Unexpectedly Awesome Powder Day Complete With Cliff Hucks & Good Friends Report from February 5, 2023 It rained at the base last night. Quite a bit. So we slept in today. Duane made pancakes. The skiing wasn’t great yesterday so we expected it to have gotten worse with the rain, wet snow, and high winds. We were wrong. Dead wrong. We got out there at 9am and the lineup for KT-22 […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | February 5, 2024 0 Comments
NOAA: 3-Day Snowfall Forecast & 6-10 Day, 8-14 Day, & Monthly Outlooks | February 5 In this weather article, you will find the following: 3-Day Snow & Weather Forecast for the USA by NOAA 3-Day Snow Forecast for the USA by the GEM Weather Model 3-Day Snow Forecast for the USA by the GFS Weather Model 6-10 Day Precipitation & Temperature Outlooks for the USA by NOAA 8-14 Day Precipitation & Temperature Outlooks for the […] Weather SnowBrains | February 5, 2024 0 Comments
Palisades Tahoe, CA, Operations Update February 4, 2024: Delays & Closures Possible Following Intense Storm Operations Update: Delays & Closures Possible Following Intense Storm By Liz Worgan Feb 4, 2024 Photo taken by Hunter Lamer, Palisades Grooming. The biggest storm of the season is here, and it is intense. If you skied this morning, you know that visibility was low. The wind wasn’t as much of a problem until midday; slowly, due to both wind […] Conditions Report SnowBrains | February 4, 2024 0 Comments
Palisades Tahoe, CA Closes Today Due To Snowfall Rates Of 2-3″ Per Hour, Rising Winds, & Increasing Avalanche Danger Report from February 4, 2024 We got first chair this morning on KT-22 at Palisades Tahoe, CA. Palisades was only reporting 2″ of new snow at 6am but it was snowing 2″ per hour… Just in case we got out early. We went for West Face on the first run and it was still moguly and rough underneath. After that […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | February 4, 2024 0 Comments
Lake Tahoe, CA, Backcountry Report: Hallucinating Above Big Blue in Deep Powder Snow & 15ºF Temps Report from February 3, 2024 Up at 5am. Out by 5:30am. Met up with crew at 6am. Hiking by 6:45am. Summit at 8:30am. The lake was searing my eyes. This place is even more spectacular than I remembered. To think that anything can best a 15ºF, bluebird, 2-foot powder day above Lake Tahoe is hard to imagine… The view hits […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | February 3, 2024 0 Comments
Palisades Tahoe, CA Report: A Sneaky Stormy Powder Day With A Stellar Afternoon Shift Report from February 2, 2024 Yesterday was another sneaky powder day at Palisades Tahoe, CA. They reported another 4″ of snow overnight and it snowed hard all day. We got out first thing and went straight up to Granite Chief. We got in some quality powder runs but we were still hitting the firm snow underneath and it didn’t snow […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | February 3, 2024 0 Comments
Palisades Tahoe, CA, Report: A Sneaker Powder Day With No One Around… Report from February 1, 2023 Today was a sneaker powder day at Palisades Tahoe, CA with no one around… Palisades reported 4″ of new snow on the upper mountain and 0″ at the bottom. Honestly, I wasn’t too inspired by the report, but I rolled outta bed and got to the hill by 8:45 a.m. Noah said the Funitel was […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | February 1, 2024 0 Comments
NOAA: 3-Day Snowfall Forecast & 6-10 Day, 8-14 Day, & Monthly Outlooks | January 31 In this weather article, you will find the following: 3-Day Snow & Weather Forecast for the USA by NOAA 3-Day Snow Forecast for the USA by the GEM Weather Model 3-Day Snow Forecast for the USA by the GFS Weather Model 6-10 Day Precipitation & Temperature Outlooks for the USA by NOAA 8-14 Day Precipitation & Temperature Outlooks for the […] Weather WeatherBrains | January 31, 2024 0 Comments
Alta, UT, Report: Devil’s Castle Opens For The Season & Delivers Elevator & Sneaky Peak Chutes Report from January 30, 2023 Today was my last day in Utah for a while. I wanted to do something memorable and we’d seen that the Devil’s Castle zone had opened at Alta yesterday for the first time this season (East Castle opened today for the first time as well – Baldy Chutes tomorrow?). I’d never skied that zone and […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 30, 2024 0 Comments