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 Thereโs 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 addingย 8 new liftsย 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
Palisades Tahoe, CA, Report: A Nasty, Precision Landing in “The Tube Alternate” & a 580-Miles Drive to Park City, UT Report from April 1, 2024 Yesterday was a long, fun day. The day started at 9am with rumors of “The Chimney” being open up on “The Palisades.” I jammed up to the top of Siberia and the sign said Chimney closed. The east wind was howling… For the first two laps, I tucked straight down the Siberia groomer in the […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | April 2, 2024 0 Comments
Palisades Tahoe, CA, Report: “Smooth Air” Redemption + The Biggest Backflip I’ve Thrown Since 2019 Report from March 26, 2024 Yesterday was a big day for us at Palisades Tahoe, CA. We rolled onto the mountain a little late because we weren’t expecting anything special. Then we got to Granite Chief and realized the peak hadn’t opened the previous day. Noah Gaffney, Kaz, Zeb, and Scott Gaffney were up there filming for Blizzard. They said […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | March 27, 2024 0 Comments
Palisades Tahoe, CA, Report: Skiing Silverado, “The Tube” on The Palisades, & “The Spitter” on Mainline Pocket Report from March 25, 2024 Yesterday we had one goal:ย backflip off The Palisades. Unfortunately, the morning saw all the ridges of Palisades Tahoe socked in with clouds. We cruised around waiting to see what would happen. We skied a neat mini spine on Silverado with good snow. The clouds started breaking up around 10am and we hiked up The […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | March 26, 2024 0 Comments
Lake Tahoe, CA, Backcountry Report: 1 Ridiculously Long Powder Run Report from March 24, 2024 Yesterday we skied one ridiculously long powder run above Lake Tahoe, CA. Fox and I were exhausted. Well, I was exhausted. Fox beat me to the summit by 12 minutes… We recharged on top then dropped this endless line. The snow was exquisite. I slashed and sprayed and hooted as I bounded downhill. We savored. […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | March 25, 2024 0 Comments
Lake Tahoe, CA, Backcountry Report: Powder Returns! Report from March 23, 2024 Yesterday was Fox’s 1 year anniversary of his hip fracture. We went for a walk. Clouds and views were in and out. We dropped into 12-16″ of fluffy, fast new snow that had all fallen overnight. There was definitely a firm, smooth bottom, but we didn’t notice hitting it. The skiing was superb. We came […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | March 24, 2024 0 Comments
SnowBrains Forecast: Very Active Week Set to Hammer CA with Several Feet of Snow Inches of precip will accumulate in California this week. Source: maps.weatherbell.com Forecast prepared the evening of Friday, March 22 Forecast Summary The dry break is over for California, with a couple of low pressure systems bringing large swaths of rain and snow to the state starting Friday night. The rest of March in the Sierra’s will feature intervals of heavy […] Weather WeatherBrains | March 22, 2024 0 Comments
Palisades Tahoe, CA, Week Report: “Ahhh Chute”, Backflips, 360s, & “Mr Toad’s Chute” in the Sunshine Report from March 18-21, 2024 Monday and Tuesday were fire here at Palisades Tahoe. Silverado open, terrain park perfect, good snow all over. Yesterday, Wednesday, was cooler and windier with firmer snow. Today was windier and firmer again but we figured out where some really fun skiing lived. Monday, we went nuts in Silverado and the Gold Coast terrain park: […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | March 22, 2024 0 Comments