Lake Tahoe, CA Backcountry Report: Getting Walled in Lake Tahoe, CA in a Frighteningly Long Couloir in Some Mid-Winter California Corn Report from February 25, 2024 Yesterday was day #4 in a row in the Lake Tahoe backcountry. Each day, we skied a different chute. This mid-winter mini-springtime delivered. Yesterday we went for a couloir we’d never skied before. We dropped in around 11am and the California corn was perfectly ripe. We got walled in the top section, then opened it […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | February 26, 2024 0 Comments
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
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
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