Lake Tahoe, CA Backcountry Report: The Darkside Chute… 17 Wild Jump-Turns Down a Tight, Walled, Tricky AF Couloir Report from February 27, 2024 I woke up today and broke a 36-hour fast. I was hungry. After 4 days in a row of sunny backcountry skiing in Tahoe last week, we took yesterday off and just skied resort for a bit in cloudy, wildly windy weather. It was supposed to snow yesterday, but it refused… We decided to go […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | February 27, 2024 0 Comments
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
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
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
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
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
Cycling the West Coast: The Final Ride! [Day 33] Day 33 It was a bittersweet morning. Packing up and realizing today is going to be full of “lasts” was a tough pill to swallow, but knowing I get to finish my incredible journey in one of the prettiest coastlines had me stoked. I did my morning stretch, ate the last bit of fruit I had, and wheeled my bike […] Biking Luke Guilford | June 26, 2023 1 Comment
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