This is a great event to end the season, Thank-you Matt and the gang from “The Red Dawn” for another good time. See you all this next year at the Shop Battle.

The long awaited 2009 Line skis Shop Battle contest footage is now up on Shoreline Of Tahoe’s web site.  Shoreline of Tahoe’s Ski and Snowboard Team was there in full force,  being defending champions from 2007, didn’t matter to the weather, it puked on us off and on all day long. We had a great time, But like a worn out shoe, we didn’t didn’t get the tittle this year, (what ever that means)

The full view of the one run, or should I say one sweet park run!

The weather was perfect and the boxes and rails were sliding nice and fast.

Boreal had such a fun park setup!

Boreal Resort opens up today

Boreal Webcam

Opening Day at Boreal Mountain!
Every year it’s a race to see which resort will open first in the Sierra’s. Most every year it’s Mammoth Mountain, followed by either Boreal or Heavenly. How do these mountains year after year end up opening up first year after year? lets take a close look each one of them, Boreal’s base is 7200 ft, they have picked some of the runs so clean during the summer months that it could open up with very little snow. Boreal also invested a lot of money in Snowmaking. Heavenly can’t pick their runs clean in the summer because of an environmental agency called The Tahoe regional planning Association (TRPA) The concept here in Tahoe is that the faster water can run into the lake, the worst it is for lake clarity. so logs and big rocks have to stay on the runs, which means you need more snow to open heavenly, or for that matter any other resort in the Tahoe basin. So how does Heavenly continue to be in the top 3? they own the most snowmaking equipment in all the world. Mammoth Mountain for some reason always gets the natural snow, they have some snowmaking, but year after year they get the snow. they also can pick their runs clean. Kirkwood is another resort that always seems to get the natural white….SO like most years here is the order of resorts opening in the sierra’s Mamoth was first, Boreal Second, and which resort will be 3rd, Kirkwood or Heavenly?

The 2008-09 winter season is here, it’s cold, and we have the technology to Play God. There is no doubt that God’s snow is better, but to be albe to ride this early!  who cares! its still a lot of fun.