The Snow is falling in Tahoe, Kirkwood, Sierra at Tahoe, and Heavenly have all hit with toms of new snow just in time for the Presidents day weekend. We’re waxing up the skis and snowboards for this weekend. If your looking to rent skis save 20% Off by pre paying online at Shoreline of Tahoe
Meet Alex, He stopped by at the Shoreline gate, and talks to us about the new lifts at Kirkwood and Boreal Ridge. Alex works for Mountain Pride Construction out of Tahoe City, they build lifts all over the planet. Alex sheds some insights on the new surface lifts at Kirkwood, they will make it easier to acess areas of the mountain that in the past only those committed to hike for the powder, would ski / ride. To the local Kirkwood skier / rider this is a bit upsetting, The Kirkwood local knows on a good powder day they can keep one step ahead of the masses. By plotting out their day, mixing chairs runs with hiking they will eat up all the powder like packman. The new lifts don’t really offer anything new to the hard core kirkwood skier / rider, so will this be good or bad for Kirkwood? A few years ago, Heavenly open up the fire brake area under the their new Gondola, to see so many ya-hoos trying to descend an area that was clearly mark as expert only was a bit shocking. Normally the extra hike would kind of weed out the ya-hoos, to increase accessible to expert terrain could end up ruining the powder for those who know how to rip it up. (Did that sound elitist?) So what is the local Kirkwood skier / rider to do? Increase your runs by learning new powder patterns, a good kirkwood local, can easily find Powder stashes 4 or 5 days after a dump. you’ll just have ski / ride those a few days sooner then normal, and be content that on the first day you got more vertical feet in because you hiked less….congratulations Kirkwwod on your new lifts….because the truth of the matter is most of us like to ride more then hike.
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?
Sunday 11/02/08
Thursday Morning
Sunrise shot Thursday morning “Red sky at nite, boarders uptight, red sky in morning, boarder be boarding” I’m up early most every morning, what a blessing to ses it start to snow at 6:15 am, Sunday Morning…..
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