Decided to put together a TR from day #4 of my tahoe trip. Northstar at tahoe.
This helps .
The early bird gets the worm. Thank the Ritz carlton for installing the new gondola at the edge of home run for 8 am access to mid mountain.
Northstar is a great intermediate Tahoe mountain for carving.They groom a lot.Took a few laps on the backside and lookout .Nice cords moderate pitch.You can sort of see the rainbow in the first one.
Prosser kind of reminds me of the steep at lower cup at snowshoe except it doesn't flatten out. Great warm up runs.
But I didn't come to northstar to ride groomers all day. Ive been there alot over the years and I know that if it snowed 8 feet in the last 2 weeks the goods were still there.
Tried sawtooth ridge first .Luckily the snow was pretty packed and the hike was pretty easy and only like 15 minutes.
North facing it shouldn't be bad right
Wrong ..elevation is too low here and the snow has settled to much and its too grabby.Navigate some crazy terrain back to the lift and head to lookout mountain.Too grabby to huck trust me I tried.
Take the boot pack out on lookout mtn.Grab a lake view catch my breath .
Getting tired I could use a pillow .
Insane lines were had .The snow was settled some but was NNE facing and mostly in the shade.It was a lot of fun for pillow hoping
Hucked
Hucked
Set my camera up in the tree,put 10 second timer on run over and up,smile.
Pop out of the woods ride a mile long groomer and ride the lift to the top ..Repeat for several hours
The local's don't mind if you call their mountain flatstar .They hang out back here and ride the goods days after the fact.
Drive back to my condo at squaw put my boots out to dry on my balcony and watch the storm clouds roll in .(Fingers crossed for some fresh snow and powder turns out back tomorrow) Finished.
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TR: Tahoe Day #4 Northstar at tahoe
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dreamnofpow
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Good stuff, only way to ride NS is for free. I heart Squaw Valley.
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brookbarrel
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@dreamnofpow 206397 wrote:Good stuff, only way to ride NS is for free. I heart Squaw Valley.
I rode squaw yesterday,$ on the upper mountain . Hard to go anywhere else when I'm looking out the window at kt ,but I like variety.Have 2 more tix to squaw and I'm here until sunday.Pretty sure 1 is getting used tomorrow its snowing now.
I rode squaw yesterday,$ on the upper mountain . Hard to go anywhere else when I'm looking out the window at kt ,but I like variety.Have 2 more tix to squaw and I'm here until sunday.Pretty sure 1 is getting used tomorrow its snowing now.
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@brookbarrel 206354 wrote:They hang out back here and ride the goods days after the fact.
Nice.
Nice.
Plans for 2015: To ski more than you
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carvebeast
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no park shots?! looks like you slayed those pillows though nice work bet you were boostin!
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brookbarrel
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Ill throw one together from squaw. Went to the heav today with intentions of staying at a dive in SLT and going to kirkwood tomorrow. Light snowshowers today allowed for deeper cuts into the groomers and descent windloading in areas off sky express from yesterdays couple inches.
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Really great reports but this last one was especially nice -- I see what you mean about the tree wells some of them look hungry. Excellent stuff; you know not WV powder, but the west still does ok.
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brookbarrel
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@davidski 206874 wrote:Really great reports but this last one was especially nice -- I see what you mean about the tree wells some of them look hungry. Excellent stuff; you know not WV powder, but the west still does ok.
thanks david.. starving
thanks david.. starving