Marc's Public Blog - Skiing / Snowboarding / Snow

my car predicted it would arrive with 14% left, that was very close, I would have had 10% left if I hadn't stopped to recharge

Carson Spur is looking interesting now, it closes almost as soon as snow starts falling

Got a nicely priced unit from Pyramid Peak properties and let the car charge slowly over the next 3 days

it was snowing nicely soon after I arrived

The next morning was sadly too windy, so as expected KW opened very late (11:30) and only a couple of boring lifts. I did do a few runs on chair5 until I got bored and confirmed chair6 was not going to open for the day, and went back to my condo to get some work done:

sigh, no chair6 for us :(

Day #2 had another foot+ of new snow, and the roads were still closed. I was hopeful for a great day, but chair6 only opened close to noon (i.e. very late) and only a very narrow band of it (even access to chamoix was closed, and the drain on the other side was closed too of course):

opening the door was interesting

some other doors couldn't be open at all :)

chair6 being readied, finally...

nice warning, I'd rather that they tell us that than stay closed because of limited medical help being available

the runs I was able to do from chair6 didn't suck

Day #3 sadly had the road open from Carson Pass, so people showed up :) More of chair6 got opened:

more snow falling throughout the day

I got to meet Ricky, the head of ski patrol of nicely gave me a tour and showed me the challenges they deal with

eventually the wall opened and that was quite good, I lapped it for the rest of the day :)

Day #4, I stupidly slept at kirkwood due to poor planning on my part, but drove to heavenly to meet my friend Ovidiu to do some powder runs on firebreak and palisades:

nice snow accumulation of the last days

my car was all nice and clean and came out when the sun did :)

obligatory kirkwood sign picture

drove to harrah's parking and joined Ovidiu in the long friday morning gondola line

I noticed that, nice tires on that stretcher

we walked to the first backcountry gate as the lifts weren't running yet (!)

back down to the road

big easy was open, so we took it to the fire break gate to run palisades

We got 3 nice runs on Palisades until heavenly closed the gondola for wind :(

nice runs to burnt forest (2000ft vertical), the rest was more crappy snow

back up for more

nice lenticular cloud that came from the pretty heavy wind

bridge back to firebreak and the bottom of the gondola

And after those 3 nice runs, sadly half of heavenly closed and despite it being barely 13:30, we decided that the rest of heavenly wasn't worth it, so we both went home. Thanks Ovidiu for being my guide for the half day :)