phillycore

Welcome back home man.... I enjoyed reading/viewing your t/r's over the past month.

If I honestly cared about views, I could just click on my own thread a zillion times like Doug does....lol The internet connection at the resort sucked which meant I wasn't wasting too much time trying to make things happen that weren't going to. Literally we have over 50GB of gopro hd video footage... There wasn't a run the whole week where the camera wasn't running. I don't edit video and I'm not sorting through it either as I get seasick watching it for more than a minute anyway. Currently, I'm transferring the footage that is on my cpu onto my friends external so he can make sense of it. Whenever he's done with it I'll probably post something up... who knows when that'll be. With that said.. Tahoe is a special place and it is the home to some great skiing. I'm glad I had the chance to get out there.

The fact that this thread has less views than a thread about broken lockers makes me think I wasted my time even making it. Not going to bother getting the videos up now... (We have 50GB of footage to go through anyway) I'll take some pics of the functioning JFBB lockers next trip up there instead..

not trying to threadjack here... but didn't want to make a new thread for basically the same thing... Any suggestions for some inexpensive bulletproof set of mtn bike wheels? don't care about weight, just want them to survive a few years as my 14 year old likes to bend and trash them.

Tahoe trip photos now on facebook

I'll be there when the lockers work.

Kevin, While I completely agree with you, I also know you are wasting your time trying to get a legitimate point across when it comes to some people on this board.

I posted these on my facebook when I was out there via my phone.. I'll try sorting through more of the crap asap View from Squaw Valley Atop the KT-22 Entrance to Squaw Valley First Tracks at Homewood DA DA Deep at Homewood

Sounds and looks like a good time...

Nope... but I guess your first born could always be named Jackson Blue That would be pretty cool

Looks like I might miss another weekend at JF this coming one as well... Sunday is a definite out... saturday is seriously questionable at this point. (Hunter has his last basketball game)

No casinos.. This is late but haven't been online until now... Jack and I did go back to heavenly to finish out the week with day 6 of 6. Josh and David took the last day off nursingf ankle/knee injuries. Mainly stayed on the Nevada side around the olympic and dipper lifts after the morning off of the canyon/sky lifts. The conditions went away a little bit compared to the first time we were there, but as expected no fresh snow either. The pines were sweet and I took my firstbloods out for some fun. They felt so small after skiing on the NGP's pretty much all week except for the homewood day. Saturday we spent the whole day on the planes and got home around 9:30pm est. Spent Sunday with the family and back to work and reality today... ho hum.. I'll try to get on later in the week and post up some more pics and hopefully we can make sense of all this video we have sooner than later. At the moment it's spread out in 3 locations in 3 states on 3 different computers...lol

View of Lake Tahoe from South Face at Alpine Meadows

Alpine Meadows...Day 5 After 4 days of open to close skiing things are really starting to take it's toll. First run of the day was down the long groomers off the main 6 person lift to the top. Second run we went to the same lift but headed skiers left to the bowl and traversed it all the way over to the end on top of the trees. Down the bowl, through the trees heading skiers left into what we found out later to be a closed area. Signs said closed area from the oppositte side of where we were to not go into the spot we were in.. oh well too late..lol) Down through the revine and through this really tight and steep gully. David went down with a knee injury, Josh followed down to see if he was alright. I then side slipped it down as my legs were on fire and I knew making the tight turns was going to take a lot more effort than I was willing to do at the moment. We finished the run (including David) but at the lift I stopped for a much needed leg/ knee for about 15 minutes. While we are all beat up and only made it until 3 today, it was good. I went off on my own after my 15 minute leg/knee rest as they were sticking to tree runs and gully's. Tight turns were not on my agenda as the big stix are heavy as hell and not exactly easy to swing sround so I headed up the Scott lift then down towards the sherwood bowl. I made one run through the trees at the top but hung to the groomer side so I could bail if my legs were failing on me. Back up sherwood to the groomers skiers right.... Back up sherwood... skiers left to the main massive bowl. The view of the lake from the bowl is amazing, the sun was on the bowl and the snow was deep and thick like mashed taters. I traversed over and then down the spine between the two natural half pipes. I got down a little lower on the spine and didn't want to make the 12 foot drop into the pipe so I side stepped back up 5 feet or so until the drop was closer to 6-7 feet and I could drop into it with and uphill motion rather than straight down. The bowl is steep as hell and the thick snow wasn't exactly easy to turn in. I had to pretty much point it downhill and make 3-4 turns and then stop for a second to stop the thigh burn... 3-4 more turns, etc.. 2 days ago or with softer snow this would've been butter, but today this was a workout and a half. Fun, just real tough on the legs. After the bowl dodging the rocks I went back up sherwood and headed towards the lodge via the groomers / intermediate runs. Met up with the others for lunch but they were ready to head back out by the time I got back to the lodge from the backside. Stayed in the meadows cafe for 20 minutes then back out to the hot wheels lift. Down the hot wheels gully and to the scott lift. Down the runs there and back over to sherwood. This time David and I stuck to the intermediates and trees to the left. Made 3 or 4 passes down as Jack and Josh went down through the trees under the sherwood lift and then down the sherwood face. Josh ended up getting jammed in between two trees and tore his pants / twisted his ankle somehow. We then headed toward the lodge. David and Josh called it quits as they both got hurt (gametime decision weather they ski Heavenly tomorrow or not) Jack and I went up the main lift to the top. I got a message on my phone saying my wife needed to talk to me asap so I gunned it down the groomers to the lodge. Jack took the same bowl that we did on the 2nd run of the day. By the time we both hit the lodge we were ready to call it quits. It was 3pm and simply put, 5 straight days of open to close was killing us. A great day, great mountain.... a rest day is looking like it might have been a great idea in hindsight. Heavenly tomorrow to close out the trip... Jack and I will be there for opening for sure... David and Josh are gametime decisions... How long we can ski for is the one thing that has yet to be determined... Heavenly is a real fun mountain, and I'm taking my firstbloods tomorrow for only the second time this trip to make it easier on my legs. No new snow coming and a sunny day on tap...should be a good one

Went to Squaw Valley today... It's a beast!! The best way to describe it is being an Angry mountain. Huge rock faces, steep bowls, really intimidating mountain for sure. Even the lifts are extremely high off the ground. Started the day off via the red dog lift and made our way over towards the Squaw creek lift. My left calf cramped up hardcore so I stopped there to take my boot off and get the cramp out while they took off for wherever. About 20 minutes later I got it worked out and headed from squaw creek over and down to the KT-22 lift. Then worked over towards and up the headwall express. There was a serious cloud there and you couldn't see 10 feet in front of you. I headed to the right and on the 5 foot wide traverse through the clouds and then dropped into the bowl on the right. Then worked over to the gold coast lift where I met up with the three others. We worked through some trees and then down towards kt-22 again. Did some runs off of that and then stopped for lunch. I had a chicken burrito and a coke...it wasn't that good and didn't compare to my tri-tip panini from heavenly yesterday. After lunch we worked off of kt-22 again then across to some other lifts and eventually ended up at granite chief. Wow this was gnarly... Had to be real careful as I worked my way down through the narrow chute between the two rock faces and down. We took some shirley lift after that and hung up to the left hugging the bowl so we could get deep into where the deeper less tracked stuff was. After this they closed that lift and we hurried to catch another that went to the top of the bowl we had just skied down from the mid point. We went skiers right along the "easier route" just enough to track over to where the othwe bowl was then we jumped the lip and went down the bowl and into the trees below. They were closing lifts and we were trying to stay back for as long as possible but eventually got forced to the front and I just ended up taking the groomer run down and under the tram. The snow was perfect...not blower, but not the cement we had at homewood either. Thick enough that it would push for you when you needed it to keep from sliding down the steep faces but not so thick that it made it like mush. The higher elevations were better than the lower, but it was also not a real cold day and the sun was making the pow on the lower elevations more saturated. Some real sick stuff at Squaw and the mountain definitely earned my respect. There was so much there that I would NEVER even THINK of considering. I'd definitely put Squaw right there with Jackson as far as being downright Gnarly. We spent a lot more time in bowls and steeps today than in the trees like we have pretty much all week so it was a nice change.

The internet here sucks. I am on my blackberry for the time being. Couldn't get pages to load last night. Fwiw I don't know how to resize and no time to mess with it at the moment bbiab

Heavenly is sick... it's massive and I don't think we were on one single trail all day except for traversing from one section to another. Mott's is Topps!! Steep, n Deep Oh man soooo much to talk about I don't even know where to start...lol Nice soft powder, spent soo much time in the trees today it was killer. The NGP's were absolutely AWESOME today. Not a yardsale all day and we were in some thick shit today too. So much fluff everywhere!! The vids have to be killer from today... can't wait to see what we got. pics later..

I know they are big, I resized them down to 5mp today....however Even plain text takes me like 5 tries to get it through. I have to copy whatever I typed because it keeps timing out and going to diagnose connection problems. I lost the first report and have been keeping everything pretty vague because I don't have the time to mess around with it all night. No plans on hitting any bars or anything like that.. For food we had ihop on sat night - No rating neccesary.. it was a good ihop though we might go back later on in the week Mexican cantina sun night - B- Womacks Bar BQ last night - A++ Heavenly got another 8" last night and it's still snowing now.... I'm out..

This internet is killing me...slow as all hell Heavenly tommorrow and more snow though it's not snowing at the moment for the first time all day...

Back from Homewood...all I have to say is... Homewood is THE SHIT!!!! Best snow EVER, DEEPEST snow EVER!!! TOO Deep for me in a ton of spots... Even the groomer runs had a foot of fresh on top of them by days end. The one downside was that it was snowing wet today all day so it got real heavy as the day went on, and it was just dumping all day long. Knee deep in cement isn't fun for me, or David.. I am simply too heavy to float in that deep of wet snow. I need to go so fast that my legs can't handle it to keep on top of it and anywhere where I can't stop now and then for my legs to recover lead to me sinking and having to find ways to get back on top. What can I say, I'm a fat out of shape guy and for me there is such a thing as too deep. I took my firstbloods today having NO IDEA what it would be like there. This made the snow at Kirkwood look like a heavy dusting. There weas simply deep snow everywhere. It's definitely smaller than a lot of the other areas I've been to, but with the snow they had there and NOONE there it is a serious gem if the conditions are the way we found them today normally. I mean WOW... Deep doesn't even describe it good enough. Homewood has some crappy traverses with some uphills that kinda sucked as the day went on and they got covered over. Other than thay, there is no downside to it. Do not get me wrong, I did not have a bad time. I struggled in the change your life deep snow no doubt, but there was SOOO much snow everywhere it was basically pick a spot how deep do you want to go. I like the boot deep stuff and can somewhat hang in the knee deep... anything deeper than that was sink city.. pics coming if this internet connection will allow it..

I had my pack so just attached skis and used poles to walk. We needed a break so timing of it wasn't too bad, just wished we were already on break rather than at base of trail. Lifts were only down for just under an hour so not too bad. Our lift tickets are good for a full day at half day price, but we aren't going back to the wood this trip so I figured I'll just mail it to Timeless when I get back as he could probably use it at some point. I did look at some of the vids, but they make me sea sick and need a lot of editing to cut out downtime (traversing, equipment adjustments, etc.) Josh had a nasty yardsale yesterday...ski popped off and smacked him in the face...blood on the sloped people!! He's good though, just gashed his nose really and woke him up pretty good. off to homewood... it's dumping again with big time winds... 30 mph gusts, 75mph gusts at ridgelines above 7k feet. Homewood is only like 7880 so good day to head there with the lowest elevation of the places were going. (also the smallest mtn) but most snow....so should be an interesting day with no visability again..

hiking up the trail after power outage to entire mountain When the snow is this high over a suburban in the parking lot you know it's going to be DEEP doesn't really even come close to showing how deep it is... Whiteout conditions all day.. Homewood got a foot of fresh today and more coming tomorrow so we're headed there for Monday's shralpage... bedtime for me..

I replied to this earlier and the slow ass connection here dumped it... don't feel like typing it right now... but all I can say is... IT WAS DEEEEEEEP!!! and Kirkwood has major power issues.... hiking up trails is NOT fun.

We arrived yesterday at Reno/Tahoe, all bags arrived intact! Picked up the rental vehicle a brand new (600 miles on it) white suburban with ski racks, and headed out towards Tahoe After a quick stop at the Carson city 7-11 for some drinks, we got to our lodging for the week at the Tahoe Seasons Resort. Got our side by side jacuzzi'd and fireplaced up rooms then headed out to the safeway for groceries (breakfast stuff, bananas, granola bars, things of that nature..) Drove back to the resort and dropped the groceries off and headed out to the Ihop for dinner. After that we basically just unpacked and checked out the on site ski shop, etc. Getting ready to head out to Kirkwood for the day....I'll try to log back in tonight with some pics.. peace out... time to score some powduh..