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Palisades filled their parking and had some big lines. First two photos are from SkiTalk. Part of Funitel line. KT22 line taken after it started loading. Photo from friend who lives a couple of miles N of Truckee. On Fri he told me he was only expecting 2” @6K. I told him OpenSnow said 4-8”...

Palisades reports 6” new at base and up to 26” at top. “Expect delayed openings due to snow safety.” KT was the only lift running on Saturday and Alexzn said it was awful. I80 had chain control and Eastbound closed for a while due to spinouts. We are running heat this morning for first time in...

After closing Alpine side and Red Dog and Resort chairs plus Base to Base gondola (provides access to KT) and a minor lift or two, Palisades is down to 11 lifts including Funitel and Tram while Manmoth has 8 chairs plus Lower and Upper gondola. Does that count as 9 or 10? Not sure that snowmelt...

They could have easily gone a couple of more weeks and if they had as many people there as they did their last day (or two), they probably would have. No photos and still posting without a keyboard as laptop in for repair of charging port. We had to squeeze into narrow spot between two vans to...

Monday, April 29 was the first day Palisades changed hours to 8-2. They were only Tahoe ski area still open and had closed their Alpine Meadows side, Red Dog and Resort lift after Sunday. A nephew is working on Summer concert venue being rebuilt behind Harvey’s casino so I invited him to overlap...

Saturday, April 27 I’m having trouble with power connector on laptop I usually post from so this is from iPhone and may be updated someday. My Senior Tahoe Value Pass is blacked out all Saturdays at KIrkwood and Northstar so I drove an hour to Palisades and parked near to and loaded Red Dog at...

Another best laid plans...I planned to go to Palisades Alpine on Friday, April 26. Then not sure whether it was serendipity or worse problem, but I ended up back at Kirkwood today and it was great! I had a delay due to a self-inflicted vehicle problem that required professional help and resulted...

Yesterday was the hardest freeze in about a week so you wanted to be on the E-facing or groomed until noon. Groomed Sentinel was firm in morning and groomed Wall, necessary to ski the top of it to get to Eagle Bowl, was very firm and getting scraped off into early afternoon. It was the first day...

Maybe a better title would be CA Spring 2024. Seems like Palisades is trying hard this Spring to have more than Mammoth. Lifts scheduled for today at Mammoth 8 + gondola vs. 15 at Palisades + Funitel & Tram and 6 at Alpine (counting Subway and Meadow, but not counting carpet or Base to Base...

The best laid plans...Within an hour of my previous post friend I was staying with at Kirkwood got up with beginning of a cold. Overnight freeze was stronger than Mon/Tues/Wed with low well below freezing. He rode with me to Kirkwood and skied 9 runs on E-facing Cornice, including one into...

Wednesday April 24, my second Wednesday in a row at Kirkwood. We skied from 935-320 with about a 45 min lunch break at table outside closed umbrella bar and had to move into sun as shade got too cold. There was much better overnight freeze than Tuesday. Runs of the day were an early close-in...

Tuesday, April 23 I returned to Kirkwood after three days at home where I got my tires rotated (free and keeps mileage warranty), pulled weeds for a couple hours, took dogs for two walks and saw my son and his girlfriend every day and had dinner with them twice. I went to my appt. on Monday...

"EpicMix is not always accurate" is an understatement for Kirkwood this season, but maybe some of the missing lifts last week were due to no line so I usually breezed under the EpicMix scanner. More likely is that some lift never were counted. Surprisingly, the new-to-me Avocet watch you sold me...

Not sure if you missed my point that riding many slow lifts at Kirkwood makes it harder to get high vertical. They have verticals listed on 1973 map that I took photo of and posted above, but the only lifts I usually ride of their original four are chair 2 to get to Backside, Whiskey runs and...

Friday 4/19 Friend I was staying with at his Kirkwood cabin and I drove separately the mile or so to VIP lot and loaded Reut chair about 9:30 and skied Buckboard groomer to Cornice chair. Road to Buckboard was a little slow, maybe I was burning in rub-on wax while N-facing groomer was fast. We...

Not much new from skiing Thursday, 4/18 at Kirkwood, but I won't let that stop me from writing. Friend and his son who was a liftee, then cat driver/snowmaker at Kirkwood, then worked on lift maintenance at Heavenly, and I started at 10 after getting shuttle ride from cabin to near Cornice lift...

My friend’s seasonal renters moved out on 4/15. He was lucky that Kirkwood extended their season for two weeks after originally scheduled 4/14 closure. He could not come up until late afternoon and will stay until 4/28 closing. I left San Jose at 525, (Altamont Pass sunrise with Sierra visible...

Is Mammoth going to close the same day (5/27) as Palisades Tahoe? They are already running fewer lifts (14). Palisades has 19 scheduled today on Olympic Valley side including Silverado which didn't open until mid-March this season plus 9 more on Alpine side. Other bad news includes Alpine side...

Cloud Cruiser, only available on Alaska Airlines flights, was good. They didn't charge me for this on LAX-SJC flight. They didn't give me a glass either. Return flight was a much better deal than flight down where we got the last two seats on SFO-MZT nonstop (only flies on Saturdays) including...

While Mammoth says 151/176 runs open, they closed a lot of lifts for the season yesterday including chair 1 to have replacement done before next season. Thanks for reminder that gondola is closed for maintenance for three weeks after Memorial Day. Still wondering if they will extend season into...