tseeb
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I had a bad start and somewhat early end with good skiing in between. Since it was New Year’s Day and I have four days planned, I did not leave San Jose until 6:30 AM. I was making pretty good time until I passed one too many cars in the last passing lane before the long downhill to Silver Lake. A CHP officer already had two cars pulled over and waved me over. He gave me a ticket for 35 in 25 mph chain control area and said he could have written it for much higher. I don’t think I will fight this one so it looks like I better keep it down to 35-40 while in chain control for a while.
We arrived Kirkwood at 10 AM and parked in the lot at Chair 7 as all the parking on the road was taken. It was snowing heavily with some wind in the parking lot, but was not bad on Chair 7 where there was 1-3 inches of new, not very dry snow as the snow level was close to 7,000 feet. My son and I did a couple of runs on Cornice where I was able to ski yesterday’s 4-6 inches new plus today’s 2-3 inches fresh. We moved to Chair 10 which skied very well and found places where there was close to a foot of untracked.
We went back towards the car so I could pickup lunch. Chair 7 was stopped and I heard people saying they were told it could be 5 to 60 minutes. On the way to the lodge, I heard they were going to shutdown chairs 1 to 4 so they would have enough power to run the core chairs. Chair 7 started running while we ate lunch in very crowded lodge. It was dumping outside. We went up chair 7, then Cornice and saw the chair stop shortly after we got off and could hear sirens coming from the base. We decided to head towards Chair 7 where we were parked and noticed a lot of smoke coming from Kirkwood’s power plant. The skiing between Olympic and Sentinel was great, but all chairs were stopped except for running to unload those stuck on them, We loaded up and stopped for tacos at the Kirkwood Inn, but they were also without power so we continued to South Tahoe. We passed a few fire trucks going the other way and got out of chain control at the bottom of Carson Pass, I hope they can get some lifts going on 1/2; otherwise we may be paying for Homewood, Diamond Peak, Sierra or, if I can get a deal, Heavenly. 9 runs/10,650 vertical
We arrived Kirkwood at 10 AM and parked in the lot at Chair 7 as all the parking on the road was taken. It was snowing heavily with some wind in the parking lot, but was not bad on Chair 7 where there was 1-3 inches of new, not very dry snow as the snow level was close to 7,000 feet. My son and I did a couple of runs on Cornice where I was able to ski yesterday’s 4-6 inches new plus today’s 2-3 inches fresh. We moved to Chair 10 which skied very well and found places where there was close to a foot of untracked.
We went back towards the car so I could pickup lunch. Chair 7 was stopped and I heard people saying they were told it could be 5 to 60 minutes. On the way to the lodge, I heard they were going to shutdown chairs 1 to 4 so they would have enough power to run the core chairs. Chair 7 started running while we ate lunch in very crowded lodge. It was dumping outside. We went up chair 7, then Cornice and saw the chair stop shortly after we got off and could hear sirens coming from the base. We decided to head towards Chair 7 where we were parked and noticed a lot of smoke coming from Kirkwood’s power plant. The skiing between Olympic and Sentinel was great, but all chairs were stopped except for running to unload those stuck on them, We loaded up and stopped for tacos at the Kirkwood Inn, but they were also without power so we continued to South Tahoe. We passed a few fire trucks going the other way and got out of chain control at the bottom of Carson Pass, I hope they can get some lifts going on 1/2; otherwise we may be paying for Homewood, Diamond Peak, Sierra or, if I can get a deal, Heavenly. 9 runs/10,650 vertical