Well, I'm updating this thread again.
Since most of the resorts have now closed for the season, I am finally able to admit that I won't be making it back out to the slopes this year. I wanted to so bad.
Tahoe was so awesome this year it was incredible. It wasn't just me but most of the locals and snowdogs are calling it 'epic'. The day we arrived in Reno it snowed 3 feet in Reno. My brother-in-laws plane from Boston/Denver was the last one in. We drove south through white-out conditions to catch 50 through the pass. As we passed 5 or 6 cars buried in the snow on the side of the road, I knew why I reserved a 4wd ahead of time. After we got to Tahoe, we heard 15 minutes later on the radio that they had just closed 50.
It snowed 3 feet at our condo that night and 2 feet while we skiied Heavenly the next day. We had big designs on driving to the North Shore area for maybe a snowcat trip but we could barely even get to town from our condo at 8,000'.
We were not even able to get to our favorite area, Kirkwood, until Wednesday. The road to Kirkwood was closed due to avalanches for three days. If you were stuck at the resort, you truly had the place to yourself. We did finally get there, along with the entire Bay Area, on Wed. and it was perfect. See pics.
All in all, a fantastic trip. It snowed a total of 9 feet during the week we were there. Kirkwood's season total was 800" (that's 66+ feet !!!!)
Anyway, here are the pics...........
The first day when this was about the only picture we copuld get through all the snow (note the shit-eating grins.......)
The snow on the access road outside the condo......
The view from the top of chair 6 at Kirkwood. (Go to the source photo for a closer look. It is really incredible. )
On our way up to ride 'The Wave' at Kirkwood and all it's black diamond goodness.....
I was listening to a ska version of 'Walkin' on Sunshine' on the mp3 player during this lift ride to the top............I can close my eyes and hear it again.............'and it's startin' to feel good'....
And after we ski our legs off and they have to lick us off the lifts we get to the bottom and get this one last parting shot.....
Note: The first quote in my sig is what I tell myself as look over the edge before jumping into some of those lines......