Lake Tahoe - Skiing Memories

Kirkwood Ski Area
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Roman Fuchs nether CC-BY-SA license

Lake Tahoe is a really particular house for me. It was my annual Spring Break destination for a calendar week of skiing and...uh...other activities land inward my younger days.

Lots of memories from those days...winning over $400 on roulette starting amongst a dollar too treating my friends to a midnite Billy Preston concert at Harrah's amongst the money; nearly skiing off a cliff land next person nosotros idea knew what they were doing (he did become off, nosotros didn't...luckily it was deep pulverisation at the bottom); existence at that topographic point the yr over 240" of snowfall cruel inward simply a few days setting off a deadly avalanche at Alpine Meadows; too sitting inward a hot tub when it was 5 below.

Now that this year's storms have arrived, the snowfall around the lake is ameliorate than it's been inward years. Tahoe is dwelling job solid to over a dozen ski areas.  Here are my favorites:

1. Kirkwood - nigh 25 miles southwest of Tahoe.  Simply the best house I've always skiied.  Very challenging amongst some remote opened upward bowls too skinny chutes.  Worth the assay to larn to.  Limited adaptive skiing available (mostly for blind skiers).

2. Alpine Meadows - Large, opened upward bowls.  Great crowd, picayune attitude.  Skiing available slow into the season...I've skiied hither inward June.  Full adaptive ski program.
3. Mt. Rose/Slide Mountain - Scary steep gradient amongst unbelievable views of Reno on the Slide Mountain side of things.

4. Sierra-at-Tahoe - Known every bit Sierra Ski Ranch inward my Spring Break days.  Mellow, fun place.  Not besides challenging, but this is where nosotros almost went off the cliff during a run through the trees.

5. Heavenly Valley - Massive.  Expensive.  And a fight overrated.  I create similar the extremely long runs too existence able to offset inward i terra firma too goal inward another.

6. Squaw Valley - Eh, I didn't actually bring besides much fun here.  Much ameliorate at whatsoever of the resorts above.

 -Darryl


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