California Firsthand Reports

Roads are closed. Fortunately trapped here ;). One lift open today for the afternoon, deep pow!

great conditions, not busy at all.

We got out yesterday at 11a when 395 north opened. Went to Squaw, great light snow but only 3 lifts running today for Av’s and winds.

Snow was good. no new snow though. Very few places were icy. Wind was calm. I was there Friday for night skiing on the 8th

Great time with my son on the snow sled

Amazing day (feb 8th)

what a fun couple of days.. The snow here just keeps coming.

There's icy patches, a car flipped in front of me on Wednesday. Stay away if you have bald tires or rear wheel drive. As for snow for your kids below the base of the lift/parking lot, there isn't any. Buy lift tickets, go tubing/skiing, support the inexpensive, awesome mountain, don't create "snow play traffic". $5 to park in the ski area lot and hike up to where the snow starts. Sheriff comes by and checks dashboards/issues citations.

Soooooooo much snow!! So fun

no snow

Today was insane. Chair Eight was untouched and thigh to hip deep with DRY LIGHT BEAUTY. When dodge is good It’s amazing, we’re Tahoe is usually skied up within the first hour at the pockets and powder to be found everywhere for days.it’s extremely good where are most places in Tahoe or speed up within the first hour he still has pockets of beauty into the afternoon and if you’re smart? Beyond.

sooo deep and so fun!

snowboarded at Eagle lodge today. Nice powder, but top of the lift had major gusts of wind. Took 2nd lift up to the top that was open and conditions were so bad could barely see 10 feet in front of you die ri winds. powder so deep if you fell nearly impossible to get back up again. Will wait for snow to drop before going again

Powder powder powder powder!! Sendy day at Squaw. Freezing cold and windy, upper mountain was closed for most of the day. KT22 was skiing fantastic. New snow on top of a sun crust from last week.

great day on mt yesterday! they were blowing snow which sucked boarding thru but all and all, conditions pretty good!

Saw the question about huge base but only partially opened. The answer is avalanche risk. Tons of snow last week. Even more this week. It's wet and heavy. Also with this blizzard winds at top were over 100mph. Mid mountain was 60mph and that was even a little sketchy. most days they've opened late, and closed early on some. I get the safety emphasis, but delays are poorly posted. Still the skiing has been great, hence the 4 stars. But also agree with past below about $$$. I'm skiing on ikon pass, but I'd be a little pissed to drop $169 for a shortened day on a partially opened mountain.

January 15, 2019

fresh powder yesterday

Excellent day to teach without the support harness. Snow was so soft.

Runs are clear and coverage is pretty good

Great day yesterday, sunshine after the storm, great skiing off granite. Got a bit warm towards the afternoon, sunny facing aspects a bit crusty today.

This was January 6th after 16” reported. Got early turns and lines. This run was at Jibboom. EPIC.

Perfect pow wow!

it snowed! got some fresh powder finally for 2019!

Easily another foot of snow at the base last night. Winds are dying off since last night but it is still windy.

As good as it gets around here

Great day on the mountain!

Yep it snowed last night! About 30-50cm at the base.

went dec 18,19,20...all 3 days amazing...season tickets is already worth it...after a life time waiting for the opportunity...the runs open were enough for us...no wait ,great conditions....

Great conditions and coverage. Fantastic skiing and more expert terain will open up with additional snow.

early season conditions thin some areas but great overall only four lifts open no lines every little people on the mountain on sunday

Northstar

Hard to ski down with views like this from the top...

Epic start to the season last Sunday, lots of Snow and no crowds. Backside closed for now until ski patrol verifies the runs, or more people come. Up to finance lift operations.

China Peak open for WEEKEND ONLY as of December 1st. As of Dec 4 until Dec 15, open WEEKENDS ONLY!

the snow over the week has provided a soft top, but later in the day the icey base from the rain before the snow makes it a little trickier. overall decent for early season.

3-5 feet of fresh in the past week.

Great for Nov! They popped the top over the weekend. Sunday was pretty empty and running laps with little to no lines around the mountain. Coverage thinned out in some areas, but all were well marked. If you venture to the top keep in mind you should be in good knowledge of board or ski control to get down the mountain. It wasnt icy but Cornice has moguls and road runner is only about 10ft wide with a cliff on the side. be safe, have fun and get stoked for more snow this week!

1 week ago...opening day...had a blast!!...didnt think a storm could come soon enough...it came..

Snowed heavily till 2pm then turned to sleet and rain. Snow gives good control but is not very fast. About 12 features on the one run that's open.

8:32am Heavenly will not open today due to high winds again.

not to bad for the first runs of the season

Spring skiing at its finest!

Great conditions before noon. afternoon snow is slushy and choppy. upper runs are better in afternoon

Great winter conditions! But Cal side closed for the season as us Comet lift.

warm and wet. almost the end of season

First time at Squaw. Pretty nice spring conditions.

Great bluebird day! powder stashes are all over the mountain in the afternoon.

Very good coverage with lots of soft forgiving snow. Warming quickly, spring skiing conditions developing, but upper half of mountain still in peak form

the mountain runs are fully covered in recent snow, hard to find ice patches even in the afternoon.

A little more pow today

Hard packed powder on groomed runs and thick heavy sludge on the the non groomed stuff. Mostly a nice sunny day but early afternoon for more windy and things started to get icy in certain spots.

Solid day prob 30 inches

little more icy today, but good groomers and a lot less people than the weekend

There today incredible blue sky the groomed runs were perfect , but, off runs were pretty chopped up

So nice

Sugarbowl deep

After several days of blizzard snows , now packed powder everywhere

0" of Snow here but definitely got a couple feet of sand

Great ski yesterday 3/15/18 snowed almost all day soft powder everywhere had a great day!

Currently storming but Pow everywhere and more dropping, get up here!

we had the best time.

Powder is gone but still ok conditions. It wasn't crowded at all. Lovely day..

Early Morning Corduroy Speed Laps!!

View of avalanche from top of Climax to bottom of chair 5 on Saturday during storm. Photo on Sunday. Chair 5 opened Monday

Entire mountain open. Light powder on backside yesterday. Beautiful view on Santiago.

Skied avalanche on Dry Creek open yesterday. Great snow. incredible to see.

once the top opened up conditions were very very good! chair 9 was the place to be. Friday before the avalanche was face shots all the way down yeww!

temperature 20 degrees 7 feet of new powder snow

on Saturday, the snow was 7 feet deep. It had been rolled but mostly skier tracked and much powder

You’d be insane to not love the conditions. 8 feet in 7 days. It’s deeeeeeeep

2/26 fresh snow. still a little thin in some places. more backside open but westbowl is closed

There are some areas of poor coverage, so look out for rocks and ice lurking beneath.

I’d say Squaw got a good 8 inches of dry powder today. Cold but fun skiing.

Pretty good skiing at Alpine. Packed powder. A little icy at the end of the day but we did see a dinosaur!