Snowboarding on a Powder Day in Diamond Peak, Lake Tahoe
Submitted by kai on Mon, 2006-03-06 22:19. ::
I went up to Diamond Peak for a one day ski trip on Sat, leaving at around 5am, and arrived at 9am.
It was snowing heavily for a couple of days before Sat morning. I was hoping that I wouldn't get stuck on the road.
There's a checkpoint at AppleGate, but no one was there enforcing anything. But there's snow which meant the snow level was low.
There's chain control about 25 miles west of Sugar Bowl on HW 80. But it's not too bad because there's not a lot of traffic in the morning. I actually got to the exit to Sugar Bowl before 8am. Just how I wished I'd like Sugar Bowl more and not drive for an extra hour to get to Diamond Peak. There werere also lots of cars lining up to get to HW 89 from HW 80. Fortunately, I didn't need to take HW 89.
I chatted with a couple of people that came up to Tahoe on Fri.
Here's the commute time:
from Burlingame(near South San Francisco): 3:00pm - midnight
San Jose: 12:00pm - midnight
Sacramento: midnight - 6am(Sat)
It's really a horrible drive up during snowstorm time.
But people were rewarded with a beautiful sunny powder day in Tahoe.
Here are the videos to share:
It was snowing heavily for a couple of days before Sat morning. I was hoping that I wouldn't get stuck on the road.
There's a checkpoint at AppleGate, but no one was there enforcing anything. But there's snow which meant the snow level was low.
There's chain control about 25 miles west of Sugar Bowl on HW 80. But it's not too bad because there's not a lot of traffic in the morning. I actually got to the exit to Sugar Bowl before 8am. Just how I wished I'd like Sugar Bowl more and not drive for an extra hour to get to Diamond Peak. There werere also lots of cars lining up to get to HW 89 from HW 80. Fortunately, I didn't need to take HW 89.
I chatted with a couple of people that came up to Tahoe on Fri.
Here's the commute time:
from Burlingame(near South San Francisco): 3:00pm - midnight
San Jose: 12:00pm - midnight
Sacramento: midnight - 6am(Sat)
It's really a horrible drive up during snowstorm time.
But people were rewarded with a beautiful sunny powder day in Tahoe.
Here are the videos to share:
Tags: snowboard tahoe diamondpeak
