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Tahoe Wiki Update - more driving/money saving/lodging tips added

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:43:31 -0800

I have updated Tahoe Wiki to include the following tips:

Those are things I've learned over the years of going to Tahoe. Enjoy.

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Tahoe Wiki is Live

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:41:12 -0800

Just when the first major snow storm hit Lake Tahoe today, I set up tahoewiki.org which is powered by wik.is. I will share the tips I've learned over the year about beautiful Lake Tahoe

Free free to join and contribute.

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Tahoe Vacation Guide: Don't Book Your Skiing/Snowboarding Trip to Tahoe for Thanksgiving or Christmas NOW

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:18:37 -0800

It is early Nov. You are so ready to get head-start of your 2007-2008 skiing/snowboarding season by booking a trip to Tahoe for Thanksgiving or Christmas now. But you still see sunny weather in Tahoe area.

So should you bet or not?

Probably not because it's really a hit or miss whether mother nature will dump enough snow by Thanksgiving and Christmas.

In my past experience, most of time, there's not enough snow in Thanksgiving. Sometimes, there's not enough snow in Christmas. For example, last year was a really bad drought year in Tahoe, and the season didn't really get started until Jan.

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Such a Dry Winter! Global Warming Looming

Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:46:32 -0800

It has been such a weired winter in San Francisco Bay Area. Record low temperature with dry weather, very little rain.

There has been really lack of snow in Lake Tahoe area. It's 40% off the normal snow pack.

This feels like the effect of Global warming. For California, profound changes as planet warms

This is scaring. No more snow sports in Lake Tahoe in the future?

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Snowboarding Seaon Finale: Iceboarding in Diamond Peak

Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:16:18 -0700

I went up to Diamond Peak expecting a blast to end my 2005-2006 snowboarding season last Sat.

OMG. I was truly disappointed. It's supposed to snow a bit the night before. But when I snowboarded in the morning, the surface was really icy and hard. I suspected it may have rained instead of snowing in Diamond Peak. The four black diamond runs except "Diamond Peak" were virtually un-skiable or un-snowboardable because they had too many icy bumps.

Things got a little bit better in the afternoon as the surface got a little bit soft after people skied on it in the morning.

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March Madness in Tahoe - the Best Powder Ever I've experienced

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 21:45:02 -0800

I went to snowboard in Alpine Meadow and Diamond Peak in Tahoe this past weekend. Wow! What a powder heaven Tahoe has become in March!

On Sat, I arrived at Alpine Meadow at 9:15 and waited for like half an hour to get in and park. Their parking lot got to be full on that day.

I liked accessing the mountain by Summit Six Chair lift, a high-speed chair that sits 6 people. I started my first couple runs off Alpine Bowl trail, which was groomed. Then I stayed on Sun Spot trail and other trails on the right side of the lift because these had much more powder, and I could just access them without "skating". These trails really didn't look like having so much deep powder until I was on them. They were un-groomed and had lots of big bumps.

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Snowboarding on a Powder Day in Diamond Peak, Lake Tahoe

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 21:19:29 -0800

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.

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Winter finally arrived. Hailstorm in Emeryville, Bay Area. It's dumping snow in Sierra

Fri, 03 Mar 2006 17:34:57 -0800

It has been a weird winter in Northern California.

At around 4 o'clock this afternoon, a mild hailstorm hit Emeryville.

A strong snowstorm has moved into Sierra and dumped a couple feet of powder.

In this winter, it had been warmer than normal. A couple of rainstorms hit Sierra to disappoint skiers/snowboarders.

Well, winter finally came.

The forecast predicts that it's going to dump snow throughout next week. I am just happy to get fresh powder.

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homewood

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:56:32 -0800

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homewood

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:56:10 -0800

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