Tag: Lake Tahoe

Snow and Rain in Tahoe

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After far too many dry warm weeks, we finally got a big snow storm across the Sierra in mid-February and Darlene and I dashed up to Tahoe with the cats just ahead of it to enjoy the snow for a couple of weeks.  Resi and Aiden joined us for the first week and we got a couple of days in at Northstar before and after the big dump.  Later in the week, I met up with Troy and Aiden at Homewood for three days as more snow piled up.  Unfortunately, Darlene wasn’t feeling well and missed out on the fresh powder.

We then joined Jon, Stan, Bill, Jim and Lewis for our annual ski week, getting a day in at Palisades before the rain came in for a couple of days to wreck all that fresh powder.  So we had a couple of board game days together before venturing back out at NorthStar and Palisades Alpine.  Over the first weekend in March, Jon and Roland joined us for more gaming and we got in another day at Alpine before eventually packing up and heading home.

A short video montage of our skiing over a couple of weeks.

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Mama Bear Visits

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My brother didn’t fully secure the bear-proof trash bin cabinet while staying at the Tahoe house recently and a mama bear and her cubs managed to get into it. That wasn’t caught on video since their truck was blocking the camera, but you can see mama try the door to the truck before moving on. She was back again a couple of days later to see if anything more was to be found.  Secure your trash!

Tahoe Skiing

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The 2024-25 ski season in Tahoe wasn’t great.  Plenty of moisture but that often included rain which would muck up the snow and freeze hard overnight and then it was often really warm, in the 40’s and 50’s through the whole season.  We did hit up Northstar and Sugar Bowl over three days with Geof and Jennifer in early January, and a few days at Palisades and Alpine before and after our ski trip / road trip to Colorado and Utah in March.

We also encountered a bobcat along the road in our neighborhood who was so focused on what was happening down the street that he didn’t care that we stopped alongside of him to gawk and take pictures.

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Bear in the Garage

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A bear wandered into the open garage while I was outside working on some wiring on the front porch.  I would not have known he was there except that a woman stopped her car in front of the house a minute or so later to take pictures.

He found a little paper bag of trash that I was collecting while I was working – it had a food wrapper in it along with some wiring scrap.  I had to shoo him off twice before he finally gave up and left for good.

A Tahoe Layover

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Heading out in the newly restored camper van, Darlene and I had a bit of an unexpected layover in Tahoe as several house maintenance and repair chores ended up taking a lot more time and Hera developed a new health issue.  We did take a few days off for some mountain biking including some of the trails from the house near Brockway Summit and taking the Emigrant Trail out to Stampede Reservoir from Prosser Creek.

We also joined Mike and Nanci on the Flume Trail (a well known trail that overlooks Lake Tahoe along the east shore).  We started at Spooner Lake, climbed up to Marlette Lake where Mike went for a brief swim and we took a snack break:

We then joined the Flume Trail where Mike promptly tumbled off trail somehow and tangled himself in his bike frame. Happily no one chose to tumble off the steep slopes of the Flume Trail proper but then Nanci had a nasty fall on the ride down the Tunnel Creek Road.  With help from several others, we ended up waiting for emergency services to drive a buggy up to treat her with pain meds and move her down to a waiting ambulance.  At the Truckee hospital, she was found to have broken a clavicle and a rib.  Ouch, not the most fun way to end the day!

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Spring Skiing in Tahoe

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Tahoe got just a little bit more snow in the first week of May, but Darlene and I couldn’t make it up until this past week – just as the temperatures climbed back into the high 50’s and low 60’s.  We got in three short days at Alpine and Palisades – bailing mid-day each day as the snow started getting grabby.  I got to try my new X-Wing pilot costume and Darlene borrowed my Marvin the Martian outfit:

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