What a run

Record breaking March!!! It wad the snowiest March on record in Lake Tahoe, and my back can attest to that. I even had to shovel the roof of the house because the doors weren't closing properly anymore. All the snow came to an abrupt end about a week ago and since then we've had unseasonable high temps, making for some strange snow conditions and weird avalanches. I've been taking some time to rest my heel and my body and do some spring cleaning and home maintenance. I also took a little time to throw together a sweet little video from the past month. What a run we had...

Oh My God

Its hard to believe how much powder we've skied lately. I couldn't be happier, looks like a record breaking year for us this year. I haven't seen anything like this in the 10 years I've spent here... We've been hitting airs and lines that have never been possible before, and much more on the way...

The hits just keep on coming

After an almost spirit crushing 6 week dry spell we have been back in the powder here in Tahoe for the past three weeks or so. Looks like it might stay that way for a while with the jet stream lining us up and high pressure settling in the Gulf of Alaska. A few days ago we got a warm wet storm that left us with 15 inches of dense awesome powder. Great snow for everything, especially skiing some steeps, short Tahoe steeps, but tons of fun nonetheless. Check out these little video clips of some of the fun I've been having lately.

recent skiing fun

The snow has stayed incredibly good and we even got 4 more feet through the past week. Here's a few little videos I put together from the past several days...

Snow-maggedon!!!

After six weeks of the driest winter weather I think I have ever experienced, the pow has returned to Lake Tahoe. Winter has returned with a vengeance. Most people couldn't be happier, I for one, am overjoyed. I wrote a little article for ESPN.com and got into a few photos with local photographers. Check it out here:

http://espn.go.com/action/freeskiing/blog/_/post/6144605/return-pow

The snow has been staying really cold and we're still skiing powder all over the place. Here's a short little video of me trying out my new Volkl Shiro's. Best skis ever made, quite possibly...

Milking the Powder

After pretty good success finding reasonable snow conditions yesterday I went out on a little tour on Stanford Rock with my buddy Oscar. We found some more good snow, still dust on crust and transforming into a thinner and denser layer of powder. We explored a few lines that we don't regularly ski in an attempt to search out some untracked. We found good open slopes but some discontinuous fall lines. It was pretty fun to ski some more powder and play around with POV camera.

A little tour with Lynn

Today Lynn and I went out for a little tour in Ward Valley, just outside the ski area boundary of Alpine Meadows and roughly up the street from our house. It was pretty good, considering that the powder we got a few days ago is super light and on top of a hard crust, and the east wind was blowing about 60 mph threatening to blow away or ruin all of our new snow.