Headed up the mountain today to check out the new Tamarack lodge at the top of the gondola. Today marked the 101 day of construction, these guys are moving along at a rapid pace. Amazing job to get this lodge open for this season, especially since all material has to be brought up to 9150 feet. Check out what the inside looks like.
The snowmakers have been hard at work trying to get the mountain ready for opening day. I went up today to check out the action. Nice cold temperatures are helping out big time and as you will see in this video, snowmaking is currently going off. The crews are working on Cail trail and over on Orions.
We got some snow finally. 8-12 inches of snow fell up on the mountain last night. I headed up the tram to the top of gunbarrel to grab some shots. The lake looked awesome, especially with the new snow in all the trees. The season is coming, check out this quick video from today.
Here is a video I shot/edited and was produced by Fred Wymore for Heavenly Mountain. There are lots of new improvements this year at Heavenly, the flagship improvement being the new Tamarack Lodge at the top of the Gondola. Also new Vail wide is Epic Mix, which reminds me of the vertical plus program that Sierra at Tahoe had back in the day. Should be fun to track my skiing stats for the season.
It’s official the west coast’s largest snowmaking system is fired up. I headed up the mountain at 6:30, driving up the Nevada side from stagecoach to the top of the Gondola. It was a beautiful morning, with some nice and cold temps. When I got to the top of the gondola it looked like mid winter, the whole top of the mountain was engulfed with snow. I have filmed snowmaking a handful of times over the past couple of seasons, this was by far the most snow I’ve seen being produced at one time.
Winter is right around the corner here in Lake Tahoe. Temperatures are starting to drop, and hopefully the snow will start flying. There were some crazy clouds out this morning, so I headed up the mountain to grab a couple of shots.