After 5 days of pounding snow and 58 inches later, the sky’s cleared in true Tahoe fashion. Nothing like 5 feet of snow and a blue bird pow day…did I mention it’s also the day before Thanksgiving! pretty unheard of for this time of year. Also the mountain is almost completely open, giving us top to bottom skiing. Can’t wait for a day off to go out and play in the snow.
With multiple storms hitting the Tahoe area we’ve seen almost 3 feet of snow fall so far. What an awesome way to start the season. I can’t remember many Novembers here in Tahoe that we have gotten this much snow before December. Today was a tough shoot, the past storms have produced high winds creating blizzard conditions.
Super excited for this years ski season and with opening day done and in the bag, it’s official the season has began. With storms moving in to the area, we kicked off with a foot of fresh new snow. The runs were busy as everyone was up playing in the snow. I went out with 4 models and made some turns. First shoot of the season was a success.
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.
Another foot of snow fell last night here in Tahoe, and it’s still dumping. Storms this week have produced high winds along the ridges, keeping the upper mountain closed. Today is one of the first days the entire mountain is open. The temperatures have been very cold, which in turn has dropped some really light snow. Dane Henry and myself headed out to grab some shots and make some turns. We made first tracks in Mott Canyon, dropping Susanne’s Saddle and North 40. The snow is amazing, some of the lightest I have skied in a while. Dane and I took turns filming each other and a couple of friends. Check out the edit from today.
After a scouting mission a couple of weeks ago, Dane Henry and myself headed out to killebrew Canyon with Ty Dayberry and Ben Schmitt, two ripping skiers. With escort from Heavenly’s ski patrol we were able to get into Killebrew before the general public. Once again Dane was on the ridge line shooting the wide shots, while I followed the athletes grabbing the tight shots. Here is my edit, it’s also playing on the front page of freeskier.com