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Mosquitos in the meadows at 9000ft I think its a bad omen

Was thinking about a long tour in the Castle Peak area today...leave a car at the Negro Canyon trail head and then park another up near Donner Summit...head out Andesite Ridge, etc. Way too optimistic...only dirt at the Negro Canyon trail head. Skinned up the south face of Castle - firm snow but edgeable. Super thin.

skinning



descent from upper bench lookers right of peak



and a little lower down



hopefully some snow this week --we need it

Straight up Blizzard conditions at the lake

Ran across some stickerage on local bc quick hit spot. Winds were howling and slabbing snow up high, but the riding conditions were primo. It's kinda that sweet spot of sorta low tide, but enough snow to go fast and plenty of obstacles to launch on the way down.

Photos of todays sesh

March 8th Backcountry just south of Tahoe

Silver

Bowlrider

And a little vid of that same trip with Aaron and Kelly.

Full moon splittin last night

Update


The flakes are quality, and I suspect caltrans will soon put up chain control...

Conditions "In the Bay"



It looked like a Lotta Peeps were gettin after Tallac today! With a nice skintrack, That may be on the menu for tommarow

Ok, about time for an update. Its been snowing about an inch or two everynight the last couple of nights, and today I was lookin forward to gettin after it with some friends. We went out to Kit Carson pass and the snow was light and deep with lots of windloading on the ridges. Conditions looked a bit sketch on the drop in, so we dug a pit and the pit confirmed the sketchyness of the ridge

Column test failing with a few light hand taps (Just over a foot deep)

Bowlrider gives us his best caveman pose

Still some crazy windloading goin on (Blowin like a Bitch at CP today) We still found this sketch layer so be careful in your line choice

Lunch



Another beautiful day in the Tahoe BC April is delivering the goods this season

Snow is almost gone, but the Yaking is primo