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Tahoe Vertical
Check out the Tahoe Vertical Challenge. A way to help raise money fot the Sierra Avalanche Center. -M The 2011 Backcountry Vertical Challenge represents Lake Tahoe’s first ever FREE, community-wide fundraising initiative to benefit the Sierra Avalanche Center. In a quest to attain operational dollars for Lake Tahoe’s local avalanche forecasting agency, Alpenglow Sports... »
Man Made Snow
We use to ski at Sierra Summit near Huntington Lake out of Fresno, CA. It was once and is again called China Peak, after the highest point on the resort. At the time they had a bunch of these cheesy info signs on the (fixed grip) lift towers like: It can be sunny in... »
Great Tahoe Flume Race 2010 Results
Here’s a photo of The Grisly Bike Geek riding a cyclocross bike in a mountain bike race. As usual, Stubbie (Gregg Stone of Mighty Mobile Bicycle Repair in Truckee, CA) stuffed it. STUBBBIIIEEEEE!!!!!! I did ok, here’s a pic of me about to pass a dude. The flats were the only place I made... »
Bacon Trips
TAHOE TAHOE TAHOE If you haven’t heard about the Travelocity Roaming Gnome contest, it’s like a social media grudge match between Tahoe and The Wasatch. Tahoe kicks ass, so click over to the Roaming Gnome Facebook Page and vote Tahoe! Skiing Pics Proof that Tahoe is better: Some photos from a short Ski Tour... »
Good Skiing This week!
The Restless Ape, Kangdiggity and I hit Mt. Rose this morning. less than a foot of actual powder, but it was really nice. Good base. We found a lot of great lines through the trees below the Blazing Zephyr. Gonna go back Friday. So Far Taldor and Kangdiggity are in. Who else? -M »
Feral Snow: Lady's edition… (it's not what you think)
So I usually ski with my sisters and my dog, all of whoom are ladies. (some more than others) So this episode features them and our friend Eva. Carrie, Callie, Eva and Juni the snow dog! Tahoe Avalanche conditions were pretty chill Saturday with the previous week’s snowfall setting up well and the windloading... »
Another good day in the Tahoe Backcountry!
Went up with my dad, sisters and SteadyB. Found Pow and lots of it. It was sort of surreal in the cloud, but an awesome morning. Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. -M »
Feral Snow: Incline Lake Peak
You can always find freshie that keeps you off the rocks if you know where to look. Here’s a little something i threw together from a trip with my sisters and SteadyB on Saturday. Feral Snow #1 Incline Lake Peakon Vimeo. While we were starving for snow on Saturday and hiking through minefields to... »
Schralpine opening tomorrow!
Yo StripTards! Since so many of us ski @ Alpine Meadows a lot and have passes, I thought you’d like this video I shot on snowmaking @ the Tahoe Resort. Super cool! The guy in the video, Peter “Foul Weather Minxy” Minks was on a video shoot of a climbing movie on the Eiger... »
Alpine meadows renames a trail in honor of the bacon strip…
Could be a real headline here if we rally together and launch a successful campaign to get Alpine Meadows Ski Resort to rename a trail in our esteemed honor. What other local blog / band of dirty hippy mountain bikers and backcountry skiers has a bigger presence @ Alpine Meadows than us? VNasty is... »