Sierra-At-Tahoe gave snowboarders a little early season taste of deep, deep Sierra snow with a sneak opening on Tuesday, November 23, 2010. The resort had been buried in nearly nine feet of snow in the past seven days and resort General Manger John Rice (pictured right) could not have been happier.
“Up until last week, I wasn’t really sure how this season would go,” he said Tuesday morning. “We don’t have snow making so our business depends on the weather. But how about nine feet of snow the week before Thanksgiving? That will do, huh?”
Sierra’s lift crew fired up a few of the lower lifts (Nob Hill and Easy Rider) at little after 10 AM, but saved the Grandview chair (and the top of the mountain) for a surprise 12:30 opening. That’s when everyone got to float (or boat) through nine feet of fresh snow.
With no base layer in the trees it was absolutely bottomless (we know, we looked in several different spots). Upper Dynamite was technically closed but that didn’t stop anyone from exploiting the terrain. It was first tracks and snow-spackled smiles all around. We heard rumors that Abe and Elijah Teter were out getting some, but they we way too stealthy for us, unfortunately. It would have been fun to run a few with them.
This morning (Wednesday, November 24, 2010) Sierra is reporting clear skies, 7 degree temperatures, and an entire mountain of perfect, mid-winter snow. Damn.
[Link: Sierra-At-Tahoe]
