Posted By:

Jon aka "Flanimal"

December 6, 2021 –

After a couple warm & dry weeks the outlook for snowmaking looks great for this week. Based on current forecasts we should be able to start churning out snow in the pre-dawn hours of Thursday, 12/9 and run around the clock until at least Sunday morning. With wet bulb temps in the teens at night and low 20’s during the day, we should see the snow pile up. Then on top of that Mother Nature should offer up a gift in the form of fresh snowfall.

Then the following week, the signs are pointing towards continued cold temps, ideal for snowmaking plus a decent Sierra Storm bringing substantial accumulation.

Back to this week…our team will focus on laying down snow to connect the Judah and Village portals, plus building base on White Pine, Pioneer Trail, Trailblazer Judah Bound, Pioneer Trail, Christmas Tree Lane, Van Ruiten’s, Trolley Lane and Union Street.

Point ’em high and let the snow fly!

Josh Workman, Snow Surfaces Manager

Check out the forecast for yourself:

Posted By:

Maggie aka "The Turninator"

December 3, 2021 –

“Hoping for a nice helping of snow and cold air behind the storm for good snowmaking.” -Open Snow Tahoe

After a few early storms in October got our hopes up, November’s weather was rough, with frequent overnight inversions causing poor snowmaking conditions at night. Now finally, we’ve got something exciting on the radar and we’re tuning back in. It looks like we may be in for a pattern shift after the weekend. A wintery blip is heading our way on Monday/Tuesday and it looks like it’s bringing nice cold temps on its heels, great for snowmaking. Everyone do your snow dance, wax your skis and boards, and cross your fingers. We can’t wait for winter to arrive .

Check out the forecast for yourself:

Posted By:

Jon aka "Flanimal"

November 22, 2021 –

We had Friday, November 26 circled on the calendar as our planned opening date for the 2021/22 ski and snowboard season. We held onto hope as long as we could but with a forecast calling for more mild and dry weather in the week ahead, we must delay the start of our winter season.

This means we will not be open for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday weekend. We look forward to seeing you once we are able to spin the lifts, so stay tuned for updates. As soon as we know, we will let you know.

This will be a short snowmaking update. Snowmaking conditions were better than hoped this week. The team even passed on Turkey to run the snow guns when the temperatures were right. The rest of this week looks like mild weather but next week we should be able to fire back up. Inversions, which typically occur during the fall have hampered efforts so far this season causing the cool air to sink to the valley floor. For example, the other day it was 29 in Truckee but almost 40 on the summit.

The team will be working nightly and ready to flip the switch when Mother Nature cooperates.

Posted By:

Jon aka "Flanimal"

November 17, 2021 – We have officially kicked off snowmaking for the 2021/22 season. Technically snowmaking fired up for a few hours a couple weeks ago, but it didn’t amount to much so was given little fanfare.

During the early morning hours of this morning, the temps and wet bulb dropped allowing the crew to get down to business. Conditions were still marginal, but provided a solid 4 hours of testing, training and laying down a small white blanket. Efforts were focused on the base areas of White Pine, Jerome and Judah along with a couple runs off Christmas Tree.

The next couple nights don’t look promising for more than an hour or two of snowmaking but Friday – Sunday should give us some solid windows of prime snowmaking temps. With any luck, you will see white ribbons appear on the webcams by Monday morning.

Moving forward, we will update the snowmaker’s Notes weekly, so continue to check back in for progress reports.