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Can You Dig It?!!!!!! This is definitely not to be missed, folks! THE GREAT DIG OUT AT PALISADES! I wub this ski resort so much! I am beside myself with sublime JOY, about all the deep snowpack Tahoe has to offer! https://blog.palisadestahoe.com/general/photo-gallery-the-great-dig-out-at-palisades/ Don't forget, they got ANOTHER 2-3 FEET of cold blower POW on the way starting late Monday, you heard that right! This upcoming Monday - EVEN MORE HEAVY POWDER SNOW for Palisades! The dig-out on KT-22 is truly iconic of this season! I wish I could go up there and show those folks how to dig that snow!

I LOVE being a delivery person so much! NEVER a dull moment! I'd LOVE to try delivery in Tahoe in January in a super Nino!

Palisades is getting good heavy snows once again! https://www.palisadestahoe.com/mountain-information/webcams They might pick up 7 inches overnight! Dont look now but another significant COLD storm will demolish Palisades AGAIN next Monday- Thursday! Might dump 2-3 feet of fresh POW! Winter aint over with at Palisades! Not so fast!

I would never have imagined, that a storm could so completely fizzle out in California THIS winter. But, it did fizzle out. Wow, even the Sierras and the Rockies can get Lucy'd lmao. At least Palisades wont feel the urge to have FIVE MEN clear a small platform at the 8200' level. You could use a broom to clear that inch of fluff up there! Only nine more months to the next Sierra Winter!

This storm today has really let me down, all up and down the Sierran Cordillera. Now I feel like a fracking full-fledged debbie downer, and a brother to Ji besides. This winter sucks. Winter is ending record-early in the West, and flooding will be so bad, everything will end up washing into the Pacific or into Lake Mead. Millions of people and octillions of metric tons of mud will cascade down all of the western mountains, because winter is over, even above 13000 feet. I HATE BEING LET DOWN SO HARD. I really should have known all along. I need to find the ultimate Jump off the Cliff gif. Its a damned trainwreck, makes east Ohio look like frackin' Paradise!

They WILL beat it soon! Those aggregates are so big and fluffy! I think they are supposed to pick up maybe 3 FEET of fresh pow in the next few days! Poor palisades, getting drier and drier with time.

Forget Tahoe for now, they are barely gonna eke out 4 skinny inches of the pow. But Mammoth! The Village at Mammoth is getting hammered by powder snow right now! They are expecting 20 inches just today! https://www.mammothmountain.com/on-the-mountain/mammoth-webcam/the-village

I'm really bummed out, feelin like one hell of a Deb right now. South Cali is gonna get most of tomorrow's storm. Winter is nearly over with in the Sierra, and I have to make do with only 12 inches of new snow tomorrow at the 8200' level. Mammoth is gonna HOG nearly all of the latest Atmospheric River! I hope those snowhogs DROWN in all that spring runoff! The sun angle is getting more and more MURDEROUS, even in the famed Sierran Cordillera! Damn you to hell Mammoth and south! Maybe they'll all slide clear down Mammoth Mountain in one huge mudslide in the spring!

Its snowin' but GOOD in the Palisades today! https://www.palisadestahoe.com/mountain-information/webcams Check out that drift forming on the 8200' level platform! Looks to be a foot high already! Get ready to have to DIG THAT SNOW again, Tahoe Crew! Its AMAZING how all that fresh snow just piles up and blows all around forming the most exquisite drifts!

Okay folks - Palisades is ALREADY seeing flurries! Snow was supposed to start late Sunday. Palisades always gets it first. https://www.palisadestahoe.com/mountain-information/webcams NO ONE ever cranes their neck tryin' to see snow falling at the Palisades! It just snows and snows and snows. I think they just read the weather models looking for a clear day to try to dig out, the way we search the models to find snow to fall here in the Mid Atlantic.

Tomorrow the snow comes back to South Lake Tahoe again. Palisades will get about 12 inches in the next few days over 7000 feet. They FINALLY managed to get the 8200' level platform cleaned of snow. That was ridiculously embarrassing, Tahoe. It took FIVE men, two of which used a snow blower AND a fracking skid-steer! It also took them TWO DAYS, LMAO!!! I am an old man, I could have done the deed with a Jebman shovel in about eighteen hours, all in one day! C'mon, Palisades crew! It was ONLY four feet of snow! Anyway, the storms will go easy on the Palisades this time around, only a foot of snow. Try not to get overworked, Tahoe crews. Its only twelve inches of snow, it should be light and fluffy this time. I know that heavy wet snow is so hard on your backs, Palisades crew. https://www.palisadestahoe.com/mountain-information/webcams Check out the webcams, by tomorrow afternoon snow should be flying. Ridgetop winds will be gusting to 75 mph. Nice, refreshing cool day for a jebwalk in the Sierran Cordillera!! TERRIFIC Bluebird Day at the Palisades! https://blog.palisadestahoe.com/conditions/march-17-awesome-snow-and-sunny-st-patricks-day-conditions-at-palisades/ That thirteenth pic is absolutely ICONIC!

Magnificent bluebird day on the Palisades slopes today with highs near 40 degrees! Most lifts are running now. They FINALLY managed to dig the 4 feet of wet snow off the 8200' level platform! It took FIVE fricken guys, one with a snow blower and the other wielding a skid steer, to get the snow shoveled! Geeze folks! I coulda done it in 18 hours with a Jebman Shovel, all by my lonesome! Don't you dare let an old man like myself show you how to shovel the snow at Palisades! Get with the Program, Tahoe! You got another storm headin' your way by Sunday! Two more feet of fresh pow! Don't make me come up there and school you about how to dig the snow!

Not sure if it is on Paramount + but ST Enterprise where they show the parallel universe, I loved the way Capt Archer runs his ship! I loved that stand up agonizer, it even had these cute little lights on the top! I should probably go live in Shanghai China for real. What was so fun and totally gratifying, was Doc Phlox all happy and contented as people got agonized, Sure I'm morbid, I love a good kickboxing match with Tong Po. I am likely quite the sick pup. This probably explains why I love avalanches so much, and the Donner Party thing back in the 1800s. Chilling, isnt it? And the Andes adventure in 1974. Don't forget my FAVORITE: The Everest Expedition in May 1996!!!!!!! I lovingly watched that at least 10,000 times! I really enjoyed watching people making poor decisions on the mountain in the blizzard! They stayed past 2pm, they paid the Price! I love Mount Everest, adored the Icefall, and loved that WIND and snow and the ALTITUDE! Man I wub this movie so much!

Palisades is sunny and 30 degrees, bluebird conditions for skiing. They have managed to get many of the lifts back in operation. They have at least four feet of hard packed wet now frozen snow on the platform at the 8200' level, they are using a kind of skid steer to remove, it is taking a LOOOOOOOOOO time! Some guy is jebmanning a shovel, you can see this in the webcam. Someone really needs to school these ski personnel on how to dig the snow! Come on guys, it aint all THAT heavy! They have a couple more good sunny days to dig snow and get all the lifts running and redevelop the terrain parks!

I have a BAD addiction to ST DS9. I binge and I binge. Never purchase a 12.4 inch 5G tablet. You will experience missing time, lol.

FINALLY, A MUCH-NEEDED BREAK in the Palisades, as ski personnel dig out from that latest storm. Very icy on the mountain from rain that fell as far up as 9000 feet. https://www.palisadestahoe.com/mountain-information/webcams The 8200' level platform looks like the high Arctic! Top of Siberian Express has snow up to the chair! Crews are gonna be digging it for quite a while! In one of their blog posts, top of the Emigrant lift has got snow up to the lift building itself and chairs are mired in new snow! Its amazing how much snow these people have been slammed by! They have seen 662 inches on the season!

Vastate you mentioned Paramount Plus earlier. There are a TON of Star Trek franchises shows on it, I get LOST in it! Also, BAR RESCUE! I LOVE that one!

Its high time to get out there and dig snow!

I have lost tons of time getting buried in Paramount Plus movies. Gotta get rid of that new 5G tablet.

REALLY POURING BIG SNOW right now at Palisades! https://www.palisadestahoe.com/mountain-information/webcams Unbelievable HUGE drift, just an IMMENSE pile of windblown snow up on the 8200' level platform! It looks like Antarctica up there! Top of Far East webcam shows how heavy the snow really is, against the trees in the background! Wow Tahoe has been completely destroyed by heavy wet snow, and the next couple of days will see ski personnel extremely hard at work trying to dig out Headwall, KT-22 and all the other lifts from very deep very wet snow that has half buried snowcats and many a chair on the lifts! They got a LOT of work to do in the next couple days after the storm lets up! Don't look now but here comes ANOTHER cold trough laden with moderate storms and more fine pow in the next week or so! They dont call this a SKI RESORT for nothing folks! They have seen 655 inches of snow so far this season, with at least two MORE months left of winter! All time record is about 810 inches in one season.

That is exactly correct. You guys are going to get so much snow, you are gonna be TIRED of snow and tired of winter, tired of fighting kickboxer style for a parking space. In the meantime, you really owe it to yourself to read this blog post on Operations at Palisades. They have ALREADY CLOSED the Resort tomorrow the Fourteenth! https://blog.palisadestahoe.com/operations/operations-update-palisades-tahoe-will-be-closed-tuesday-march-14th/ That photo of the half buried snowcat is definitely iconic! They are heading for a record total season snowfall! About 800 inches in a season is the current record. I think they have 650 inches or something. Its BAD as heck up there! Rime ice on chairs that they have to pound off with hammers, compounded by metric tons of the extremely wet, extremely heavy snow that continues to pile up and pile up, that the lift operators have to dig out manually with a Jebman Shovel! You'd think that heavy WET snow would not drift. Think again! That stuff is getting blown around and piling up and drifting shut many a hard, backbreaking work the Ski Operators have broken out their backs trying to dig out for the skiers. They look pretty punked out, and to tell you the truth, I'd be dragged out of there on a damn gurney! It's beyond bad up there right now, and they got a huge Brobdingnagian BLOB of precip inbound that's likely going to bury them alive with three MORE feet of heavy wet snow, that they will have to dig everything out from yet AGAIN on Wednesday! It's surely a snow lover's very wet dream in the high Sierra, but not if its YOUR job to manually move that heavy wet snow with a shovel. I feel for those guys. Lower down in the lowlands, even more torrential rain will add to already catastrophic flooding.

There is a huge huge GLOB of Pacific moisture on the way to slam HARD right into California and the snow is already picking up BIG-TIME at the Palisades at Tahoe! https://www.palisadestahoe.com/mountain-information/webcams They will likely pick up another TWO TO THREE FEET! That wind is just blasting that snow all over the place at the 8200' level! They are gonna have a LOT of snow to dig, because many of those chairs are gonna be deep under fresh snow! Ha ha they are likely gonna be forced to dig the KT-22 lift out of the deep, drifted snow all over again!

Nice job! Might have to hire you to put in our driveway here in central Texas someday.

They'll get smacked. It's New England. But its ONLY sixteen inches with a 50 mph breeze. You know where I like to be for winter.