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NOAA  - Squaw Valley


This Afternoon: Snow. Chance of precipitation is 100%. Total daytime snow accumulation of 9 to 13 inches possible. 
Tonight: Snow showers Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 5 to 9 inches possible. 
Thursday: Snow showers, mainly before 4pm. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches possible. 




LEAP DAY in Calaveras County!

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A Taste of the Gold Country

Where's Max? Johnny, where's Max? 

-Bubs

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The 2012 The Great Ski Race^® is cancelled due to lack of snow!
For only the second time in 36 years, the Tahoe Nordic Search and Rescue (TNSAR) Team is cancelling the race for 2012. We are an industrious bunch of winter enthusiasts, but even the most optimistic person can't combat a petulant winter. It's not just that there there isn't enough snow...it's that there isn't any snow on long portions of the race course. After considering alternate plans - and when there is this little snow there are very few alternate plans - TNSAR decided to avoid putting on a race this year that would not match the expectations and level of quality that everyone has come to expect.
Suffice to say...we will be back in 2013 and look forward to the largest turnout yet!


Don't feel bad, there is still enough snow for a guy like JOMO. He's been steeped in a tradition that allows him to shred it up on a thimble full of snow and a little Whitegrass.com
-Bubs

BUBBLES BY BUBBLES

                                     (Can anyone guess what this is a photo of?)

Feel The Bubbles

I have hijacked the site until JoMo relocates his computer's power cord and kicks me off.
-Bubbles

enjoy...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFifAP0TeQ4&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PLE87BC25478C0A4C9

Time to Start Training

    I registered for

The Great Ski Race^®

36th Anniversary, Sunday March 4th, 2012, 9:00 AM

  So I guess i will strat running up hills, stretching every day, and not smoking cigarettes...
  I think it will be fun to race with so many other people through beautiful Tahoe trails.  I am very excited. 

 

America!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMQ0CeXYd54    America...

Please watch this video.  It is my song for travelling. 
    I got Bill Callahan from a new friend I met at Oberlin College, Ohio.  I never knew this video existed to Bubbles notified me.  It rocks! 
          I think this song moves me to wanna get out there, because it is so grand and Golden.

Back on top

    I cannot even begin to tell you how thrilled I am to be skiing at the Squaw Valley, California.  After riding lifts like the KT-22, the Emmigrant, Gold Coast, and Granite Chief, I began to grasp just how big this ski area is.  4,000 skiable acres I think, and I still have not gone to Alpine Meadows, the neighboring resort that is supposedley where the good glades and rippers are.  I got to use my brand new season pass yesterday at Swquaw.  It was sunny, warm, and busy.  i rode bymself until someone called me out in the liftline.  "Hey, you were at my house the other night."  I couldn't remember his name, and he mine; he recognized the big black down jacket I was wearing that G let me borrow, and told me that he gave it away because it was too big.  We did a few runs together, then I ate some leftover Mexican Lasagna I had made the night before with Canaan, his roommate and little Kiwi guest.  After that I sat at the sushi, and G handed me over a free fried salmon skin handroll and two pieces of Nigiri salmon.  I sat next to a buddy who grew up at Deep Creek Lake and knows crazy Seanroy from LSD.  (Lake Shore Drive)  Outside I awaited G to finish work, hanging with my hostess Leslie and her Bermese Mountain Dog Luna.  All last night it snowed, we have 4-6 inches, and expect around a foot.  I am working for my first day at the Arc at Gold Coast, a lodge at the top of the Funitel lift.  I am stoked.  Snow, work, and skiing with friends makes life down right enjoyable.  I'll probably just be washing dishes today, but you have to start somewhere.  I think I will like this job; I've already met a few kids I will be working with, and they are young and fun like myself.  I look forward to ripping later this week...

Squaw Squaw!

    Squaw Valley, Olympic Valley

    Alpine Meadows, next ridge over from Squaw Valley.
   I will have the chance to shred both of these awesome resorts as soon as I secure my job in a kitchen at Squaw.  
    I look forward to hitting up the park...
 
    Dropping in on steep lines...

    And riding the funitel...

San Jose, CA

   I have heard from skaters that Lake Cunningham Skate Park, in San Jose, CA is the sweetest park ever.  It is in the bay area near San Francisco.  I would like to check it before I come East, but who knows where a vagrant country boy like me will end up.
Lake Cunningham skate park

The Sierra Viking

    I have not been skateboarding, so you are in for a history lesson.  Snowshoe Thompson helped carry mail over the snowy Sierras from the Sacramento valley to Nevada from 1856 to 1876.  He was the connection for the Atlantic states to California during the cold winter months.

  Sometimes carrying around 100 pounds, his huge homemade skis were 10 feet long, 25 lb. oak "snowshoes", as they were called in the Telemark region of Norway from whence he came.
 "Thompson always wore a Mackinaw jacket, a wide rimmed hat, and covered his face in charcoal to prevent snow blindness. He carried no blankets, but he did carry matches to start fires, and his bible. He snacked on dried sausage, jerked beef, crackers, and biscuits. When a storm kept him from proceeding he would find a flat rock, clear it of snow, and dance old Norwegian folk dances until it passed, then he would continue on his way." http://snowshoethompson.org/the-story/