Best Tahoe Backcountry Touring: Ya Heard?
Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 5:35 am
No major criteria, 'cept that the approach must be more than 2 hours. (yet close enough that I'd want to bring 6 Bigfoots or something with me).
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1000Pks wrote:Best Tahoe Backcountry Touring: Ya Heard?
but the snow--hmmm. Compared to Utah
96avs01 wrote:
A good start is the Guidebook from The BackCountry in Truckee.
U planning to be in the area this season?
DMT wrote: Good stuff on Mt Rose. Also good up some canyons on the road between Truckee and Tahoo City (forget the name of the one I went up a bunch with Burl)
The tour from Sugarbowl to Squaw is cool, haven't done that one in many many years now.
Dingus Milktoast wrote:Oh, Homewood is a low key 'non-big-mountain' resort starting at near lake level, sandwiched between Squaw and Alpine Meadows. Its an old school family oriented resport with no x2 black of which I am aware.
Michael Graupe wrote:Check out tahoebackcounty.net. Lots of good info.
I did a Castle-Basin-Andesite loop last winter and it was awesome. Photos
DMT wrote: None of the tours Burl showed me that I mentioned above are secrets per se and are perhaps referenced on that site.
96avs01 wrote:Dingus Milktoast wrote:Oh, Homewood is a low key 'non-big-mountain' resort starting at near lake level, sandwiched between Squaw and Alpine Meadows. Its an old school family oriented resport with no x2 black of which I am aware.
The Quail Face area is double diamond.
MarthaP wrote: I haven't done it but skiing the ridge all the way from Scott Peak to Squaw looks like it could be a lot of fun. Anyone taken that "haute" route?
Palisade wrote:...go to high to Mt. Rose Highway or Carson Pass because of their altitude
MarthaP wrote: And just imagine - you, too, can ski KT-22 without paying a dime to the Squaw mega-corp!
[the ridge] SW and N toward KT-22.