@SF_Windy Well, it is the end of winter. Check back in August when we've had time to work on our surfer's tans.

There's not much snow in Tahoe, so my 'Fair-' is relative to overall conditions. Not worth $101 unless you're rich or desperate. But if you have a Northstar pass, it's still kind of fun right now.

There were very nice man made snow conditions over the weekend with a few hard bits and bare spots but nothing too bad. I had a fun time screwing around on skis one day and a snowboard the next, as did my wife & kids. The place was empty and the sun was shining.

"N* got schralped by the crowds and warm up last week during the holidays. But we just had ..."

"waaaaaaait... @platypus - did you just deliver a report on ob AND tahoe this morning? Not ..."

"Tahoe was the weekend, OB was this morning. Yeah, order was funny, but I didn't feel like ..."

$101 tickets, literally zero coverage where they aren't making snow, and icy conditions where they are. Pretty terrible conditions, but at least the runs were uncrowded. The Village was another matter. Jammed with people not skiing.

On a side note, not sure what they've spent $30M on at Northstar... Same crappy beads & candle stores in the Village. They dropped another lift on the Backside, but that just means they tore out some great tree skiing. Oh, and they added another bar/restaurant mid-mountain. Generic Asian/Mexican/American fare.

"Sorry to hear the report @sticker. I'll surf some pretty junky conditions, but not gonna ..."

"Yes. Poor- decision on my part. My only consolation is I hear it was still better than Squ ..."

"When I'm trying to describe how cool it is being able to get really good surf walking dist ..."

I just spent way too much time in the shower coming up with a hierarchy for different types of tans, then questioning whether to share it.

"I'm not sure how the hell this ended up on stokereport, and as posted from the location of ..."

"Heh, just figured it out. The 4 letter posting code for north star is ... "TAhoe North Sta ..."

Blizzard like. 60+ mph S/SW gusts.
dumping. free refills every run.

Good+ day at northstar. They got a foot of fresh at the top and today was bluebird with some scattered showers. Temperatures were barely freezing. Linda maV's is probably colder.

Mid mountain was shin - knee deep with a solid layer below it that I would hit on most turns.

Company ski trip adventures continue yonder Northstar way. I can see why you guys call it Lindy-at-Tahoe.

We encountered hard-packed but well-groomed runs under a sunny sky. Massive crowds but they have so much mountain that there was never really a problem. Best stuff I found was over at Lookout Mountain and on the backside. The experience of taking the final, shallow run down to the parking lots felt like being in the middle of a freeway of snowboarders. I'd love to see what this place is like on a weekday. Stoked!

"My favorite nickname for Northstar is "Flatstar". Nothing steep and deep there but the bac ..."

"o how i miss the palisades and sentinal bowl kirkwood its been too long"

sunny/partly cloudy. I read the thermostat outside the grill to be 80F. that sounded a bit extreme and hopefully not calibrated.

10 am snow - icey

"Missed you, @deetr0n. Was there around 11am but only stayed for like 2 hours b/c got annoy ..."

"OOOh you got a fastpass. jealous. I was hustling the singles line. even lookout/martis cre ..."

"Wife's family buys it for me for Christmas. They insist I have it so they don't have to wa ..."

"Crouching Plover Hidden Otter?"

Best snow I've ridden in years. Granted, I've missed every single frickin' powder day the last couple of years, but still, today was frickin' awesome. Imagine 6'-8' OB just glassy & barrelling & firing & offshore in October. Then transport that image to Tahoe, and you've got my day today. About 6 inches of fresh powder on top of a couple of feet of soft snow. I made fresh tracks all day today. Literally, my last run of the day, I was still finding huge expanses of untread powder. Unreal tree skiing. So soft, so fluffy, so happy.

As much as N*Star is the Lindy of Tahoe, the biggest difference is the crowds on the "tougher" parts of the mountain. Today, Lookout Mountain, the steepest part, was absolutely empty. I was going down runs & barely even seeing anyone.

A ton of powder hidden away in all the trees and nice soft groomed runs. Check out the trees off zephyr, lookout, and the backside. Snowing lightly and around 28-30 degrees.

Nice mellow day after the past two days' epic conditions.