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They Call Me ‘The Sneaker’…

The last week has been an awesome one of riding on an always-fluffed Squaw Valley. It hasn’t been the big, nightly numbers that we got used to in January. Rather it’s been Sneaky Little Storms creating a wind-buffed paradise – plus one good mini-dump that jived with what felt like a second opening-day in Silverado. And in this mutant-athlete paradise, there were people chucking themselves from 50-footers in Silvy with only 8-10 new inches on Friday morning.

Preparing to huck from Kima’s Paw in Silverado

While the North Shore of Tahoe and also Truckee have gotten missed by most of the action the Pacific Crest has been shrouded for over a week. The result has been moderate accumulations just about every night and there’s been enough wind to move it all around into those sweet nooks that we love to stumble upon. Did you know that wind can move snow at a factor of 10:1? If you’re a better skier than mathematician this means that just a couple inches of snow over here can blow into drifts over there as deep as two feet.

The Palisades…fluffed

It’s been an awesome week of riding thanks to getting just enough snow and wind plus just enough cloud cover to keep the white in its best state: nice and chilly. On Friday, Silvy opened at 1:30 and the Palisades’ rope dropped at 2:30 – seems like everything this week has been a bit of a surprise! Highlights have been all routes under Cornice II, the windbuff on Headwall Face, Silverado (again), and on Saturday the ‘misty’ call was Olympic Lady pow laps.…

Oh, and for the title of this post why not have a reference to The Who on the day they play the biggest halftime show in all of sports? One of their best songs is The Seeker…

Another happy customer, local angel Dana Mackie