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Old December 21st 03, 01:30 PM
Iain Miller
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Default Lake Tahoe end Mar..beg Apr


"Terry Morse" wrote in message
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Iain Miller wrote:

I wase there right at the end of March/early April 2002 - it was

revolting.
The weather broke the week we got there & got very hot & the skiing was

no
fun at all - slush, slush & more slush by about 11 am. We were off the
mountain by 1pm every day I think. Temperatures up the mountain were in

the
60s.


You just described the essence of Spring skiing: Start early, end
early, enjoy the rest of the day hiking/lounging/biking/swimming. If
you want only Winter conditions, and you have to plan your trip in
advance, plan to ski in Winter. I have experienced Winter conditions
in late May at Alpine Meadows--for a couple of hours, and I've skied
under blue skies and 60F temperatures in February.


Yep, but there is spring skiing and then there is full on meltdown (!) What
we experienced was the latter unfortunately. As for travel times - it was a
case of that being the only option open at the time. To be honest its one of
those trips that I still consider to have been a waste of time effort &
money.

For the amount of money you have to spend to ski at Tahoe, personally I
wouldn't risk going that late again.


If you watch the weather and time it right, you can ski on great
snow well into April. And you don't have to spend a bundle.


Well we came from the UK so it kinda wasn't an option to be flexible with
the dates. Skiing at Heavenly is now out of reach for us as a family of 4
anyway - $1000 for two kids ski school for 5 days & another $5-600 on 2
adult lift passes. We got the same thing in Europe last year for about 1/3
of the price.

Lift ticket prices this season: Alpine Meadows: $39. Sugar Bowl: $39.


Still expensive by European standards.

I.





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