Last winter, most ski resorts at Lake Tahoe had to postpone their usual November openings because there wasn’t enough snow.
The latest Sierra storm, packing more heavy snow, winds gusting in excess of 100 mph and even some flooding, forced about a half-dozen to shut down on Friday. At least three remained closed Saturday.
“It’s heaven sent for a skier because I can ski until Memorial Day,” said Dan Lavely, 66, a Reno resident who’s been skiing for about 40 years.The resorts who cater to folks like him agree. “If anything, here in Tahoe, we expect the unexpected,” Vail Resorts spokesperson Sara Roston said in an email to The Associated Press on Friday."Then in early December, we were hit with a ton of snow and saw some closures as a result," she said. “It has been one wild winter this year; that is for sure."
“Yeah, you can’t get there when it’s nasty, but that just means it’s going to be even better when you can get there,” said Bunker, 56, who's been skiing since he was 5 years old. Lavely has a season pass at Palisades, the site of the 1960 Winter Olympics, so he's able to work around the storms to still get his runs in.
“I-80 was closed three times last week. Another day, the traffic was so bad you couldn’t get there," Lavely said, reflecting on the day it took him two hours to travel just 15 miles on the way out of Reno before he “finally gave up.”
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