A Hazy Shade of Winter
Holy clouds batman! That is essentially what we had to deal with for the better part of the day!
We started on the California side where there was sun and beautiful views. The vistas of Lake Tahoe were absolutely breath-taking! And then the clouds started rolling in so we decided to head back over to other side of the mountain – which was Nevada. So we soon found out why Nevada is notorious for foggy days. The top of the mountain was completely entrenched in a giant cloud! We stuck to the “easier” trails but it was still had an interesting time navigating.
I have never experienced zero visibility, until now….wow! Coming down the mountain I would say we could see about 50 feet ahead of us and then it was a guessing game!
We finally decided to take a break at lunch and download to the Condo (downloading is taking the Gondola down to the village.) We checked the skis and hit up Wolfgang Puck’s for lunch– yummy!
After lunch we headed backup to meet up with Ryan and his class! As we headed up the mountain, the top was still hidden from us but we were optimistic that things were going to burn off by the time we got up there….not so much.
We took a couple more runs and headed to the umbrella bar – which is essentially a Yurt on the mountain side stocked with alcohol. Very entertaining crew in there. Our favorite was the trophy wife hanging out drinking Frangelica and making lots of friends. Her other half soon joined her and they were something out of Nip and Tuck.
Once back down the mountain we hit the hot tub where who other than Nip and Tuck were hanging out. They ended up being very nice but very Barbi-like and drunk – Highly comical. Graham attempted a snow angle however quickly found out the snow was packed down and unwilling to yield. Instead of a snow angle we ended up with snow pillows for the hot tub. Whatever works;) Tomorrow we rest and shop!
Nice neckbeard Graham.