Ski Lake Tahoe

[skier666]

不好意思，什麼是年票？我真的不懂...

因該是滑雪季票。每天去不用錢

[taichiskiing]

Want to plan the budget to go skiing on Lake Tahoe and stay in Reno.

Anybody can help?

Well, snowrider and skier666 have already provided some good info, here's only my 2 cents. It really depends on how long, how many places, how many people come skiing, and when. Reno has a lot of cheap motels, but farther away (an hour drive to north shore and an hour and a half to South Lake Tahoe); if you don't have a car, it is more convenient to stay in South Lake Tahoe or Stateline, Nevada side casinos. They are shuttle buses that running all day to and from Heavenly, hourly to Sierra-at-Tahoe (25 miles from town), and once or twice daily to Kirkwood (55 miles from town), and I think there maybe a five dollars fee). If you stay close to the Stateline (where we locals call "downtown") you can walk to all your après-skiing activities.

Or if you have cars and more people, you can rent a vacational home, do your own cooking, having a party, more freedom and comfortable, and shared expenses maybe cheaper, but you do need to book this early, especially for X'mas-new year holidays and Presents' week holidays. January is usually cold, the snow is almost guarantied in February and March, and good spring skiing in April.

The daily lift tickets are expensive, average close to $70 weekdays, and $80+ weekends, multi-days tickets usually cheaper, and you can get discount tickets in some supper markets/Albertsons, as well as buy them online. And if you ski more than five days in one resort, a season pass maybe cheaper.

These are only general ideas; if you have a specific question or concern, just ask, I may be able to find an answer for you.

Have fun, :)
IS

[skier666]

Thanks for your reply.

Usually where do you stay when you go there?

It depends but I do stay at Reno several times a year. Some friends like to stay there.

[snowrider]

Norman's "Ski Lake Tahoe" map is an upside down one.

I've only visited Squaw, Heavenly, and Kirkwood. I love them all, especially Squaw.

Squaw has an European style cable cart and a lot of beautiful rocks/cliffs. One of the most enjoyable things there is watching people jump off cliff. I never tried jumping cliff, and I don't have the guts to do that. But it's a special experience watching cliff jumping while you are having lunch.

Heavenly, of course, has stunning lake view, long runs, almost all high speed lifts. And you ski from state to state (i.e., CA - NV). I enjoy their Olympic run.

Kirkwood in the beginning was not in our plan. We were told by ski shop that Kirkwood has been locals' favorite, so we went there. I still remember the Sunrise chair. I did not try those famous but tough trails, but I did enjoy skiing those trails under Sunrise. One thing that I don't like about Kirk is its slow chairs - it does not have many high speed there.

[norman]

要在 lake tahoe 搭公車很累的。你可以到 Heavenly, Squaw 或是 Northstar ski-in/out. 我估計 Heavenly 比較方便些，大部分遊客到Heavenly 就是這原因。你還可以拜訪太極大師

你一個人，住 Kirkwood 很不方便，所以不要住Kirkwood。 要在Kirkwood玩7天，技術上要稍有些深度，不然有點危險，或會太無聊。你可以到 Heavenly, 很適合你，壓雪道比Kirkwood 好。然後說不定太極大師可以帶你到Kirkwood滑個1天

謝謝您的建議，那個雪場比較大？滑道最長是多少(英文不好，找很久沒看到。)？

先問起來，如果要是能出門九天，就可以美加二選一了，雖然目前看起來還是不可能的。

美國的一顆黑鑽，我是肯定沒問題的，只是兩顆黑鑽被您們講得那麼難，我還真的很好奇有多難，我現在只能比較歐、加、日、紐、澳，只是目前還沒看到難度超過歐的。至少日本的兩顆黑鑽，在歐洲的雪場就滿山滿谷的，所以在難度上還真的沒超過歐洲的雪場。當然，跳崖未標區的不算。

[norman]

因該是滑雪季票。每天去不用錢

那年票好便宜喔，那如果去連續滑兩周以上，買年票會比較便宜嗎？

[norman]

Norman's "Ski Lake Tahoe" map is an upside down one.

I've only visited Squaw, Heavenly, and Kirkwood. I love them all, especially Squaw.

Squaw has an European style cable cart and a lot of beautiful rocks/cliffs. One of the most enjoyable things there is watching people jump off cliff. I never tried jumping cliff, and I don't have the guts to do that. But it's a special experience watching cliff jumping while you are having lunch.

Heavenly, of course, has stunning lake view, long runs, almost all high speed lifts. And you ski from state to state (i.e., CA - NV). I enjoy their Olympic run.

Kirkwood in the beginning was not in our plan. We were told by ski shop that Kirkwood has been locals' favorite, so we went there. I still remember the Sunrise chair. I did not try those famous but tough trails, but I did enjoy skiing those trails under Sunrise. One thing that I don't like about Kirk is its slow chairs - it does not have many high speed there.

我再追加這張地圖，纜車的快慢很重要，這點沒去過的人就無法判斷了。

[skier666]

那年票好便宜喔，那如果去連續滑兩周以上，買年票會比較便宜嗎？

看那個雪場. 因爲有些雪場雪季開始後，季票就漲了

[skier666]

我再追加這張地圖，纜車的快慢很重要，這點沒去過的人就無法判斷了。

這裡的纜車很快

[skier666]

Norman's "Ski Lake Tahoe" map is an upside down one.

I've only visited Squaw, Heavenly, and Kirkwood. I love them all, especially Squaw.

Squaw has an European style cable cart and a lot of beautiful rocks/cliffs. One of the most enjoyable things there is watching people jump off cliff. I never tried jumping cliff, and I don't have the guts to do that. But it's a special experience watching cliff jumping while you are having lunch.

Heavenly, of course, has stunning lake view, long runs, almost all high speed lifts. And you ski from state to state (i.e., CA - NV). I enjoy their Olympic run.

Kirkwood in the beginning was not in our plan. We were told by ski shop that Kirkwood has been locals' favorite, so we went there. I still remember the Sunrise chair. I did not try those famous but tough trails, but I did enjoy skiing those trails under Sunrise. One thing that I don't like about Kirk is its slow chairs - it does not have many high speed there.

The chairs are very slow. The Cornice chair is the only high speed chair for non-beginner

[skier666]

謝謝您的建議，那個雪場比較大？滑道最長是多少(英文不好，找很久沒看到。)？

先問起來，如果要是能出門九天，就可以美加二選一了，雖然目前看起來還是不可能的。

美國的一顆黑鑽，我是肯定沒問題的，只是兩顆黑鑽被您們講得那麼難，我還真的很好奇有多難，我現在只能比較歐、加、日、紐、澳，只是目前還沒看到難度超過歐的。至少日本的兩顆黑鑽，在歐洲的雪場就滿山滿谷的，所以在難度上還真的沒超過歐洲的雪場。當然，跳崖未標區的不算。

其實不是我們說得難，是你說的太簡單。這裡不會比歐洲難。壓雪道不會難到那