Heavenly - March 2008
Some piccies & a movie from Heavenly, Lake Tahoe (USA)
Me & Stew went on a 12 night twin centre fly-drive holiday, stopping at Heavenly & Las Vegas. The first 8 nights were at the Forest Suites Inn at Heavenly, the remaining 4 nights were at Circus Circus in Las Vegas (see seperate page). We flew into San Francisco & flew home from Las Vegas.
Heavenly is at the south end of Lake Tahoe right on the border of California & Nevada. The town is split by the state line & there are huge casino-hotels within a few yards of crossing into Nevada. There are various access points to the slopes spread around the base of the mountain, we were a couple of minutes walk away from the Heavenly gondola. The mountain has loads of wide well groomed blues to cruise on, needless to say, Stew soon sniffed out all the harder/tree runs! The resort is at 1,900m & has a vertical of 1,075m.
The majority of the days were sunny with a few overcast periods thrown in. On the penultimate day we went to Squaw valley & had to endure a white-out for most of the day. On our last day we woke up to 8-10 inches of powder, when the sun wasn't shining it snowed a bit more :-)
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Crossing the Golden Gate bridge coming out of San Francisco Mel, with the Golden Gate bridge in the background Mel taking in the glorious view of Lake Tahoe Panoramic view of Lake Tahoe from California Trail Looking back up one of the runs in the double black diamond Mott Canyon We drove over to Kirkwood one day. Stew found some steep stuff!!! Kirkwood: Mel prepares to drop off down The Wall (top left on the next piccy) Kirkwood: View across Wagon Wheel Bowl to The Wall The Heavenly gondola with Lake Tahoe behind Panoramic view of Lake Tahoe (size: 22 x 12 miles, max depth: 500m ) Mel quaffing a few ales in Mc. P's Heavenly's infamous Gunbarrel (double black diamond) was hard work, but a lot of fun We did a days skiing in Squaw Valley & came back down the lake on the Tahoe Queen paddle steamer Our last day was a powder day :-) Looking across to the fresh tracks in Milky Way Bowl Stew making the most of the powder Awesome! Just taken the skis/board off for the last time :-( Skiing Ski Snowboarding Boarding Board. Bullough54321 ZZ014
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