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It's peanut butter jelly time, peanut butter jelly time, peanut butter jelly time.....

........Now break it down and freeze! What up powder lovers and Sierra loyalists, we know how to ring in the New Year right! Kicking off 2010 with the ANNUAL VOLCOM PEANUT BUTTER & RAIL JAM, who is bringing its 09/10 American tour to SIERRAA! Drawing one of the biggest competitive turnouts of the season. Sorry skiers ( we love you too), but this event is calling all boarders to come out and bust a move, free of charge.  

This is one of the only true jam format contests around. Divisions include 15 & Under, 16 & over, Women, and Open. If you think you got something to prove, head into the Aspen Cafe at 8am to register or check out volcom.com for more details on registration. CASH prizes for open class...yoowwwzzaa! Oh and one last amazing thing to keep in mind....FREE PB& J sandos!!

Hope to see you out there, it's going to be a great kick start to 2010!

-DaNae'

Sierra's the place to be, come on out & bring a friend or three!?

Hello powder lovers and Sierra loyalists! I hope you had a wonderful week of holiday cheer! Conditions are staying consistently grand with ideal snow to carve! What a splendid Saturday is it, not only did Santa give us a beautiful weekend to ski and ride but also one last present: the OPENING of Gate 1 on Huckleberry Canyon! That means fresh tracks and powder face shots (Remember though, always bring a buddy, bud, partner in crime, significant other, pal, homie...you know what i mean). We have ALL 12 of our lifts open today allowing you to experience the full mountain!

Need to dance off those Christmas cookies?! Holiday Festivities are raging in The Pub today and tomorrow! Check out Tritones - Funky live band starting at 3PM today and Bear Bones - Horn Quintet tomorrow at 12PM & 2PM in The Base Area!

A BIG congrats to Sierra's girl Jamie Anderson! She won Dew Tour Slopestyle this past week with a record score on her first run!! Check out the coverage on Jamie's big day at the first stop of the Dew Tour at www.allisports.com!

See you on the slopes and/or the dance floor in The Pub today, Keep it real!

-DaNae'

 

 

Sharing is caring - essential iPhone apps for Traveling to Tahoe

Hello Powder lovers! The season has started and the holidays are almost here, which means traveling to Tahoe is a guarantee for most family's and friend's. With this in mind, I have provided iPhone users with some Helpful Hints to make traveling to Tahoe a little easier and more enjoyable.

Whether you’re driving 20 miles or 2000, being able to find gas, grab a bite to eat, keep up with the news, check the map for your location and most importantly, weather and resort conditions are all essential to a good journey on the road. With the right iPhone apps, you can avoid sticky situations in the snow like running out of gas or getting lost miles from home.

 

For finding things:

1. MapsBuddy:MapsBuddy is a popular application that makes searching on Google Mapseasy. MapsBuddy provides quick shortcuts for finding gas stations, restaurants, post offices, and everything you’ll need for the road.

2.SimulTravel GPS: If you’re looking for a hotel for the night, a great app is SimulTravel GPS – it locates hotels near your location in a snap and provides prices and detailed information on each hotel.

3. Yelp: Yelp, the popular reviews-based social network, is also an iPhone app. It will detect your current location and give you reviews of hotels, restaurants, and even gas stations nearby.

4. Where To?: Another great app for finding things, Where To helps you find places of interest (ski resorts). The “Surprise Me!” feature will help you pick where you want to stop if the group or family can’t decide.

For information on the road:

5 .RoadTrip: This app is known to be one of the most comprehensive for road travel. Road Trip allows you to track mileage, fuel prices, and graph out trip expenses.

6. WifiTrack: If you’re on the road, there are things that you’ll need to do that require Internet on your computer. But why pay for Wi-Fi when it can be found for free? WifiTrack helps determine the strength of WiFi hot spots and helps you find the ones that don’t require you to pay. 

Weather and snow reports:

7. WorldView Live: You can view images from 10,000 webcams around the world on your phone, including what your favorite resort (cough, cough, Sierra) looks like?

8. The Weather Channel: Although the iPhone has a standard weather app, The Weather Channel provides you with weather conditions for your exact location, as well as radar maps and long-term forecasts.

9. Ski Report: This is a killer app that organizes resorts by those closest to you and shows at a glance base depths and recent snowfalls. Also displays on-site ski reports!

10. The Snow Report from the North Face: This app is one of my favorite because of it's detailed maps, and is said to be the best designed, most modern-looking of all the snow applications.

Games & Misc:

11. Road Trip Fun:  Dozens of classic road games in one = endless entertainment in your palm.

12. Ski Jump Light: A hoot of a game that allows you to bust tricks without the chance of injury.

13. Flashlight: Lost items in the car, suitcase or purse? The flashlight has multiple colors to choose from that light up your entire screen to help you find any belonging lost in the dark.

I hope this list finds use for you and your traveling companions. You can find and purchase any of these apps at http://www.apple.com/iphone/apps-for-iphone/.

Happy Holidays and safe travels!

-DaNae'

If you know you got somethin' to prove, parks are open for you to bust a move!

Here's a tale for all you ladies & fellas, other resorts are starting to get jealous

you're on a mission and you're wishin' to get in some mashin' and jibbin'

Well we have three parks open that are all award-winnin'

So grab your goods, head into the woods

Get into the groove and bust a move!

 See for yourself why TW readers voted Sierra a top 10 resort in the country!

 

The Broadway Park:

Broadway park is rockin a sweet layout with everything your ability craves. For big dawgs there's the brand new 30' down rail with a donkey kink, a pole jam, and other street-influenced features. For those of you still learning or lookin for early season warm up laps, there's a small kicker, flat box, flat rail, and other trannies to jib on.

The Burton Progression Park:

Check out the 7 new features on Upper Snowshoe: 3 small jumps, rollers and 2 low-to-the-ground boxes and rails to build your freestyle confidence.

Bashful:

Bashful is our signature park with medium jump lines and features. With one of the lake's longest park laps, Bashful is a big kids playground. With a new take on super park, this ride is long so hold on because round the corner at the bottom is a bonus jib section ready for mashin'!

Hope to see you on the slopes!

-DaNae'

It's beginning to look a lot like.....an AMAZING season!

Happy Friday powder lovers, Sierra loyalists! Make sure to bust out that SPF and dark lenses this weekend, because the weather's going to be gorgeous with blue skies, mild temps in the mid 40s and light winds. Forecasts call for a chance of snow on Monday and Tuesday so do a little snow dance/prayer session over the weekend and with a bit of luck we'll have another powder day before the middle of next week! We've experienced some flurries over the past few days, with an inch here and there, but we are still skiing and riding on the storms from last week.

With the splendid season start we have more early Christmas presents to please any age! Here's the season scoop....For all you Jibbers, shredders, and go getter's who charge, the Park Crew is keeping the Broadway park and the Burton Progression Park up and running. Hard work has also been had to build the first Sierra signature park of the season on bashful, which is set to OPEN tomorrow! Activities for the kiddies and quality fam time can be found at Tubing Tow, which is open from 10am-4pm. In addition to tubing, we have opened our snowshoe trails for the season as well as snow play and sledding open this weekend through the Holidays! After a fun filled day of soaking in Sierra you can rest your toesies, kick back and mac on some fish tacos! Today is the opening day of the outdoor grill in West Bowl and this weekend will be the perfect time to scope out the new deck and sit back in the sun!

See you on the slopes, 

-DaNae' 

So far, so GREAT!

Happy Monday powder lovers, Sierra loyalists! We are going into the second week of the season and conditions are looking fantastic! The series of storms (or should we say santa?) to hit the Tahoe region in the past week have generously given our mountain a total of 78 inches! Let's just say.....when it snows, it dumps and my have we been able to give you some early Christmas presents of our own. Pulling it out of a red velvet bag just for you is:

-33 trails with more opening every day.

-Westbowl Express and Grandview Express open for top to bottom skiing and riding.

-7 revamped features including a new jump to launch off on Broadway.

-Burton Progression Park open and ready for you to bust a move.

-360º Smokehouse BBQ inside the Grandview Lodge cookin' up a southern storm.

Will these early presents, no need to have fresh pow pow and open terrain dancing in your head any longer....be jolly, very jolly!

Keep it real Sierra and get out and get some already!

-DaNae'

 

T'is the season, for SNOW....

We are expecting a major storm to come through the area tonight with lows in the teens. You can anticipate 2 to 3 feet by Monday night along with another system moving in toward the middle of the week. By next Friday we are expected to experience multiple feet of POWDERRR, be jolly, very jolly! I guess now is the time to say THANKS for all of your snow prayers! Good work, aaand keep it up!

Opening Day announced! Saturday December 5!

Sierra is OPENING, Saturday, December 5! We’ve got very early season conditions and limited operations available, but that’s not stopping us!  Next week’s forecast looks promising.  And the Park on Broadway is only a teaser of things to come this season…

• Easy Rider Express and Rock Garden Chairs
• Broadway, Lower Sleighride and Echo runs
• SMALL Park on Broadway with 5 features including new and improved boxes and a corrugated pipe
• $35 Lift Tickets!
• Beginner Group and Private Lessons

 

Stay Tuned For Opening Day News!

Early season storms have primed the resort for THE BIG ONE! We're just waiting for Mother Nature and El Nino to deliver the goods. We're ready to open and will start turning lifts just as soon as conditions allow. Stay tuned for details on Opening Day.

bdi . . bdi . . bdi . . That's All Folks!

Well guys, it's all over. The lifts have stopped turning, the grooming cats are snugly parked in their garages for the summer, the terrain park boxes are lined up in the parking lot for summer maintenance and the friendly employees are scattering to the summer winds . . . here's a little breakdown of the highlights from this year . . .

December - little bit of a later start than we like, but pretty normal for the High Sierra weather pattern. We saw close to 140 inches of snow in November and December and Christmas Day was one of the best powder days of the season! And no wind-holds!

January - beautiful blue skies for the first part of the month, then another 46 inches of snow toward the end of the month. And no wind-holds!

February - one of the best President's Day Weekends in history! Sierra Resort got close to another 140 inches during the month. There was powder for days in the trees and the Huckleberry Canyon gates opened for adventurous expert skiers and riders. Oh yeah - and no wind-holds!

March - the first weekend in March was probably the best conditions of the season with over 7 feet of snow falling in the first week. In all, we got 122 inches throughout the month but nothing will live on in my memory like that first bluebird powder weekend with snow so deep you were just praying not to fall . . still no wind-holds!

April - another 20 inches in April but the real treat was the warm temperatures, the spring conditions, the sun on your face and the beer in your hand (over 21 of course!). Telegrass, the Salsa Showdown - it was quintessential Sierra love all over the mountain . . . . and, you guessed it, no wind-holds!

So all in all, Sierra got 470 inches of snow during the 08-09 season! Saaahhhhhweeeeet!

Wondering how to get your Sierra fix during the summer? Check in with us right here and we'll make sure you don't miss a beat!

Check out photos from the season or upload your own to our trail map - right here.

Keep It Real guys! We'll talk soon!