Thank you for this video! As a former local for many years, I have skied that run and enjoyed the views many times. The camera angle is perfect to show the immediate conditions as well as what lies ahead and simulate the sensations that compel us to ski. I especially appreciate not having a sound track which would block the sound of the wind and different snow textures which are such an integral part of the skiing experience. Bravo.
Heavenly was the first place I skied. It hadn’t snowed for two weeks, but snowed about a foot the night before I went. After bunny slope training, they sent me up to ski greens. I took the chair down that goes over Gun Barrel. OMG the view. I fell in love and was hooked ever since.
@@edwinmalachy this would be round a bout. It's 5.5 miles long and runs from top to bottom on the California side so you can avoid the dbl black diamond face
Ah yes, Ridge Run trail, I think using Canyon Express chair lift high enough for the view or using Sky Express lift at the right hours can be shorter line (maybe because Sky Express has some black run on the left of the trail map discourage beginner skier. In later hours it get crowded, many skier try to go to Nevada side using this Sky Express lift to get to Skyline Trail).
I'm at Kirkwood by default. But from time to time, we need to just cruise low and slow and smell the roses. Many thanks for the ride Irwan and THANK you for not putting some goofy boom boom music under.
I love Lake Tahoe. This run has some nice views of the lake but I still think the main run at the Homewood resort gives the most spectacular view of the lake. It almost makes you dizzy at one point as you get the feeling you are flying over the West Shore part of the lake. I used to live up in Lake Tahoe for many years. I sure do miss the beauty of the lake with its fresh pine air along with the amazing views of the stars in night sky.
I lived there for 3 years and instructed at heavenly. The best view I ever saw was when I took the lift down the face of the Cali side and it was cloudy. Well all the sudden a break in the clouds let one sunbeam go through and made a rainbow that was absolutely stunning. Basically the whole resort stopped to see it
WHAT about Mt. ROSE, Diamond Peak-Incline Village, GUN BARREL run, at Heavenly Valley? Sadly, I retired from skiing when I lived in ALBUQUERQUE but having skied in Durango, Colorado at PURGATORY SKI resort, elevation almost 10k ft elevation ski run 4/1986 was an incredible place to say "Hasta La Vista Baby" ! 🤗
Yup, Rainbow Ridge at Homewood has the best view of the lake hands down. It's an easy blue run, so it's (was) accessible to most everyone. Near the end of the run it seems you might ski right into the lake. Too bad it's closed to all but Tahoe residents. I learned to ski at Homewood in the '70s. A lift ticket cost less than $15. Homewood was a family style resort. One of the most affordable. Now it's the least affordable at $270.
We just came back from skiing Heavenly @ Tahoe. Crazy beautiful place. I only wish we could have stayed longer. Thanks for sharing. Makes me feel like I'm there again.
I thought Gunbarrel was the most scenic run at Heavenly, you're looking at the lake the whole way down. I was a cook at Harvey's in SLT in the mid '70s when I was in my late teens to early 20s. Skied Heavenly all the time. It was a great time to be young. I lived down the street from Heavenly. I'd get off of work early afternoon grab my skis and go. It was cheap then. I could get a couple of hours skiing in mid-week with few people on the mountain and short lift lines. Gunbarrel was super moguly and it was always my last run of the day. When there was fresh powder it was sublime. We didn't wear helmets then and snowboards weren't allowed, they were considered dangerous. Snowboarders were sort of an outlaw cult. Later I moved to Montana and took up xc. My sis was the chief ranger at Old Faithful in Yellowstone and we'd meet at Big Sky and Telemark with leather boots and three-pin or cable bindings. This was late '80s to early '90s. The snow was incredible, compared to Sierra cement. I'm almost 66 now and don't ride chairlifts anymore. I'm exclusive xc, with a bit of snowshoeing now and then.
If you stay left near the bottom it keeps going even further. You end up at the bottom of the Powder Bowl chair. Really long groomed easy intermediate run with fantastic Tahoe views the whole way.
And then if instead of getting on the Powderbowl chair, you stay a little to the right and you are on Roundabout, which takes you all the way down to the California lodge (base of the Gunbarrel Express lift). So you can ski from the top of Sky (about 10,060 feet or so) down to the California Lodge at about 6500 feet with no lifts if you want (there are lifts to make it a little better if you want). I've done that many times, catching the last ride up on Sky at 4:00. Fun way to end the day.
I lived in Tahoe for 3 years in the early 80's, my 2 favorite ski areas were Heavenly for it's Long cruising runs and Homewood for it's short yet challenging runs.
Beautiful views and trail! Was that the Ridge Run Blue Square trail? Never skied out west but it’s on the old bucket list! LOL.. Thanks for sharing and happy trails! 🙏👍❄️🙂☃️
The most scenic run at Heavenly is the one where you MUST head into the trees because the snowfall is so copious , heavy and coming straight down with no wind.... or end ................. .
I would recommend starting with something simpler than this and with a ski instructor. It's not a difficult run, but it wouldn't be a run for someone their first time on skis.
Haha, look at the snowpack now! 400" of snow has fallen already in some places. North Sierra resorts see 300-400" inches of snow on average historically. Just not the last several years. It can dump beyond anyone's belief in the Sierra. Look at 1982 at Alpine Meadows. A dangerous, scary amount of snow. I remember a 900" year at Kirkwood too.
This looks so beautiful and not too hard? I'm planning a trip to Heavenly for the first time and am an intermediate type skiier. Would you recommend this run? What's the name of it?
I planned a trip there for next week and had to cancel my reservation because of the out of state 10 day quarantine bs. Be aware. Super bummed, never been to Heavenly
@@ponolovefarms3926 oh no, you shouldve kept it! :( the quaranatine is "encouraged" but not required (according to the CA Dept of Public Health website.
@@ponolovefarms3926 Bachelor has better snow right. California will do everything in its power to make businesses fail. Like implementing a bullshit quarantine
I have never skied before and I’m planning to go down to Lake Tahoe for winter break would this place be good for beginner skiers ⛷ Thanks and have a good day 😊
Skied here today for the first time. It'll be my last time. Poorly organized trails especially on the Ca side. One of the biggest lifts that connects the two sides of the mountain was not working for no reason. To get down to California side you have to do a black diamond mogul run...wtf! Or you take a FLAT green run. Done with this place!
In the 80s, as mountain manager, I was severely criticized for doubling the width of this run. It turned out to have been a good decision.
Yoooo that's crazy appreciate your work man
For sure. We definitely appreciate you. The view wouldn't be the same if it were surrounded by trees lol
🙌🏻🙌🏻 Malcolm Tibbetts I remember when you ran this mountain sure isn’t the same anymore wish you were still here this place is a shit show
hell yeah brother
Name of run ?
Thank you for this video! As a former local for many years, I have skied that run and enjoyed the views many times. The camera angle is perfect to show the immediate conditions as well as what lies ahead and simulate the sensations that compel us to ski. I especially appreciate not having a sound track which would block the sound of the wind and different snow textures which are such an integral part of the skiing experience. Bravo.
So true.
well said.
for anyone wondering, this is ridge run. you gotta take sky express (the lift) to get there.
Long runs. Fresh snow. Perfect weather. You live for those days. Thanks for the video.
I remember working on the Lift Crew at Heavenly, 1979-1980 winter. Didn't make any money, but skied my ass off. Good times!
Heavenly was the first place I skied. It hadn’t snowed for two weeks, but snowed about a foot the night before I went. After bunny slope training, they sent me up to ski greens. I took the chair down that goes over Gun Barrel. OMG the view.
I fell in love and was hooked ever since.
Same thing happened to me yesterday ❤
Excellent video. I ski-ed here 25 years ago an I was hopeless as it was my first time. The scenery is unreal. Such as beautiful part of the world
Who's watching this at work, daydreaming?
This is where I work it’s such a dream
I work at heavenly so not me
I will do this WHILE you day dream at work.
@@jimmyallen3850 which trail is this.? Looks like beginner/ intermediate level.
@@edwinmalachy this would be round a bout. It's 5.5 miles long and runs from top to bottom on the California side so you can avoid the dbl black diamond face
Ah yes, Ridge Run trail, I think using Canyon Express chair lift high enough for the view or using Sky Express lift at the right hours can be shorter line (maybe because Sky Express has some black run on the left of the trail map discourage beginner skier. In later hours it get crowded, many skier try to go to Nevada side using this Sky Express lift to get to Skyline Trail).
What a great run. Love a cruiser where you just relax and enjoy being there.
Those views of the lake are phenomenal. I'm going on a road trip here in a few months. Can't wait to see it in person.
You won’t be disappointed.
@@53shuzzie Depends what he's used to and what he's expecting doesn't it?
@@53shuzzie it’s already happened lol
Thanks for posting this! I miss Ridge Run. I like Liz and Elle on the CA side too....
I just skiied Heavenly vicariously through Irwan Chang. Thanks for that!
A nice blue cruiser. Beautiful surroundings. Definitely rivals the scenery of my usual ski destinations here in Colorado.
this is my new favorite skiing run video, its so nice and the cameraman skills are on fire fr
I'm at Kirkwood by default. But from time to time, we need to just cruise low and slow and smell the roses. Many thanks for the ride Irwan and THANK you for not putting some goofy boom boom music under.
I love goofy boom boom music
Skiied there 5 years ago Kirkwood, Squaw Valley and Bear Valley all in one week. good times!
Thank you for sharing. Have a blessed and marvellous Sunday. Love the video.May God bless you and family ❤ 🤗🤗💛💙❤❤🖤🤍
I love Lake Tahoe. This run has some nice views of the lake but I still think the main run at the Homewood resort gives the most spectacular view of the lake. It almost makes you dizzy at one point as you get the feeling you are flying over the West Shore part of the lake. I used to live up in Lake Tahoe for many years. I sure do miss the beauty of the lake with its fresh pine air along with the amazing views of the stars in night sky.
You talking about Kirkwood?
I lived there for 3 years and instructed at heavenly. The best view I ever saw was when I took the lift down the face of the Cali side and it was cloudy. Well all the sudden a break in the clouds let one sunbeam go through and made a rainbow that was absolutely stunning. Basically the whole resort stopped to see it
WHAT about Mt. ROSE, Diamond Peak-Incline Village, GUN BARREL run, at Heavenly Valley? Sadly, I retired from skiing when I lived in ALBUQUERQUE but having skied in Durango, Colorado at PURGATORY SKI resort, elevation almost 10k ft elevation ski run 4/1986 was an incredible place to say "Hasta La Vista Baby" ! 🤗
Yup, Rainbow Ridge at Homewood has the best view of the lake hands down. It's an easy blue run, so it's (was) accessible to most everyone.
Near the end of the run it seems you might ski right into the lake. Too bad it's closed to all but Tahoe residents.
I learned to ski at Homewood in the '70s. A lift ticket cost less than $15. Homewood was a family style resort. One of the most affordable. Now it's the least affordable at $270.
Beautiful scenery! Very peaceful 😊
Thanks from the Northeast.
True pleasure to watch.
We just came back from skiing Heavenly @ Tahoe. Crazy beautiful place. I only wish we could have stayed longer. Thanks for sharing. Makes me feel like I'm there again.
Just wow !! I would love to do this one day. But surely would fall so many times. You were awesome there.
Wow, i really miss skiing. this was awesome, I think I need to head back to tahoe.
Thank you. Almost like I was there. Heavenly!
Beautiful easy run, especially with very few people on it!
Fresh snow and perfect weather.
I thought Gunbarrel was the most scenic run at Heavenly, you're looking at the lake the whole way down. I was a cook at Harvey's in SLT in the mid '70s when I was in my late teens to early 20s. Skied Heavenly all the time. It was a great time to be young. I lived down the street from Heavenly. I'd get off of work early afternoon grab my skis and go. It was cheap then. I could get a couple of hours skiing in mid-week with few people on the mountain and short lift lines. Gunbarrel was super moguly and it was always my last run of the day. When there was fresh powder it was sublime. We didn't wear helmets then and snowboards weren't allowed, they were considered dangerous. Snowboarders were sort of an outlaw cult. Later I moved to Montana and took up xc. My sis was the chief ranger at Old Faithful in Yellowstone and we'd meet at Big Sky and Telemark with leather boots and three-pin or cable bindings. This was late '80s to early '90s. The snow was incredible, compared to Sierra cement. I'm almost 66 now and don't ride chairlifts anymore. I'm exclusive xc, with a bit of snowshoeing now and then.
Love the long scenic runs at Heavenly.
I was at Sahara late 70s... best time of my life.
Top of Dipper.
If you stay left near the bottom it keeps going even further. You end up at the bottom of the Powder Bowl chair. Really long groomed easy intermediate run with fantastic Tahoe views the whole way.
And then if instead of getting on the Powderbowl chair, you stay a little to the right and you are on Roundabout, which takes you all the way down to the California lodge (base of the Gunbarrel Express lift). So you can ski from the top of Sky (about 10,060 feet or so) down to the California Lodge at about 6500 feet with no lifts if you want (there are lifts to make it a little better if you want). I've done that many times, catching the last ride up on Sky at 4:00. Fun way to end the day.
It is a heaven indeed. Gorgeous!
That was a beautiful run down the mountain with Tahoe in the background. I wish that nice wide run had been available in the 60's.
I remember this run it has stunning views of the lake.
I so took this for granted skiing there as a kid
Thanks that was great.....I felt myself moving with you. And I didn't have to buy a lift ticket.
Man, Tahoe is nice. Love heavenly
Absolutely freakin' beautiful!
I've hit 73mph down below where it opens up to the left. Amazing, wide, high speed run!
so beautiful, and thanks for the awesome video
I lived in Tahoe for 3 years in the early 80's, my 2 favorite ski areas were Heavenly for it's
Long cruising runs and Homewood for it's short yet challenging runs.
Beautiful Heavenly! Miss California skiing.
Man, I used to fly down this first thing in the morning before it got too busy and was freshly groomed
This is immensely beautiful
Beautiful views and trail! Was that the Ridge Run Blue Square trail? Never skied out west but it’s on the old bucket list! LOL.. Thanks for sharing and happy trails! 🙏👍❄️🙂☃️
Dam. That run looks great!
just skiied heavenly today was excellent
Missing Tahoe. Thanks for taking me on a run.
Just stunningly beautiful
How was your day standing in lines and waiting hours in traffic welcome to Tahoe. It is beautiful when you look past the masses of people in traffic
The most scenic run at Heavenly is the one where you MUST head into the trees because the snowfall is so copious , heavy and coming straight down with no wind.... or end ................. .
Aww, so beautiful, wish I was there right now.
reminiscence... lived in SLT from '84 -'90, first job was working at Heavenly for the '84-'85 season.
I am not a skier but this looks like an awesome beginers route ti learn skiing.
I would recommend starting with something simpler than this and with a ski instructor. It's not a difficult run, but it wouldn't be a run for someone their first time on skis.
@@tshandy1 I'd say this is a like medium beginner route, good place to link turns and gain some speed
Beautiful!!!!!
I just left from there last week, so salty i didn't do this run. so beautiful out there
wow. that is amazing
Very nice video
I used to work at heavenly wonderful job
Awesome run....my kind of terrain 🙂
This is great.
I’ll be there in 2 weeks!!!!
Aloha🤙🏾
that's a boring highway. not a demanding slope for a skier.
greetings from Switzerland
Haven't skied Heavenly a lot but I think that;s the fewest people I've ever seen on that run.
That’s a run I’d like to ski down with the entire family.
Amazing views!! We are planning to go there first week of December. Wondering if we will have enough snow to skii
I would hold off and see how much snow there actually is and how much of the resort is actually opened.
Haha, look at the snowpack now! 400" of snow has fallen already in some places. North Sierra resorts see 300-400" inches of snow on average historically. Just not the last several years. It can dump beyond anyone's belief in the Sierra.
Look at 1982 at Alpine Meadows. A dangerous, scary amount of snow. I remember a 900" year at Kirkwood too.
This looks so beautiful and not too hard? I'm planning a trip to Heavenly for the first time and am an intermediate type skiier. Would you recommend this run? What's the name of it?
i think he's on Ridge Run!
I planned a trip there for next week and had to cancel my reservation because of the out of state 10 day quarantine bs. Be aware. Super bummed, never been to Heavenly
@@ponolovefarms3926 oh no, you shouldve kept it! :( the quaranatine is "encouraged" but not required (according to the CA Dept of Public Health website.
@@michaeldodes8731 I’ll look into it again but they had sent a very discouraging email about it. Probably hit Bachelor instead. Enjoy!
@@ponolovefarms3926 Bachelor has better snow right. California will do everything in its power to make businesses fail. Like implementing a bullshit quarantine
Heaven!
such great memories from when I went.
No music! Hooray! What a beautiful spot!
What color is this run? Green?
I have never skied before and I’m planning to go down to Lake Tahoe for winter break would this place be good for beginner skiers ⛷ Thanks and have a good day 😊
Flat beginner run, beautiful scenery.
Very nice!
Looks amazing…
The nice video looks like a great day my favorite is on the Nevada side stagecoach or Olympic downhill but no views of the lake
Thanks!
I'm going there in one week! Super excited. This run was pretty but looked really slow
Can someone share the name of this trail?
Ridge Run is where it starts. From the top of the Sky Express lift to the bottom of it.
wow
😍
Sure feel like I am 🎿👍💀🕶️
I'd be there all day long!
I so wish I could do this 1 move time in my life
Wow how many miles was that
This is a green or blue?
what is the name of this trail?
What is the name of this run? Length?
What’s the name of this run?
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name of the run please/thank you.
Oh i know this trail its called ridge run it has beautiful views
I love Heavenly wish i didnt live on the East Coast
Skied here today for the first time. It'll be my last time. Poorly organized trails especially on the Ca side. One of the biggest lifts that connects the two sides of the mountain was not working for no reason. To get down to California side you have to do a black diamond mogul run...wtf! Or you take a FLAT green run. Done with this place!
This looks great! I'm surprised it's marked blue, seems pretty easy, no?
very easy--i fell asleep watching this...
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What’s the name of that run?
Is that the "Roundabout" run?
what is this trail/run called?
Whats the name of this run?
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What's the name of this route?
Which run is this?
Thanks....I think i could do this....even at 53