A Hater's Guide to Skiing Tahoe
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
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So many options that one must ask: how shall I torture myself today in the pit of this frozen hell we call the Lake Tahoe region?
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Disclaimer: Yes, I am aware that a lot of this video is inaccurate. This is because many statements in this video are made up or exaggerated for effect. None of this video is based in fact, and it is not intended to be interpreted as such. This is not an overarching review of the Lake Tahoe Region, but rather an embellished satire intended to amuse and entertain. No hate is intended, and this video should not be used to promote any sort of hate against any aspect of the ski industry. Don’t take life too seriously.
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Love love love this video ❤
With how hilarious these are, I’d love to see what a Hater’s Guide to Australian skiing would be like
Australian skiing makes anything at Tahoe look like Heaven lol
They could just show the worst season at the worst resort in Tahoe and it would be like the best of Australia.
I’ve got some resort specific starters
Thredbo: Lifts (Old, Incidents, Alpine Coaster?), Golf Course Rarely open, Schuss and Lower Funnel Web Never open, resort acquisition of every restaurant, Vertical = Even worse snow at the bottom, Costing a bomb (yet the one I ski the most), just use Another One Bites The Dust for Friday Flat
Perisher: Even older lifts, T-bars EVERYWHERE, Traverses, Olympic and North Perisher, pathetic Double Blacks, crowds (I hiked front valley one windhold day and waited 40 minutes for those in the lift line to come up).
Hotham (not as familiar with VIC): Blue Ribbon rarely open, “Extreme Zone”, Drift lift? Slalom Gully
Buller: Bourke St where every Jerry in Melbourne goes, Horrible snow retention (line), road up
Falls: (idk, maybe something on International)
Charlotte Pass: Oversnow, ⬛️, The old chair to Thredbo, More crowds on the road in Summer
Selwyn: No snow, terrible luck, ⚫️, Racecourse Tbar open once every 5 years
Rest (Baw Baw, Ben Lemond, Buffalo, Mawson): Do you even know they exist?
@@SnowghostFilms Sounds like you should do a video on it
Good video. I've skied the most challenging mountains, Kirwood, Palisades Tahoe and best pow day, Sugar Bowl. Love the Tahoe Region.
The area does provide a lot to choose from. But the cost makes it wildly overrated. I’d rather ski New England.
Very good, this was the best Hater's Guide yet! That was totally me that ruined your Heavenly gondola ride after the all you drink special, so sorry about that. Good times though!
Ha! This is savage and I love it. Also love to see a lot of my footage being used 😊
Best Tahoe ski video yet. I will be skiing Sierra at Tahoe this year. Looking forward to a better experience than my last time, before the fire lol.
I love how on point this is. You really have to ski at all these locations to truly understand how real this is😂
I’m so stoked!!! Learned how to bomb on the Ice Coast of NC baby!! These are dream runs. Still. I went to Austria, and going to Alaska next year. I will make to your ice coast too😂
Kinda disappointed that there was no mention of the overnight gondola stay
Missed opportunity 😭
there is also a run called palisades at donner ski ranch. It's the big cliff under the main chair
Donner is always my vote for most underrated ski hill in the region, it has a lot to offer for what it is
Yeah. The naming conventions in Tahoe are whack.
“Go anywhere else” for northstar when I just booked a trip for the first week in march 😂
Weekday? It'll be fine. Weekend? RUN.
@@SRGSkiing oh ya deff a weekday, if it’s up to me I will never go snowboarding on a weekend again anywhere
Check the park out. These videos never mention it but Northstar has one of the best progression parks in Tahoe. I could spend an entire day lapping it
If its snowing, Northstar is actually one of the best around tahoe because theyre relatively protected from the wind, and they have excellent trees. Steep enough to be fun. It might not have kt-22, the mt rose chutes, or the steeps of Kirkwood... But non-northstar mtns might have their good terrain open for 1/4 ski days, while Northstar will probably have their best stuff open 3/4 or 4/4 days.
A HUGE thank you to SnowStash (www.youtube.com/@snowstash ) for providing footage for this video. And don't forget to let us know of any other atrocities we missed ⬇⬇⬇
You forgot about the cost of food and beverage. We paid $55 USD for a pizza and garlic bread in North Tahoe. That’s like $85 AUD 😅
"Sierra Cement! " 😅 I'm hearing the billionaire next to me on the lift at Deer Valley !!!
Growing up in Colorado, I finally got to Heavenly for the 1st time last year.....18" pow dump , California blower like we don't get in Colorado.
Yeah, it was a horrible trip, i'll never go back, and you shouldn't either. 😂
Big Sierra Cement fan
Just need to hit rose or heavenly backside, they usually have much better snow
i’m learning how to ski at sierra and honestly it’s not too bad. it gets icy and it’s not the greatest snow (from what i’d imagine) but the wait times on the lifts aren’t bad and the slopes are pretty cool
@@ir1s307 Honestly I think Sierra is even better post fire, the west bowl is so fun on a powder day.
@@benshappell6339 So far i take the lift up the mountain and go down sugar n spice. sometimes backside, i’ll hit one blue there. I’ll check out west bowl on my next visit!
Quite cool how instead of making a separate video for each ski resort, you put it all into one video.
A haters guide to Mammoth: Hurry up and wait.
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You forgot about the outrageous prices heavenlys food is now I went this season and paid 27$ for a bloody mary and 25$ for 3 chicken fingers and a small fry
Great job fellas. Love the Homewood section. 👍
I know it's a haters guide, but I think Northstar is salvageable in a fix it video. Stop grooming a bunch of stuff for bumps calibrated for progression, thin out some glades, and adjust trails to be windier and more interesting. Make it a slice of New England skiing transported to CA. Granted, this is a lot of work, and not all of it is just doable.
Some day, when we're wholly devoid of other content to make 😂
Funny stuff. Really one of the worst things about skiing Tahoe is all the people and lift lines and crowded runs. So if videos like this manage to chase people off the mountain then I’m all in. So yeah, it’s the worst skiing on the planet people, stay away!
9:17 Yo I heard you like Palisades, so I put Palisades in your Palisades, so you can Palisade while you Palisade.
PS: 12:31 if you ever feel useless remember that there's the uninstalled Homewood gondolas sitting in their parking lot.
Bro definitely boards here… Grew up here having to get to know all of this the hard way lol
summit opened 2x last year on back to back weekends and the palisades opened 2 days as well :) @ SB... good thing you can still try to ski off a cliff if you know where to look
Rip my heavenly trip it’s gonna be 45 degrees💀
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Bro why? For the cost just go to CO or UT. Even Canada!
@@newagain9964 mom wanted to go
Lmao, California skier and I wholeheartedly agree. Mammoth up top. (Please do a hater’s guide to Mammoth.)
Made it 1.3 minutes before the negativity felt too gross. Hope you find some happiness dude.
I am one with the mountains I am one with the mountains I am one with the mountains I am one with the mountains I am one with the mountains I am one with the mountains [deep breath]
You should have rated these resorts, from worse to worsen.
Not a bad idea 😂
@@SRGSkiing One more thing, I really love the narrative/satire on your videos. It flows really well. My thought that you either wrote it down first, or if it comes out unscripted, then you really have a great talent. Don't give up, you are onto something.
All of our videos are scripted--not quite that talented 😂😭
That would be difficult as they are all the worst.
😂 recap: I had the joy of first skiing in Tahoe Christmas '89... You sir are hilarious and have captured the $pirit of the place.
Let it be known that it will always be SQUAW VALLEY! 😅 Yes it is the best place there... I have purchased full price lift tickets at every single resort you made fun of+ an extra 7 to $9 for some sticker to commemorate my visit to the f****** place... Add to that a few places in the Pacific Northwest... Stevens pass sucks ass😂 and Loveland Colorado can blow 🍃
Nowhere is as good as Bear, for Bay area dwellers... You'll be hating right there 🍻 buy me a beer 🐒 moron
No Kirkwood?
5:23
American skiing resorts seem pretty f'ed up. Plus for me to go over to the US to any of them would cost a lot.
Noted, will never see me in Tahoe 😂
I was a lifty at mt rose :(
I am so sorry 😂
Be honest though, was it all that bad? From the outside we genuinely have no way to tell. Only the online posts 😂
@ The online is post is kind of true but I still had a good time and I heard they may be making some changes that make is better for lifties. I started later in the season like at the end of February, I was taking time off from college and it took a while for a resort to hire me because it was kind of spontaneous. I ended up renting a room from someone who lives in the tiny neighborhood next to sky tavern for cheap. I was literally living right next to sky tavern. I didn't have a car at the time but it didn't matter because I would walk down to the highway and hitchike to work with my skis and would usually get picked up pretty quickly. My favorite part of the day was skiing home, I would literally cross the street from rose and ski down Sky Tavern to get home. The posts are true that the management kind of sucks and is corporate, but there were still other lifties my age and it was cool to hang out with. I'm just lucky they didn't fire me because early in my position there was a time someone fell off the lift right after getting on and I was tired and wasn't paying attention fully and waited 5 seconds to stop the lift after the lift had passed over the person multiple times. And they got in on camera and one of the higher ups was watching it live when it happened. So I was actually supposed to get fired but my boss told the higher ups not to fire me and instead I did ticket checking and the magic carpet the rest of the time I was there. So I think it is probably not the greatest ski resort to work at but they will hire pretty much anyone and it's harder to get fired than other places I think. They didn't really give us any ride time, or they did for other people who had been there longer and given the chance to get ride certified, but they don't even let you wear ski boots while you're working only snowboard boots. I think I heard they're thinking of adding an hour of free ride time for all lifties so things are slowly getting better but I'm not sure. I pretty much skiied on all my off days and once Rose went Thursday-Sunday the last couple weeks of the season I went and skied and Palisades and was somehow able to get there without a car, just hitchiking to Incline Village or around there usually and taking the bus the rest of the way. The guy I rented from also had me do some chores for money once the season was winding down before I went home, so that ended up being good.
@ and skiing the chutes after some powder on off days made up for the shitty work conditions, to be honest.
@@SRGSkiing I had some unique circumstances where I rented a room from someone in the sky tavern neighborhood and skied home after work.
Come on Dodge ridge is not actually that bad 😂
Dodge ridge has a good terrain park, but the lifts are slow. Bear valley better
But Dodge Ridge has the closest dirt to the Bay Area.
Mammoth/June solves all Tahoe gripes
Oh, you mean the wind capitol of the Earth?
Dodge Ridge has legit terrain all around, but access sucks, and lifts are slow af
With this much Corporate greed how can anybody afford to ski in the US? Maybe just Musk and his rich tech bros will be happy that there are no little people on the hill. Do you know how much Espace Killy with 600 km of runs and 90 lifts charges for a day pass? 70 euros! That's right not $270 plus for a dozen lifts built in the 1970s. You got to hand it to Corporate America, they really know how to spoil the world for everyone.
St.Anton would be our area, got chatting to few yank boarders.They were gob smacked how light years ahead European ski infrastructure is!
Oh my god is Tahoe that bad?
No, we just like making jokes 😂
@@SRGSkiing thank god
Bad? No. Worth the elevated cost? Hellz no.
for cost of staying in Tahoe, the poor logics and large crowds, it’s incredibly overrated. If cheaper, fine, a decent destination.
And then there’s the feast or famine nature of the weather. But whatever.
You also didn’t even ski at dodge ridge
Wish we had had the chance recently. A lot of these we visited when we were young, well before we started filming.
lmao 279 lift ticket? my AD epic pass is 100 cheaper than that
Tahoe sucks so bad FR
Love your criticism!!!😂😂😂😂😂
Pretty funny stuff. It means nothing, though, if you are a typical run of the mill skier, like myself who wouldn't know real power if it hit me in the eye, no pun intended. Just get me out on the Kirkwood bunny slopes on one of the those glorious sunny warm California winter days and I'm in heaven. My mantra is 2 runs in the morning, a 2 hour lunch, and 2 runs in the afternoon. Nothing beats it!
Fair enough, as long as you have your own way of enjoying, it works!