We went out to Squaw for an afternoon of skiing and found it to be either very good or (mostly) very bad. It got warm the day before and then froze, so most of the mountain was iced over. Granite Chief in particular was especially heinous.

However, we did find some nice spring snow on the left edge of East Face.

It was quite warm out (I didn’t wear long johns or a shell) but there was no cloud cover to diffuse the heat, so only runs in direct sunlight softened up.

We also found nice snow on Squaw Creek—here’s Nancy using the baby trees as gates on Montezuma’s.

We went into Tahoe City to get some sandwiches and had lunch on the public pier. Afterwards we headed back to Squaw to watch a backcountry slideshow by a local badass.