Lake Tahoe, yay or nay?

[Faithless]

Posted this before and lost it to the new board curse.

Went to South Lake Tahoe for a week. Been there before, and done that many times. Getting boring. Not the nature part, so much as, the shopping.

The Asian food sucks there. Chinese restaurants without much variety, and the Japanese food featuring only meat dishes.

If you've been there, do you still find it interesting everytime you go?

[mrazntre]

just for snowboarding

[Chris]

Snowboarding for me as well. Great ski/snowboard area. Love Heavenly :D

[sweetmangos]

yup same here. only go up there for the snow.

[mrazntre]

snow and hoes

[bigwong235]

just went there. it was great. w/a bunch of friends and a place to crash, i think anywhere would be fun.

[himura-dono]

big fucking thumbs down =(

i hate tahoe.

[Faithless]

big fucking thumbs down =(

i hate tahoe.

One reason why I don't like it is because it takes so frigging long to get there. (Three hours by car.)

I also don't like the jockying-for-position traffic that goes on once you get past Sacramento.

[mrazntre]

One reason why I don't like it is because it takes so frigging long to get there. (Three hours by car.)

I also don't like the jockying-for-position traffic that goes on once you get past Sacramento.



ONLY 3 hours... takes me about 7-8

[Chester]

At a certain age, this will be more of a shameful admission than a cool one, but one late night, I was hanging out with a few friends when one of my buddies -- who had just broken up with his girlfriend and was thus feeling kind of loopy -- came up with a random, 3AM suggestion: "Let's go to Tahoe."

We looked around at each other and collectively went, "Well, shit, let's go to Tahoe."

And so we all piled into the Pops's Autobahn barge and away we went. If you don't count the bathroom pit stop, from the Fremont/Milpitas border to the parking lot of Harrah's, the trip took us a shade over 2 hours.

It was insane. I think it only took us about an hour to get to Davis. We were cruising at average speeds of 115-120MPH. I'm still shocked we didn't get pulled over -- a cop could've seen how fast we were going from literally a mile away.

The speed gave us extra time to get outrageously loaded, at which point we ended up calling AT&T operators countless times in order to ascertain the difference between chocolate and fudge.

The one bad aspect to an otherwise-great bender was the fact that driving to Tahoe at 3AM, doing 135MPH down the Sunol Grade is roughly a thousand times more fun than the misery of driving away from Tahoe on a Sunday, at 10AM, doing roughly 25MPH in a horrific, miles-long traffic jam.

[Faithless]

That's dedication, man! :cool:

I did like the cross-country skiing when I first tried it a few years ago. Now there's a good workout.

ONLY 3 hours... takes me about 7-8

[Faithless]

Shameful, shameful. :rolleyes:

I got stuck in an old camper with friends years ago. It was snowing, and the damn camper had not heater. Someone had to go for gas or something and that took hours. F-f-f-f-f-hhhuck!

At a certain age, this will be more of a shameful admission than a cool one, but one late night, I was hanging out with a few friends when one of my buddies -- who had just broken up with his girlfriend and was thus feeling kind of loopy -- came up with a random, 3AM suggestion: "Let's go to Tahoe."

We looked around at each other and collectively went, "Well, shit, let's go to Tahoe."

And so we all piled into the Pops's Autobahn barge and away we went. If you don't count the bathroom pit stop, from the Fremont/Milpitas border to the parking lot of Harrah's, the trip took us a shade over 2 hours.

It was insane. I think it only took us about an hour to get to Davis. We were cruising at average speeds of 115-120MPH. I'm still shocked we didn't get pulled over -- a cop could've seen how fast we were going from literally a mile away.

The speed gave us extra time to get outrageously loaded, at which point we ended up calling AT&T operators countless times in order to ascertain the difference between chocolate and fudge.

The one bad aspect to an otherwise-great bender was the fact that driving to Tahoe at 3AM, doing 135MPH down the Sunol Grade is roughly a thousand times more fun than the misery of driving away from Tahoe on a Sunday, at 10AM, doing roughly 25MPH in a horrific, miles-long traffic jam.

[mrazntre]

That's dedication, man! :cool:

I did like the cross-country skiing when I first tried it a few years ago. Now there's a good workout.


d00d. i went to heavenly and stupid me didn't wanna wait in line to go down the people mover (i think they closed the main run for some reason) so i go down the "alternate route" which is TERRIBLE for snowboarders (i find out later it's more like a cross-country ski route). My legs had already started to cramp up that day and I was pretty much jacked. I think it took me nearly an hour and a half to get to base camp.... i was DEAD!!!!!!!!!!

[angel nympho]

Go to Heavenly Ski Resort. The snowboarding is excellent.

[kboy75]

tahoe is great for snowboarding and golf.

i actually do not like heavenly at all. especially for boarding. sure, it's the biggest, but it has too many cat tracks (flats) and i hate doing that cross country snowboarding action. it's better suited for skiing.

i've been boarding since '94 and the best places to board in tahoe are on the north side of tahoe. northstar is great; great backside. on the south side kirkwood is pretty good; an advanced mountain and always the most powder.

but if you really want a good snowboarding trip, you need to go to Whistler, B.C., Canada. Best place in North America.

[Faithless]

Another annual week of Tahoe, and it seems like nothing changes.

It just seems to get more run down looking in parts.

That amusement park along highway 50. It's been there for 40 or 50 years, according to people who work there. The rides are primarily for kids and look rickety.

The best thing is the go carts you can drive. But tickets cost about $4 a person.

About the only good thing about the amusement park is that it doesn't get much activity lately, and so the rides are a lot longer for the kids.

The amusement park is hiring / using immigrant labor from Eastern Europe. Supposedly unbenefitted minimum wage workers.

The one Asian Indian worker there, a lady, says that immigrant labor is prevalent in Tahoe.

Tahoe casino business is down due to the fact that Indian casinos in California are taking up the business.