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Last Wednesday, my dad approached me with an interesting proposition: he thought that we should take advantage of the weekend to hit the ski slopes. I had nothing better to do and I love skiing so I agreed with him and just like that, we went to the ski rental shop, got our blades and embarked on our long drive. The three of us (my friend Vivek came along too) left on Friday and headed to Sacramento where we stayed at our family friends house.

Saturday morning, we all woke up at 6am (earlier than I’ve woken up in a long time) and headed up to the mountains. As Vivek slept in the back of the car, my dad and I were eager to get to Northstar (our intended destination), but ran into a serious snow storm before the Donnor Pass. The weather worsened as we made our way up the mountain and we didn’t have snow chains, so we decided to stop at Boreal. We spent the day there, skiing and enjoying the seriously bi-polar weather (snowy and cold one minuted, and then bright and sunny the next), but the resort was pretty small and we ended up hitting almost all the runs that were our level.

Sunday, the weather was much better so we drove the extra couple of miles to Northstar and skied there for the day. It was a beautiful day, and so Northstar was ridiculously crowded, but we found one lift that oddly stayed empty throughout the day. We got some nice runs in and around 2:30 we shed our ski clothes and made the 4 hour journey back to the Bay.

I haven’t been skiing in a really long time (the lift ticket on my ski pants told me that the last time was February 12, 2006) and I’d forgotten how fun it was. Actually, I’ve started ski-blading (really short ski’s but I still consider it skiing) and I’m really excited to head back which is why I named this article “Tahoe Trip #1″; I hope there will be another one soon. Anyway, I wanted to put up some pictures from the trip, most were taken by my dad but he did a pretty good job.

chairlifts in the snow at Boreal (Day 1)

the sun and the terrain park at Boreal

beautiful weather at northstar looking at East Ridge Run