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Skiing at Heavenly Resort, South Lake Tahoe

Went to Tahoe yet again early this morning with Dennis, Yori and Edouard. We decided to skip the California side and start directly on the Nevada side. Much much better slopes. First half of the day, it was all sunny and spring-like skiing and pretty warm even. In the afternoon, it started snowing and visibility many times was zero. Was pretty hard skiing, but one thing I found out is that I skiied more with instinct if I did not see where I was going. I just reacted to what I felt I had to do to keep my balance, rather than pre-calculating it based on what I saw the slopes/bumps to be. So maybe that was a blessing in diguise :)

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Skiing/Snowboarding Trip at Lake Tahoe

I had worked during the Thanksgiving holidays, as I don't like to travel when everybody else travels and had asked my boss if I could swap out the days off another time. So I took them out this past week and went to Tahoe from Thursday to Sunday. Had to make use of the season pass I bought for heavenly ski resort. I think that by now I have paid off the price of the season pass already from the number of times I have already gone. Each lift ticket per day at heavenly cost $84. Season pass was the best way to go.

I had bought my skis from craigslist this time and did not have to rent skis. But I also wanted to snowboard and before going, I went to Sports basement on Wednesday night and got a snowboard and boots. All their gear was brand new and the boots even had silica gel still in them. Sports basement has this awesome deal of $30 for 2-3 days (supposedly weekend), but they allow me to pick it up on Wednesday night and drop it on Monday evening. Can't be more awesome and cheaper than that.