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Bluebird Ski Day at Palisades Tahoe

·Placer County, California·#winter#skiing#lake tahoe#sierra nevada
A smiling person in a beanie and sunglasses stands on a snowy mountain with trees and ski slopes under a blue sky.

Bluebird day at Palisades, and midweek besides, so the drive over from Truckee was easy and the hill felt roomy. Not a cloud anywhere, which after the weeks of storms this season felt almost strange — you could see every line off the granite above the base, tracks all over the steeps.

Got up high enough on the Tahoe side that the whole lake opened up, snow on the ridges all the way around it. That view never stops working on me, even living twenty minutes away.

The moon was out over the trees most of the afternoon, half of it hanging there in the blue. Warm enough in the sun to ski in a puffy and a beanie, no goggles needed. Some of the trees lower down are still brown from the dry fall.

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