Here we are. Never been here before. Stayed in South Lake Tahoe and had I been here before I would have dropped in on the north side. Though at least there's stuff to do here at night which of course after a day of skiing and/or driving you're ready to tear up the town.

Heavenly is a fairly mellow mountain but has spectacular views of the lake. Maybe not so mellow for Sonny who met his fate a a year before but hard as a tried I couldn't seem to recreate the incident.

A fine place to go for the first ski day on this trip.

I knew that we were on the California-Nevada border but I didn't expect this. Plenty of signage keeps you abreast of what state you are skiing in. I suppose that means certain things are more legal on some trails than others. It's all rather strange but fortunately it's all the same time zone or I would have been really confused.

Tahoe is a really neat place. There seems to be plenty to do all year around and once you get out of So. Tahoe it's incredibly beautiful. You seem to have all the essentials at your finger tips - skiing, hiking, sailing, biking (if you ignore that angel movie where she died at the end), running and gambling. We really stopped in because we had never been here before and it seemed like it was on the way to Utah. Glad we did. If you haven't figured it out the grand plan is to fly out of Salt Lake at the end of the month (we're simple folk) but based on the next couple of weeks this may be difficult to understand.

The next day we skied Squaw. Cool mountain (it would be my favorite in the area until Kirkwood replaced it). Yoko is really into the Olympic thing but the unusual feature is the swimming pool mid-mountain. I never thought to bring something to swim in.

Spring conditions were beginning to emerge so we were anxious to get moving. We're still just getting started.