Lake Tahoe Ski Areas Prices and Reports 1998-1999

08/18/99. Sierra-at-Tahoe is currently offering mid-week passes for $199, and full season passes for $399. Here's the link: http://www.sierratahoe.com/seasonpass.html

08/18/99. Squaw is offering around $200 off their season passes if you buy before September 1. So if you're the kind of person who can afford a season pass to Squaw, then will you please adopt me? No, um, i mean, you should probably check this link out: http://summer.squaw.com/html/winterpass.html

08/17/99. Ken seems to think that this is a good deal from Squaw: Early-season package -- 2 nights lodging/2 days skiing, ski in/out packages starting at just $83 per person, per night, INCLUDING a free ski lesson! This offer is based on double occupancy and available opening day through 12/16/99. Call now, 1-800-545-4350, for complete vacation planning assistance, any time of year. There's a webpage, too: http://winter.squaw.com/html/packages.html (Now i'm all for planning ahead, but i think it's still a little early for to be making reservations for December! :-)

08/10/99. The Tahoe Card is available at a discount preseason price until September? Only $20! Jim says: "It's even a better card than last year. Way more hotels and restaurants plus the Dave's FREE demo is a great addition."

2/9/99. Hey, could you do something useful, already?

Sort! Click on the heading you want to sort by, and it'll re-sort it according to that field.

Resort	Reports	Phone Numbers	One Full Day (98-99 $ )	Half Day (From 12:30 pm)	2 Days	3 Days	4 Days	5 Days	6 Days
Alpine Meadows Discounts	User-Submitted Camera Resort	530 583-4232 info 530 581-8374 snowphone	$48 (+48)	$36	$94	$141	N/A	$235	N/A
Bear Valley Discounts	User-Submitted Resort	209 753-2301 info and snowphone	$35 (+35)	$26	$65	$93	$120	N/A	N/A
Boreal Discounts	User-Submitted Resort	530 426-3666 info and snowphone	$28 (+28)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Diamond Peak Discounts	User-Submitted Resort	702 832-1177 info 702 831-3211 snowphone	$38 (+38)	$28	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Dodge Ridge Discounts	User-Submitted Resort	209 965-3474 info 209 965-4444 snowphone	$39+ (+39)	$25+	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Donner Ski Ranch Discounts	User-Submitted Resort	530 426-3635 info and snowphone	$23 (+23)	$17*	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Heavenly Discounts	User-Submitted Camera Resort	702 586-7000 info 530 541-7544 snowphone	$52 (+52)	$36	$94	$147	$192	$230	$270
Homewood Discounts	User-Submitted Resort	530 525-2992 info 530 525-2900 snowphone	$36 (+36)	$26	$67	$96 (3/4)	N/A	N/A	N/A
Kirkwood Discounts	User-Submitted Resort	209 258-6000 info 408 436-SNOW	$45 (+45)	$35	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mt. Rose Discounts	User-Submitted Resort	702-849-0704 info and snowphone	$42 (+42)	$29	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Northstar at Tahoe Discounts	User-Submitted Camera Resort	530 562-2286 info 530 562-1330 snowphone	$48 (+48)	$34	$90	$127 (3/4)	$167 (4/5)	$207 (5/6)	$248 (6/7)
Sierra-At-Tahoe Discounts	User-Submitted Camera Resort	530 659-7453 info 530 659-7475 snowphone	$45 (+45)	$32	$80	$116	N/A	N/A	N/A
Soda Springs Discounts	User-Submitted Resort	530 426-1010 info and snowphone	$16 (+16)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Squaw Valley USA Discounts	User-Submitted Camera Resort	530 583-6985 info 530 583-6955 snowphone	$49 (+49)	$33	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Sugar Bowl Discounts	User-Submitted Resort	530 426-9000 info 530 426-1111 snowphone	$45 (+45)	$30	$80	$114	N/A	N/A	N/A
Tahoe Donner Discounts	User-Submitted Resort	530 587-9444 info (during business hours) 530 587-9494 snowphone	$26 (+26)	$15	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Notes:

+Dodge Ridge actually has weekday rates! $25 all day, Mon.-Fri.
*Donner Ski Ranch's Half-Day starts at 1:00pm

Sorry kids. All these are adult prices. Do check the sites though, because a lot of places are offering discounted tickets if you're 18-22, etc. But bah, i'm not. >:-P

If you're wondering what all the (3/4) and (5/6) stuff is about, it's a lift ticket that's good for 3 out of 4 days. So you don't have to ski three days in a row, but can take one day off.

Links:

rec.skiing.alpine is a Usenet newsgroup. Now if you have no idea what that means, and that link gave you some error about not being able to find a news server, that's ok, try this one. r.s.a., as it's affectionately known, is where skiers (and a couple of snowboarders such as myself) hang out to discuss anything and everything that might possibly relate to riding on snow. Great bunch of people, and great information (well, most of the time.)

ShredGeezers is "primarily a snowboard club catering to the Bay Area snowboarder over 25." Ok, whatever. Personally, i would hate to pigeonhole myself into only hanging out with snowboarders that are around my age. But Dave has some really good information and advice on everything from snowchains to manners to equipment. Check it out.

Southland Ski Server is the the Southern California counterpart to this page, except that Mark is even more obsessed than me. :}

Lots of good skiing/snowboarding info is available in the
<shameless plug>rec.skiing FAQ</shameless plug>.

At Play's page is one of those commercial sites i was talking about. No side-by-side price comparisons. It does have an ok map, though.

SnoWeb's page isn't bad. Lots of info. But still, all i want (and maybe all *you* want) is prices.

Bay Area Ski Connection has good resort reviews, side by side comparisons of prices, along with other options, links to ski clubs, and reports too! Check 'em out.

A couple of weather links that i use: The Weather Channel and National Weather Service.

Much as i hate to support the evil empire, their San Francisco Sidewalk has a good bunch of reviews of the Tahoe resorts.

Miscellanea:

This page was created because none of the sites out there had a side-by-side comparison of prices. And, they were all pretty commercial. i figured i could find the info that i wanted, and make it available to the net. Give something back, if you will.

Now that users can submit their own snow reports, i'm really hoping that this becomes a valuable resource to the snowboarding/skiing net community.

All of these prices have been confirmed by visiting their webpages. Nonetheless, i am not responsible for the accuracy of any of the information on this page. Certainly you should call the numbers listed, or check the links yourself if you want to be sure of the prices.