August 19, 2024. slowly, things are changing.
The first signs of fall are slowly creeping their way into Northern Nevada. Warm days continue but the crisp mornings are becoming more common. The aspen forests in the upper elevations are beginning to show the first slight changes from deep green to a lighter tone. A cold front is expected this weekend with high […]
July 2, 2024. Hot Ruby Summer.
After a beautiful Spring Season, the summer heat is here in the Lamoille Valley with temperatures climbing into the mid to high 90’s next week. There is still a lot of snow in the upper, north facing elevations. Lamoille Lake is still half frozen but not for long as the summer is settling in. My […]
April 15, 2024. dreamed it all ever since we were young.
47 years. It seems like yesterday the first snow was falling for the 2023/2024 season. A lot of work goes into each day, each tour, each season, I took a week after our season finished to process everything that went into the 47th year of Ruby. People ask me a lot what is it like […]
April 3, 2024. remember.
An anniversary we will always hold close and remember. We remembered the day by skiing off the giants in Thorpe Creek. Some of the highest vertical in the range with 2,700+ foot runs. Spring weather has created a temperature crust on lower elevations and solar aspects. North aspects are holding cold snow and the best […]
April 2, 2024. records.
Count them, 14 runs today, with four groups on the mountain. A record day for the 2024 season. Long and Segunda Canyon in the Southern Rubies, skiing several runs for the first time in 2024 and one run for the first time in decades. Cold snow on north aspects and warming snow on solar aspects. […]
April 1, 2024. no jokes.
For the third straight year- April bringing some of the best skiing of the season. 10 runs in the high alpine, it doesn’t get any higher in the Rubies: Triangle Peak, The Ruby Dome, The Come Line and others. Incredible skiing with cold snow on all aspects skied today. Beautiful flying conditions and a mind […]
March 31, 2024. rabbit rabbit rabbit.
Happy Easter! We skied extra vertical today in Conrad Creek in the snowcats due to incoming snow and cloud cover. A great way to end the tour with several runs on new snow. 23 runs in the last three days at Ruby. Snow is currently falling at the lodge elevation with a reset likely throughout […]
March 30, 2024. peak night.
The expected weather system forecast to bring accumulating snow to the area beginning this morning was delayed, allowing us to ski two runs in the aircraft before transitioning to the snowcat for 6 additional runs and weather deteriorated. Like true Ruby magic, clouds decreased in the afternoon, with an unforecasted lull in the weather system. […]
March 29, 2024. Good Friday.
Ten runs for three groups and eleven runs for one group on day one of the final weekend three-day tour of the 2024 season. Shallow powder skiing on each run after yesterday morning’s new snow set us up well for an incredible day in the mountains today. We skied lower Talbot Creek and opened up […]
March 28, 2024. thunder snow.
We lost power at the lodge around 6:30 AM due to a strong electrical storm, thunder snow, wind and heavy snowfall. Power was restored around 9AM. More than 5″ of snow in less than 2 hours at the lodge elevation. 8″ of new snow in Conrad Creek and seven runs in the snowcats for the […]
