However, what I found interesting even more than the snow was the fact that by Monday or Tuesday the Temperatures don't go below freezing for a week in town which is very unusual for Mt. Shasta in January. So, whatever snow in town likely will melt off by the end of next week or sooner because of the warmer weather coming. But, tonight it will be 22 degrees in mt. Shasta and in Lake Tahoe it will be 23 degrees Fahrenheit too. I think Tahoe got up to a foot or more of new snow with the last storm today at higher elevations which is one of the reasons that the avalanche happened at Pallisades snow Park in Lake Tahoe area and one died and one was injured or more.
I have skied down the valley where the Avalanche came down and that mountain is one of the steepest routes on the mountain which just opened in the morning for the very first time which is likely why they hadn't been shooting cannons at it yet to bring down the snow. They likely thought they could make it through one day without an avalanche but didn't understand the problems there inherently today.
I used to like to take the Gondola up to the top of the mountain next to where the Avalanche occurred but I never felt safe enough skiing the route where the Avalanche occurred because it was usually too scary for me. I used to be a black diamond skier until about when Covid hit but I find most skiers often stop skiing downhill at least by their mid 70s even though I have a distant relative in his late 70s still competing as a skier in Austria now.
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