Wow @textrovert , Squaw didn't look anything like that for us. We got there about 8:15 and the Funitel line was way bigger than @Chickenmonkey 's. It filled up completely to the Member's locker room. I figured we had made a tactical error and gone up with the tee shirt seekers. Force through this line and everything would clear out. The line did move so we were able to eventually upload. Before my bladder exceeded capacity. The bathrooms up top were busy.
We did get there early enough to score a tee shirt! Very cool. Skied straight on to Big Blue. OK, maybe our timing wasn't so bad. Get a couple laps on Shirley while it's early. Oops. Looking down into Shirley we saw an immense crowd. Where did they come from? I really wanted to make a couple turns to feel my new Head Super Joys so we dropped in. No beach ball today but that line sure moves fast considering how many people were there. Riding the chair up, we saw hordes of people coming down. Everyone on our chair was scared off. We followed a horde back to the Funitel.
Now I was thinking that we totally were blowing it by giving up so early. This wave we were in was a bunch of tee shirt seekers and the mountain would clear out soon. Wrong! When we got to the Funitel, it was disgorging mass quantities of people. Now there were huge lines on Gold Coast and Big Blue. I can't imagine Shirley. We rode down with someone from the ride up.
Bailing early let us take mom into Truckee for some shopping and touristing. Oops, if the lines at Squaw were long, this was a crowd at another level. Remnants of a parade were driving against us. Until we stopped. We u turned and headed back to Squaw. By now, we were getting into the crowd scene so we decided to head into Tahoe City.
Made it as far as the Bridgetender where we found a park, a table and got a wonderful lunch. A hike to look at the dam and the lake was just right. Made it back against the traffic flow after a nice outing.
We got back to Squaw early enough that I hoped to find the Pugski tailgate. Road my bike around the full parking lot but couldn't find them. Sigh.
Fun day - more for people watching than skiing. Squaw did too good a job getting people up. But it was a fun vibe.
Eric
We did get there early enough to score a tee shirt! Very cool. Skied straight on to Big Blue. OK, maybe our timing wasn't so bad. Get a couple laps on Shirley while it's early. Oops. Looking down into Shirley we saw an immense crowd. Where did they come from? I really wanted to make a couple turns to feel my new Head Super Joys so we dropped in. No beach ball today but that line sure moves fast considering how many people were there. Riding the chair up, we saw hordes of people coming down. Everyone on our chair was scared off. We followed a horde back to the Funitel.
Now I was thinking that we totally were blowing it by giving up so early. This wave we were in was a bunch of tee shirt seekers and the mountain would clear out soon. Wrong! When we got to the Funitel, it was disgorging mass quantities of people. Now there were huge lines on Gold Coast and Big Blue. I can't imagine Shirley. We rode down with someone from the ride up.
Bailing early let us take mom into Truckee for some shopping and touristing. Oops, if the lines at Squaw were long, this was a crowd at another level. Remnants of a parade were driving against us. Until we stopped. We u turned and headed back to Squaw. By now, we were getting into the crowd scene so we decided to head into Tahoe City.
Made it as far as the Bridgetender where we found a park, a table and got a wonderful lunch. A hike to look at the dam and the lake was just right. Made it back against the traffic flow after a nice outing.
We got back to Squaw early enough that I hoped to find the Pugski tailgate. Road my bike around the full parking lot but couldn't find them. Sigh.
Fun day - more for people watching than skiing. Squaw did too good a job getting people up. But it was a fun vibe.
Eric
Wish we could have been there today. Agree on the celebration vibe everywhere. Good times to be had for sure.
