What To Do In April?

While April is a winter month in Tahoe, it is a glorious time for spring skiing. We have massive amounts of snow, but the weather is relatively warm. So grab your boards and come up the mountain.

This photo is the view looking south from the North Shore. On the left are the ski runs of Heavenly, Tahoe's highest resort at 10,067 feet. On the right are the scree fields of the Freel Peak Massif, which, at 10,886 feet is the highest mountain on the lake. (If you go a little south of the Tahoe Basin - toward Yosemite - you come to many higher peaks.) Freel's scree fields are long tracks of crumbling rock in the summer. They look like ski runs in the winter. And they are sometimes skied by serious back-country skiers. But beware, they are also avalanche paths!