I went up for a quick trip to Lake Tahoe for some spring snowboarding and also hit the Gizmodo party at NorthStar. Gizmodo is a gadget site and if your a geek or just love gadgets its definatly worth a daily read.

Gizmodo has a cool party with lots of food drinks, and a pretty kick ass DJ. Rumor has it that their will be a download of what he was playing soon.

The snow was great the weather was about 40-45F and well the lines where non existent. Anyhow here are some pics of the last of the snow season in lake tahoe… Enjoy…

Little GPS tracker on the iP

hone called MotionX

GPS this allowed me to track my average speed, max speed and time.  This was on the way back from Tahoe usually a 3+ hr trip.

Ok, Car is a bit packed with my snowboard and had to make sure it wouldn’t hit me in the head while driving up to Tahoe.

Shall I stop for some wine, Sonoma and Napa are so close.

After a drive its always good to refresh with a IPA or two

BridgeTender Bar in Tahoe City.  I have been going to this place for years and from the cabin its about 1 mile hike down, of course never made it hiking back up after drinks

My board, about time to upgrade, my bindings are screwed up and almost came off at the end of the day.

Look Ma, no lines!

Trail map of NorthStar

Can you hear me now? Yes I have 3G on the top of the mountain.

In the background you can see a tiny bit of Lake Tahoe

You are here.

Snow on the mountain but dry down below.

Picture of the half pipe

Good day of snowboarding in the spring… Off to the Gizmodo party for some food, drinks and prizes.

Bye bye Northstar.  This is a picture of the backside.

Till next season, now time to dust off the mountain bike.

North Star,
originally uploaded by Gate-Way.

You just cant be a view like this. This picture was taken at the top of NorthStar at Lake Tahoe on the East Ridge run, while this looks cool I would avoid it if your a snowboarder. There seems to be way way to many flat spots along the Ridge to get to the snow park and half pipe.

It’s been a great season so far and while spending a week up in Tahoe over the Xmas Holidays I was able to get in some good days, and I also made it up with some friends a weekend ago. Today im checking the forecast and 3-4 extra feet of snow just dropped in the last few days. This looks like its going to be one hell of a season and if you ski or snowboard at Lake Tahoe this is the year to go.

More info on this sucker.. all I can say this was gooood…

I have always known about the many hiking trails behind the cabin but I did not know that their is a 2 and 1/2 mile hike from the cabin to our one of our favoritate brew pubs, so Thomas and I strapped on our snow shoes and ran down the trail for some beer and believe it or not we did it much faster with in the snow than during our summer trip.