Lake Tahoe’s Must Ski Mogul Runs

By: Blog Tahoe

Some of you out there may be in the mindset that mogul fields should be avoided at all costs. Who wants to spend the better part

of an hour making uncomfortably tight turns around gigantic mounds of humiliation, right? True as this may be some people heading for Lake Tahoe Ski Resorts may actually look forward to a full day of self inflicted jack hammering pain. For them we offer Lake Tahoe’s must ski mogul runs:

1. Gunbarrel at Heavenly

Arguably the most notorious mogul run in the Lake Tahoe area. It’s fairly steep, fairly sustained and at 1700 vertical feet, it’s fairly long. This monster of a mogul field has played host to Glen Plake’s Gunbarrel 25. This extreme mogul skiing event challenges participants to take 25 laps down Gunbarrel in a single day. That’s 42,500 vertical feet of mogul folks. Crazy.

2. The West Face of KT22 (aka Mosely’s Run) at Squaw Valley

Named after famed mogul skier Jonny Mosely the (N)West Face of Squaw Valley’s KT22 is another legendary Lake Tahoe mogul run. I’ve heard vertical feet numbers in the 1800-1900 range. Whatever the number, it’s steep, long and not for the faint of heart.

3. Waterfall at Alpine Meadows

The Ward’s Peak area off the Six Chair is home to the large and in charge moguls of Waterfall. It can take a while for these bumps to hit their stride but when they do they get big, very big. It’s like skiing in a junkyard, on a hill, covered in snow. Fun stuff.

4.Silver Belt to Steilhang at Sugar Bowl

This is the famous giant slalom course at Sugar Bowl which hosted the “Silver Belt to Steilhang” event from 1940-1975. Take the chair to the top of Mt. Lincoln, drop through some tight terrian, down a gully and into a healthy mogul field. Sound like an event you’d like to participate in. Word has it the crazy giant slalom event was revived for a time in an invite only skier-cross style race.

5.Mogul Rock and Waterfall at Boreal

Located right next to each other off the 49′er Triple Chair at Boreal Mountain Resort, Mogul Rock and (more popularly) Waterfall are pretty short and only moderately steep. So, why are they on the list? Well, Boreal attracts a lot of beginner to intermediates skiers who inevitably take a ride up the 49′er lift. One can’t help but stare at the runs which are easily the hardest at Boreal (except for maybe some tree skiing off the Cedar Ridge Chair). Temptation and curiosity get the better of many a Boreal skier who end up at a dead stops all over the run. If you know how to ski moguls (and somehow end up at Boreal) this can be a fun place to strut your stuff. Your guaranteed a captive audience.

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