The 42 hardest ski runs North Lake Tahoe has to offer.

By: Aaron Robbins

It happens all the time. You spot a nice challenging run from the safety of a chairlift only to find it’s twice as steep and 3 times as narrow when viewed from the top. Over the last 2 decades I’ve skied quite a few of Lake Tahoe’s black diamonds. I’ve also taken a rain check

on more than one. As this year’s ski season gets started I thought it would be fun to look at the hardest runs Lake Tahoe has to offer. Also, it seemed like a nice follow up to the article I posted yesterday, “The worst snowboard accident I ever saw.” We’ll start with the North Shore’s hardest runs and then take a look at South Shore. Feel free to add a comment or drop me a line if I’ve left any out. Enjoy.

Sugar Bowl’s Double Blacks
1. Crow’s Face
2. Strawberry Fields
3. The Palisades
4. The ‘58
5. Fuller’s Folley
6. Sisters
7. Rahlves’ Run
8. East face (maybe outside boundary)
9. Roller Pass
10. Judah Bowl
11. Emigrant Glades
12. Pacific Crest Glades
13. Graydon Glades

Squaw Valley’s Hardest Areas
Squaw doesn’t really name or rate their runs. Instead, the resort is sectioned into areas named after the chairlift servicing them. The lifts are given a name and a rating which corresponds to the general difficulty of the trails in that area. With that said here are some of Squaws most challenging areas.
14. Granite Chief
15. Siberia Bowl
16. The Slot Area
17. G.S Bowl
18. East Face

Alpine Meadows’ Double Blacks
19. Scott Chute
20. Hidden Knolls
21. Sherwood Cliffs
22. Counter Weight Gully
23. High Yellow Gully
24. High Yellow Face
25. Our Father Traverse
26. Keyhole
27. Palisades
28. Wolverine Saddle
29. Peter’s Peril
20. Waterfall
31. Bernie’s Bowl
32. South Beaver
33. Beaver Bowl
34. Estelle Bowl
35. The Buttress
36. Pond Slope

Northstar-at-Tahoe’s Hardest Run
Northstardoesn’t have and official runs rated as double blacks, so, I took a quick consensus.
37.Corridor

Homewood’s double blacks
Homewood used to named this area after the degree of the run’s slope. Now the runs have actual names which are listed below.
38. Quail Face Area
39. Main Cirque
30. SS Chutes
41. Wally’s Jolly
42. The Shoulder

Stay tuned as we tackle South Shore’s hardest runs.

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