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The ski season in Tahoe last year felt like the one that never ended. Squaw Valley kept winter alive into July, thanks to a cumulative 719 inches of snowfall. Committed skiers kept going well into August - hiking to hanging snowfields high up in the Sierra, skis attached to their backpacks. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Spring is arguably the best time of year for skiing. It means sleeping in, wearing costumes, riding slushy corn and hanging out on warm sundecks in between runs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Before dawn on a mid-January morning, wind from an incoming blizzard swept down a river valley on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada and knocked on Bryan Allegretto's window. Allegretto, 38, had been up since 4 a.m., sitting at his kitchen table in slippers and sweatpants with a cup of coffee, his gaze locked on his laptop, scouring weather models and meteorology websites. A storm was coming, and Allegretto needed to write a weather report. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Every winter, the onslaught begins again. It's predictable, reliable and irritating. When a powder day aligns with a weekend or a holiday, Tahoe's rural network of two-lane highways becomes as tightly packed as Sierra cement with a string of Teslas, Tacomas, Subarus and Priuses rolling slowly along with the click-clack of chains. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Every winter, Jim Gibson makes several trips to the Sierra Nevada, where he clicks into his Nordic skis and glides into the forest. When snow falls, the roads and trails disappear, presenting a frozen landscape that offers skiers like Gibson an unparalleled sense of freedom to explore the remote regions of the High Sierra. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Buying a lift ticket for one day of skiing could cost you $160 in Lake Tahoe this winter, which is why most people skip the ticket office altogether and walk straight to the lifts, season pass in pocket. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]