Location: Peavine Mtn. and Dogskin Mtn. Conditions: Filled in and supportable snow to 5,000 feet. Mix of blower pow, windbuff, punchy crusts. Hazards: Wind loaded pockets Wow, what an awesome two days its been in Nevada! Our low elevation snowpack is abnormally filled in, and nearly all of the local peaks are skiable. We took advantage of this by getting an (unusually good) descent off Peavine, and skiing a possible first descent on Dogskin Mountain. Lets hope the storms keep

Location: North side of Peavine Mountain Area (Granite Peak) Conditions: Decently good, creamy snow and a few sagebrush tip knockers down low, getting lighter and windloading higher up. Concerns: Windloading on top of several weird layers. Watch out at higher elevations and on windloaded slopes. The good: Reno folks are going to have a backyard stash this week. Sagebrush tip knockers are good anchors. The bad: Sagebrush tip knockers, barbed wire fence approach, winds and we

I promised everyone that I would post a little bit about our trip to Japan, and since we've returned -I guess that its now or never! In summary, we basically had the dirtbag dream tour of Honshu (Japan's main island). Three of us spent two and a half weeks in a camper van, traversing some of the country's best offerings, and exploring fantastic new zones almost every day. As might have been expected, we enjoyed a ton of powder skiing -but we also skied some gnarlier lines, sw