Lake Tahoe Ice Caves

Last week my good buddies Greg Lindsey, George Hjelte, Cody Townsend, and Myself went out on a little mission to find the hidden Ice Caves of North Lake Tahoe. Greg had been showed them last summer & was our navigator for the afternoon. The rest of us had never been up to the caves before. Explaining how to get to these caves would not be possible. Greg our fearless leader had plenty of trouble finding them even after he had been to the caves several times before. So, anybody who reads this post and has the desire to explore the mysterious ice caves of Lake Tahoe, I would highly recommend finding somebody who has been to them before to show you the way.

As you can see from the pictures below these caves are a bit intimidating. Basically you crawl your way down narrow dark canals of slippery cold rock. We probably crawled our way down 150ft - 200ft of ice cave. I would not recommend this adventure to anybody who is slightly claustrophobic. We explored 3 or 4 different labyrinth style rooms carved out in the earth. We stumbled across another entrance to what seemed to be fairly unexplored territory. Unfortunately, we were running short on time due to the fact the several of us had to make it to work on time. We had a blast & I'm looking forward to heading back to the caves for some more exciting exploration.


Cody getting ready to take the plunge!


Getting cold & scary!


One of the Labyrinth style room carved out in the Caves. Notice the ice formed all over the rock walls.


An extended exposure deep in the cavity of the ice caves.


Our leader Greg Lindsey exiting the Ice Caves.

CODY TOWNSEND & MIKE DOUGLAS GO WAVE SKIING IN HAWAII

Such a cool project. Sounds like the ski technologies for wave skiing could be greatly improved. This could be great R&D for not just wave skiing, but future snow ski technologies as well. Hope you guys keep exploring the possibilities in wave skiing sport.

DECEMBER WINTER STORM CYCLE IN TAHOE

ROUND TOP MOUNTAIN

(Cody Townsend Skins up toward Round Top Mountain)

(JT Holmes Portrait)

(Early Season Black & White of Winnemucca Lake & Surrounding Mountains)

(Black & White Tree Carson Pass)

WINTER COMING IN HOT!

(Ullr & Koyuh Charging The Resort at Squaw Creek Golf Course)

(Window View Early Morning Pow)

(Rad Dog Powder Morning Line Up)

(Linker & Messing Red Dog Chair Lift Ride)

(Black & White Broken Arrow View)

(Gregger With Some Familiar Face In The Background)

(Jeff Wright Extra Bitch-en Pow Turn)

(Nate All Smiles After His First Pow Day at Squaw)

(Late Afternoon Skin)

(Early Evening Descent)

(Hopefully the Storms Keep Coming)

CODY TOWNSEND GOES STREAKING OFF THE PALISADES!

(Two perfectly heterosexual men streak the palisades in honor of Shane McConkey)

So the night before Cody Townsend & Greg Lindsey decided to go streaking off the Palisades Cody came into Sandy's Pub & sat at the bar to have a couple of drinks & some chow. I happened to be bar tending that night and Cody & I got to chatting about Shane and how he was the fucking coolest!

Then we started talking about ways to honor Shane & the types of things that would be remotely worthy of honoring him. Cody mentioned something about the Squaw Valley Dare Force. I'm not going to go into the details of what that is, because it doesn't really exist yet, but I'm gonna throw it out there and say that it will.

Mainly, Cody and I spoke about doing crazy things that are somewhat stupid and very dangerous. Right before Cody left the bar we made plans to go skiing before Shane's service. He told me I should bring my camera. He didn't really tell me why or what he had planned, but when Cody tells you to bring a camera to capture something it generally means something is going to go down that day.

(Cody Townsend & Greg Lindsey Stacked Naked Spreads off The Palisades!)

LEVITATION PROJECTS SICK TEAM EDIT!

5 REASON I THINK THIS KICK ASS!

1. TALKING HEADS, ONE OF THE BEST BANDS OF ALL TIME

2. CODY & ELYSE TOWNSEND ARE 2 OF MY FAVORITE PEOPLE TO SKI WITH

3. 100% BIG MOUNTAIN FREESKIING. NO RAILS, NO CHEESE WEDGES

4. HIGH CALIBER SKIING AND FILMING

5. JAMEY PARKS NAILED IT. SOLID, SOLID SKIING