Slide Lodge Burn April 18
posted: Friday, April 3rd 2009
Slide Lodge is going up in smoke - Week of April 13th
Big Burn - Saturday Afternoon April 18th at 2:00pm.
Sierra Fire Protection District will be conducting live fire exercises in the Slide Lodge beginning April 13th and continue throughout the week. The BIG BURN will be on Saturday April 18th at approximately 2:00pm when the entire building is predicted to be "fully involved" within about 10 minutes after ignition. Due to the size of the building and large timbers, there will likely be heavy fire conditions for approximately 45-60 minutes. According to the Sierra Fire Protection District, “It should be impressive. Flame heights of 60 feet are expected and a column of smoke that will be visible from all of Reno to Carson City.” Spectators are welcome outside of the designated burn area. Please abide by all instructions from fire crews and Mt. Rose staff.
All events are subject to change without notice due to weather or possible unforeseen issues. All Updates or changes will be posted at skirose.com.
On a nostalgic note, we are always seeking historic photos for our archives. In the case of the Slide Lodge, images of the building in any of its many forms are welcome. The Slide base lodge had at least 3 additions and our records are a bit thin of the building before its current state. If you have images, please either e-mail copies to mp@skirose.com, or lend us the originals and we’ll have copies made.
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This will definitely be visible to most people who live in Reno, Washoe Valley, and Carson City since the Slide Lodge overlooks all three valleys. I will have a great view of the fire since I am eight miles ENE of the lodge with a direct view. It will be sad though to see the lodge go; one of the last remnants of Reno Ski Bowl from the 1950s. However the lodge is antiquated, a maze of hallways due to the additions added over the years, not ADA compliant, and not utilizing its available views of the valleys.
The new slide lodge is expected to be completed in early 2010.
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Mt. Rose to Burn Slide Lodge
Started by Phoenix, Apr 08 2009 09:07 AM
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Posted 08 April 2009 - 09:20 AM
A picture of the Slide Lodge as it is today as seen from the loading area for Blazing Zephyr 6
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Demolition of the Slide Lodge. This view is looking north from the cafeteria to the front entrance.
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The Sierra Fire Protection District preparing the building for the "Big Burn" that will occur on Saturday, April 18.
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Demolition of the Slide Lodge. This view is looking north from the cafeteria to the front entrance.
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The Sierra Fire Protection District preparing the building for the "Big Burn" that will occur on Saturday, April 18.
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This post has been edited by Phoenix: 08 April 2009 - 09:28 AM
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Posted 08 April 2009 - 09:48 AM
Here is the lodge that will most likely occupy this space: http://www.bsaarchitects.com/portfolio/rec...odge/index.html
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Posted 08 April 2009 - 12:18 PM
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Here is the lodge that will most likely occupy this space: http://www.bsaarchit...odge/index.html
looks really beautiful.
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Posted 08 April 2009 - 01:47 PM
Andoman, on Apr 8 2009, 01:10 PM, said:
looks like a cheap cafeteria to me, no offense.
No, it's not cheap. Mt. Rose has been waiting for several years to get permission from Washoe County (who still owns the land on which the lodge sits) to get permission to build. For a small resort, Mt. Rose has made improvements that are top notch.
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Posted 08 April 2009 - 01:55 PM
Wow, thanks for the info on the lodge Cameron.
Other improvements include replacing the Ponderosa quad and Galena triple and combining both into one detachable lift (see following article).
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Mt. Rose resort schedules improvements
By Jeff DeLong
jdelong@rgj.com
An aging lodge will soon be razed and other improvements are now on government books for Reno’s backyard ski resort.
It’s all part of a strategy to make the entire mountain at Mt. Rose-Ski Tahoe more accessible to skiers and snowboarders and to do so earlier each season.
“This is us taking it to the next step,” said Mike Pierce, marketing director at the ski resort.
Coming improvements follow the 2004 opening of the Chutes, expert north-facing terrain towering over the Mount Rose Highway. That same year the resort made $3.5 million in other improvements, opening the high-speed Blazing Zephyr Six, a detachable lift serving the eastern Slide area that carries up to six people at a time, and the Chuter a four-person chair serving the Chutes.
The next major change is coming soon. At the end of this season, Mt. Rose will demolish its old Slide Lodge, making way for construction of a larger lodge farther to the east, with work on that project likely to commence the summer of 2010, Pierce said.
Other coming changes are outlined in an environmental assessment approved Feb. 3 by Ed Monnig, supervisor of Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest.
Chief among them is the proposed removal of two fixed-grip lifts serving beginner terrain on the Mt. Rose side of the resort, the Ponderosa and Galena.
That project, which Pierce said is probably still several years away, would replace the two lifts with the resort’s third high-speed detachable lift. That lift could terminate 300 feet farther up the mountain, on Forest Service land, than where the Galena lift currently stops.
“It’s an area where we recognize we can improve,” Pierce said. “It’s very, very good beginner terrain, and the speed (of the new lift) would let people get more runs in while learning.”
One of those beginner skiers hitting the slopes Friday was John Mallon of Modesto, Calif. His brother and friend, better skiers, were on more advanced runs but for Mallon, the bunny hill offered sufficient challenge.
To him, the idea of a single faster lift replacing the two existing ones sounds like a good one.
“It does take you a long time to get up there,” said Mallon, 51.
Reno snowboarder Jennifer Lee, who hits the slopes every day off work during the winter, said she probably wouldn’t use the new beginner lift but that the upgrade sounds like a good idea.
So does a new lodge on the Slide side.
“That’s good by me. They need a little improvement there,” said Lee, 18.
“The lodge over there is old and tired,” agreed skier Kathleen Rodman, 59, of Incline Village. “That will make it more fun for people to hang out on that side and not just at the main lodge.”
It will also, Rodman predicts, spread skiers and snowboarders out more over the entire mountain.
That’s another goal of other changes proposed in the resort’s new environmental assessment. Improvements, the document says, “will allow the two portions of the resort to operate as one cohesive ski area.”
Other changes, some to occur this summer, will involve blasting and “spot grading” to remove rocks and re-contour irregularities — or high and low spots — on several runs on the Slide side.
Targeted runs include the Slide Bowl, Sunrise Bowl, Lower Bruce’s Trail, Washoe Zephyr Trail and the Outlaw Trail. Additional snowmaking would be installed at the Sunrise Bowl.
The Slide side upgrades are designed to allow that side of the mountain to open earlier in the season. Irregular and rocky terrain often keeps the Slide side short of necessary snow and delays opening for about a month after the Mount Rose side opens for business, the report said.
“With less natural snow in the early season, we can get that area open earlier for skiing,” Pierce said. “It won’t take nearly as much natural snow.”
A Mt. Rose skier of “many years,” 67-year-old George Galante of Incline Village said he’ll be a little sad to see the old Slide lodge go away but that planned improvements are a good thing in general.
He’s big on Mt. Rose.
“It still has a very unique hometown flavor,” Galante said. “It’s a wonderful place.”
Additional Facts
Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe
o The Mt. Rose side consists of 510 acres of mostly private land on the north side of Slide Mountain.
o The Slide side is on the eastern flanks of Slide Mountain, and the Chutes are on a steep northern slope. The U.S. Forest Service owns the 544 acres, leasing the terrain to the resort.
o The resort’s lift network consists of two high-speed detachable six-person lifts; two fixed-grip quad chairs; two-fixed grip triple chairs and two surface lifts.
o Total lift capacity is 12,820 skiers per hour.
o Terrain distribution is about 25 percent beginner, 39 percent intermediate and 36 percent advanced.
o Snowmaking currently exists on about 30 percent of the private land and .01 percent on the Slide side.
Source: U.S. Forest Service environmental assessment.
Other improvements include replacing the Ponderosa quad and Galena triple and combining both into one detachable lift (see following article).
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Mt. Rose resort schedules improvements
By Jeff DeLong
jdelong@rgj.com
An aging lodge will soon be razed and other improvements are now on government books for Reno’s backyard ski resort.
It’s all part of a strategy to make the entire mountain at Mt. Rose-Ski Tahoe more accessible to skiers and snowboarders and to do so earlier each season.
“This is us taking it to the next step,” said Mike Pierce, marketing director at the ski resort.
Coming improvements follow the 2004 opening of the Chutes, expert north-facing terrain towering over the Mount Rose Highway. That same year the resort made $3.5 million in other improvements, opening the high-speed Blazing Zephyr Six, a detachable lift serving the eastern Slide area that carries up to six people at a time, and the Chuter a four-person chair serving the Chutes.
The next major change is coming soon. At the end of this season, Mt. Rose will demolish its old Slide Lodge, making way for construction of a larger lodge farther to the east, with work on that project likely to commence the summer of 2010, Pierce said.
Other coming changes are outlined in an environmental assessment approved Feb. 3 by Ed Monnig, supervisor of Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest.
Chief among them is the proposed removal of two fixed-grip lifts serving beginner terrain on the Mt. Rose side of the resort, the Ponderosa and Galena.
That project, which Pierce said is probably still several years away, would replace the two lifts with the resort’s third high-speed detachable lift. That lift could terminate 300 feet farther up the mountain, on Forest Service land, than where the Galena lift currently stops.
“It’s an area where we recognize we can improve,” Pierce said. “It’s very, very good beginner terrain, and the speed (of the new lift) would let people get more runs in while learning.”
One of those beginner skiers hitting the slopes Friday was John Mallon of Modesto, Calif. His brother and friend, better skiers, were on more advanced runs but for Mallon, the bunny hill offered sufficient challenge.
To him, the idea of a single faster lift replacing the two existing ones sounds like a good one.
“It does take you a long time to get up there,” said Mallon, 51.
Reno snowboarder Jennifer Lee, who hits the slopes every day off work during the winter, said she probably wouldn’t use the new beginner lift but that the upgrade sounds like a good idea.
So does a new lodge on the Slide side.
“That’s good by me. They need a little improvement there,” said Lee, 18.
“The lodge over there is old and tired,” agreed skier Kathleen Rodman, 59, of Incline Village. “That will make it more fun for people to hang out on that side and not just at the main lodge.”
It will also, Rodman predicts, spread skiers and snowboarders out more over the entire mountain.
That’s another goal of other changes proposed in the resort’s new environmental assessment. Improvements, the document says, “will allow the two portions of the resort to operate as one cohesive ski area.”
Other changes, some to occur this summer, will involve blasting and “spot grading” to remove rocks and re-contour irregularities — or high and low spots — on several runs on the Slide side.
Targeted runs include the Slide Bowl, Sunrise Bowl, Lower Bruce’s Trail, Washoe Zephyr Trail and the Outlaw Trail. Additional snowmaking would be installed at the Sunrise Bowl.
The Slide side upgrades are designed to allow that side of the mountain to open earlier in the season. Irregular and rocky terrain often keeps the Slide side short of necessary snow and delays opening for about a month after the Mount Rose side opens for business, the report said.
“With less natural snow in the early season, we can get that area open earlier for skiing,” Pierce said. “It won’t take nearly as much natural snow.”
A Mt. Rose skier of “many years,” 67-year-old George Galante of Incline Village said he’ll be a little sad to see the old Slide lodge go away but that planned improvements are a good thing in general.
He’s big on Mt. Rose.
“It still has a very unique hometown flavor,” Galante said. “It’s a wonderful place.”
Additional Facts
Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe
o The Mt. Rose side consists of 510 acres of mostly private land on the north side of Slide Mountain.
o The Slide side is on the eastern flanks of Slide Mountain, and the Chutes are on a steep northern slope. The U.S. Forest Service owns the 544 acres, leasing the terrain to the resort.
o The resort’s lift network consists of two high-speed detachable six-person lifts; two fixed-grip quad chairs; two-fixed grip triple chairs and two surface lifts.
o Total lift capacity is 12,820 skiers per hour.
o Terrain distribution is about 25 percent beginner, 39 percent intermediate and 36 percent advanced.
o Snowmaking currently exists on about 30 percent of the private land and .01 percent on the Slide side.
Source: U.S. Forest Service environmental assessment.
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Posted 08 April 2009 - 03:05 PM
Phoenix, on Apr 8 2009, 05:47 PM, said:
No, it's not cheap. Mt. Rose has been waiting for several years to get permission from Washoe County (who still owns the land on which the lodge sits) to get permission to build. For a small resort, Mt. Rose has made improvements that are top notch.
cheap is a relative term, like I said no offense. I'm sure it's an improvement and I give props to any resort expanding in this climate. It just doesn't look like much from the conceptual drawing, I'd have to see the floor plan to know for sure, it just kind of reminds me of a prefab building.
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Posted 08 April 2009 - 04:18 PM
Andoman, on Apr 8 2009, 03:05 PM, said:
cheap is a relative term, like I said no offense. I'm sure it's an improvement and I give props to any resort expanding in this climate. It just doesn't look like much from the conceptual drawing, I'd have to see the floor plan to know for sure, it just kind of reminds me of a prefab building.
Andoman, I do have to agree with you that; I need to wait for the final product as well. The building seems rather retro in some respects (meaning 40s and 50s...think the lodge used at Mt. Rushmore in the movie North By Northwest). The county tied their hands up for years because the parking lot and the site of the lodge is considered a "county park." For years, the county did not want the lodge upgraded because they thought Mt. Rose was going to put in condos and Washoe County officials did not want that to happen.
The county wanted a multi-use building for year-round use because of the activities that take place up there, especially the hanggliding that takes place from the access road of the Slide Lodge to the landing area in Washoe Valley 3000 feet.
With all the radio antennas at the top, you think Mt. Rose could put some wind turbines at the top of Slide Mountain to generate electricity without people complaining about them being an eyesore or view destroyer. With the high winds that occur frequently at the top, this could be a great way for them to cut energy expenses, or at least provide power to the upper terminals of Zephyr, Northwest, and the future lodge that Mt. Rose would like to build at the top of Slide someday.
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Posted 08 April 2009 - 04:44 PM
Phoenix, on Apr 8 2009, 08:18 PM, said:
Andoman, I do have to agree with you that; I need to wait for the final product as well. The building seems rather retro in some respects (meaning 40s and 50s...think the lodge used at Mt. Rushmore in the movie North By Northwest). The county tied their hands up for years because the parking lot and the site of the lodge is considered a "county park." For years, the county did not want the lodge upgraded because they thought Mt. Rose was going to put in condos and Washoe County officials did not want that to happen.
The county wanted a multi-use building for year-round use because of the activities that take place up there, especially the hanggliding that takes place from the access road of the Slide Lodge to the landing area in Washoe Valley 3000 feet.
With all the radio antennas at the top, you think Mt. Rose could put some wind turbines at the top of Slide Mountain to generate electricity without people complaining about them being an eyesore or view destroyer. With the high winds that occur frequently at the top, this could be a great way for them to cut energy expenses, or at least provide power to the upper terminals of Zephyr, Northwest, and the future lodge that Mt. Rose would like to build at the top of Slide someday.
The county wanted a multi-use building for year-round use because of the activities that take place up there, especially the hanggliding that takes place from the access road of the Slide Lodge to the landing area in Washoe Valley 3000 feet.
With all the radio antennas at the top, you think Mt. Rose could put some wind turbines at the top of Slide Mountain to generate electricity without people complaining about them being an eyesore or view destroyer. With the high winds that occur frequently at the top, this could be a great way for them to cut energy expenses, or at least provide power to the upper terminals of Zephyr, Northwest, and the future lodge that Mt. Rose would like to build at the top of Slide someday.
My scout leader when I was growing up used to install wind turbines in unaccessible areas for cell / repeater towers. He showed us a lot of the projects the did (this is in the early 90's when cell phones where getting a foot hold) but the turbines they installed could usually exceed the power requirements due to the wind conditions on mountain ridges (he did a majority of this work in the appalachian mountains). I talked to him about this a while back (I helped him with some foundation design) and he said they could install vertical turbines now just on the back side of the ridges to make them less intrusive than the monster three bladers everyone is installing now. You can even use the building itself to channel the wind to turbines on the back side of the lodge, so I would think there is multiple possibilities for a lodge on the ridge.
I'm not sure about the power requirements for the upper terminal on the lifts but you could install a dc system to power a small or even moderate size lodge with minimal effort (I'd have to ask my friend about the strain of a kitchen). The system would just charge batteries during off hours and use the stored energy to supplement any short comings during the day. My scout leader's house was powered that way in michigan, and we don't have 10% the constant wind energy you guys have on the mountain ridges. His charged the system during the day since him and his wife both worked and supplemented the power during the night during TV time.
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Posted 15 April 2009 - 08:45 PM
Slide Lodge Burn Cancelled
posted: Tuesday, April 14th 2009
Fire Officials have expressed that letting the Slide Lodge ignite to a full burn is too hazardous, and therefore have cancelled the previously scheduled event. With the potential size of the crowd coupled with a problem of available resources, the Sierra Fire Protection District has pulled the plug on letting the Slide Lodge go up in flames.
Mt. Rose –Ski Tahoe will now proceed with more traditional demolition plans slated to begin this Saturday April 18th.
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Actually, I am happy that the burn has been cancelled. The weather has been unsettled the last few days and if the fire happened to blow east, it would be difficult to stop and head down toward the valley below.
posted: Tuesday, April 14th 2009
Fire Officials have expressed that letting the Slide Lodge ignite to a full burn is too hazardous, and therefore have cancelled the previously scheduled event. With the potential size of the crowd coupled with a problem of available resources, the Sierra Fire Protection District has pulled the plug on letting the Slide Lodge go up in flames.
Mt. Rose –Ski Tahoe will now proceed with more traditional demolition plans slated to begin this Saturday April 18th.
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Actually, I am happy that the burn has been cancelled. The weather has been unsettled the last few days and if the fire happened to blow east, it would be difficult to stop and head down toward the valley below.
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