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Matt Bansak

← This Happened Yesterday… | Sugar Bowl, CA Conditions Report:

The previous day was good skiing, and it called for a return trip to Sugar Bowl for some more preseason turns at Sugar Bowl. Eric Bryant and I didn’t have high expectations for great snow, as it was much warmer, but thought it’d be great to get out anyways. After a quick skin to the Mt. Lincoln summit, we ran into friend Mark Kendrick and his doggy Milo. There were a couple glorious looking tracks that someone had already left in […]

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Matt Bansak | October 31, 2013
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Sugar Bowl, CA Conditions Report: 29” of Fresh Snow YESTERDAY | Photo Tour

It wasn’t the first snow we’ve seen in Tahoe this year, but it was the most skiable. The crew consisted of myself, Jamie Burge, Mark Kendrick, and Mark’s puggle Milo . We headed to Sugar Bowl the morning of October 29th after hearing that they had picked up 21-29”, while most other places around Tahoe had gotten a lot less than that. After a relatively short skin up Mt. Disney […]

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Matt Bansak | October 30, 2013
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Surfing Lake Tahoe, CA Sunday | Video & 18 Photos

Words, photos, & video by local photographer Matt Bansak. Check out his website here: MattBansak.com Lake wind advisories always make for a fun time if you’re ready for an adventure. When winter starts to roll in to Tahoe, it brings some significant winds along with it. You can get some decent wave buildup […]

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Matt Bansak | October 1, 2013
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Skiing in Tahoe on September 1st

words and photos by Matt Bansak. After hearing from a friend who had scoped the area the day before, September skiing was officially a ‘go’ for the Round Top patches, one of the few areas in Tahoe that holds snow at this time of year. Round Top is a 10,000 foot peak a little east of Kirkwood, down in Carson Pass, and is my favorite place for summer turns for its accessibility and beauty. My friend Keenan Hawkins, who is always up for an adventure, was onboard for an evening hike up. We had spent the first part of our day with some friends, hucking bikes off a ramp that Keenan had built into an undisclosed […]

Matt Bansak | September 6, 2013
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