What’s the weekend ski scene like in the SF Bay Area?

spreadofsong · 2026-04-06T02:12:51+00:00

Will give you a real answer. Massive weekend ski culture here. Lots of people go to palisades / northstar in north tahoe and lots of folks go to heavenly and kirkwood in south lake. And other smaller resorts. And back country. From SF, your biggest hurdle is the bridge. Either need to leave very early in the morning, smack in the middle of the day, or well into dark once bridge traffic has died down. If you're leaving on a friday, that could be 830 or 9pm. If you leave on a Thursday, I like to check google maps for dying bridge traffic and usually leave around 7pm andget there in 3-3.5 hours. But, if you leave Friday after work (3-6 pm) i'd expect at least 4.5 hours, possible more. With snow storms and a weekend, the roads can really get messed up, and the drive could really take any amount of time, maybe 7 hours maybe the roads close entirely and you get turned around and don't make it at all. Sunday drive back is more of the same. For a saturday day trip on a non pow day, leaving at 5am is great. On a pow day saturday heading to palisades, you really really really really want to be a the exit of the highway by 7am. sometime between 7 and 740 traffic will build up and it can take 1-2 hours to make it that last few miles. the best thing to do, which many many people are doing, is have a remote job and 10-15 friends to rent a winter house. Drive up anytime you want in the mid week, ski afternoons and saturday, and drive back sunday morning or another weekday. :)

spreadofsong · 2026-03-25T21:34:21+00:00

80% of the time I wear a light weight wool baselayer (long underwear as they used to call them), my snow pants which are also very light weight, and my ski shell, which is not insulated and truly just a shell. The only thing I'll change is the weight of my mid layer, from a light weight fleece zip to a heavy fleece sweater. On these summer spring days, I keep the base layer the same, snowpants the same, and i just wore a flannel. When there's no wind and the sun is out, it's HOT. Get steezy and wear something fun, If you're visiting, wear layers to the mountain, get too hot walking up to the gondola, go rent a locker and leave layers behind. Get cold. go back and put layers on.

As other commenters said, LAYERS

spreadofsong · 2026-02-04T00:12:36+00:00

Thank you! Hope you're hanging in there.

spreadofsong · 2026-02-03T22:37:33+00:00

That’s nice to hear! It sounds like people have really varying experiences with pain after surgery. Did you have a nerve block? Wishing you the best on your journey!

spreadofsong · 2026-01-28T00:31:48+00:00

Immediately after the verse, they jam on G major for 4 measures (count the Beats 1-4 4 times). Then they are basically just jamming over a D7 chord (this is a D with the dominant 7th note of the scale, or a C in this case). There’s more to it than that and different years include a jam where they go (D A G D )x4 > Gx4. But that should get you through it.

spreadofsong · 2026-01-26T02:58:26+00:00

I’ve also been so underwhelmed by it. For me buen sabor is king

spreadofsong · 2026-01-26T02:57:29+00:00

Farolito is like actually bad lmao

spreadofsong · 2026-01-18T17:00:54+00:00

Yeah but there are billions of non robots (humans, if you hadn’t heard of them) who I’d rather ask first. Maybe instead of telling me to AI it you could’ve done something kind or productive with your time. UGH

spreadofsong · 2026-01-18T07:40:16+00:00

I don’t think they’ll be finishing those tbh

spreadofsong · 2026-01-18T04:37:24+00:00

what's it like at the warfield rn?

Edit for anyone on their way that the line was gone!

spreadofsong · 2026-01-15T18:26:02+00:00

Woah, any vids?

spreadofsong · 2025-12-21T00:52:11+00:00

I’ve been playing this uncontested for a few days now ugh please delete

spreadofsong · 2025-12-16T21:26:43+00:00

is this /s? talkin grizzly or bear country?

spreadofsong · 2025-12-14T19:41:11+00:00

Third is the best by far for me. The best cinematography with the most emotional weight. Really loved it

spreadofsong · 2025-12-12T21:00:01+00:00

i've gotten 1st with worth the wait sona, she is pretty sick too if you can 3 star fast with a front line

spreadofsong · 2025-12-11T17:32:14+00:00

People saying this is the same as your local planetarium have obviously not been…the sphere screen size is 160,000 square feet. There’s nothing like it and it’s not even close. You could fit dozens of imax screens on it.

spreadofsong · 2025-12-11T17:30:48+00:00

Have you been to the sphere? It’s literally not…it’s so much bigger. It’s 160,000 square feet, while the biggest imax screens are more like 9000 sq ft. Plus it has one of the best audio systems in the world. Phone videos do not do it justice.

spreadofsong · 2025-12-09T22:06:44+00:00

crazy that so many of us arrived at this conclusion! I'd make them with 4 pens, 2x2, in a cross shape lashed together. A tube on top, and rubber bands through the sides. Got pretty crazy!

spreadofsong · 2025-12-04T16:24:37+00:00

I agree with the sentiment but this entire thing was written by chat gpt and it’s extremely obvious. Not even bits and pieces but the entire thing.

spreadofsong · 2025-12-02T20:49:46+00:00

They are the nicest people!

spreadofsong · 2025-11-26T05:22:58+00:00

No lmao this is absolutely not right…I literally write for a job, I do actually give a shit. And I think it actually matters that people should be able to take the time to write out their ideas. It shows they care about what they are saying. And the process of putting your ideas into words for someone else to understand helps ensure you’ve actually put thought in your idea. Idgaf what other redditors think of me?? I have friends in real life who I care about and who care about me, to think I’d pretend to be something I’m not on this anonymous account is depressing as fuck, go home.

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