Northstar California will host the 2016 Burton Mountain Festival on-snow demo tour Friday, Jan. 8 – Sunday, Jan. 10. The most anticipated traveling snowboard demo series of the year offers a variety of on and off-snow events, activities, displays, demos and more.

Palisades Tahoe held a grand reopening ribbon-cutting ceremony for the recently upgraded Siberia Express six-passenger chairlift on Dec. 18th, welcoming skiers and snowboarders as they loaded the new, high tech, state-of-the-art chairlift.

Following the recent series of snowstorms, which left 3.5 feet of fresh powder on the slopes, Palisades Tahoe Alpine Meadows has kicked into high gear and has announced opening of some of its most iconic and sought after terrain in the coming days.

Let the fun begin! Ample early season snowfall has put ski season in to high gear, and Palisades Tahoe | Alpine Meadows, two of Tahoe's top mountains have announced an early opening scheduled for this week, with Alpine opening on Thursday, Nov. 12th and Palisades Tahoe on Saturday, November 14th. The announcement brings the current total resort open for the coming weekend to six, including Palisades Tahoe, Alpine Meadows, Northstar, Heavenly, Mt. Rose, and Boreal Mountain.

Two recent early-season storms, combined with ideal cold temperatures and extensive snowmaking efforts have prompted officials at Heavenly Mountain Resort and Northstar California resort to give the green light to open for the season a week early, on Saturday, November 14th.