Homewood Quail Face: A Run Down Tahoe's Most Astonishing In-Bounds Run

[@ryno7437]

Got it in 2013 on a huge powder weekday. No lines and untracked powder on pretty much that entire face. One of the most memorable experiences of my ski career.

[@thelamma6670]

You should review Sun Peaks

[@falegria]

I skied it with fresh pow back in 2003. It was great!

[@markmassoglia]

I skied in in 2005, it was the most challenging run I did until I skied Kirkwood. Love Homewood though. Lake Tahoe views are better than another resort in the area hands down and it's a throwback hill. It's not developed and has mostly fixed grip chairs. It's certainly worth a visit.

[@topherdean1024]

God, we skied Homewood on March 9th 2023 and it was unbelievable. The Quail face was closed, unfortunately, but just to let you know, we got to the ski area at 9:00 and there was no one there, like a dozen cars in the parking lot. We lapped the face 5 times and literally couldn't see where I was skiing it was so deep. My cousin said all he could see was a ball of snow flying down the mountain. Then we hit Rainbow Ridge and I got fresh lines on every run, face shots on every turn and I don't mean some little dust in your face, I mean like someone hit you with a snow blower. Coming back to the lodge at the end of the day, the face was finally all tracked out, so I traversed over to the trees on skier's right and what?! Totally fresh pow! I mean, right in front of the base lodge, bottomless untract powder all the way down the face at the end of the day? I'm a believer. My friend works at Palisades and he stoked me with free passes. We waited in line for two hours and got first chair on Red Dog and it was unbelievable, deepest powder I've ever skied, freaked me out because I couldn't breath, but after 3 runs, that mountain was done. So you don't have to take a deep breath before you drop in at Homewood, like you do off some KT runs, but man, fresh powder all day? I'm sold.

[@steveslaughter9991]

I really like the music

[@SolaceEasy]

My second day on snowboard was here in about a foot and a half of new snow. I switched to skis for the afternoon. Nice little hill. It was dumping snow the day I got there and you could just barely see the Lake at the very bottom. I went over to Quail on snowboard for my last run of the morning. Went over there again on skis. Worthy.

[@susieasado6675]

Home wood is so beautiful. Thank you for making this video.

[@PeakRankings]

Our pleasure!

[@charlieharper4975]

Homewood as the best views of Tahoe of any resort up there. The skiing is mostly intermediate.

[@carsonbacci6275]

Funny cause I’ve only ever hiked to this in the summer and never seen it in the winter

[@calibomber209]

i skied homewood once. it was a great little resort. and shell gas at the time was doing a buy one get one free lift tix. 58$ at the time. great snow. cool north lake tahoe view.

[@benharkey2407]

Great vid! You should do a run down the Mt. Rose chutes.

[@PeakRankings]

Thank you! We're planning on it later this season!

[@peekymonget98]

nice

[@arjunski]

Few questions for ya! 1.) How hard would you say this run is compared to the more challenging runs at Heavenly, Kirkwood, and Northstar such as Mott Canyon, The Wall, etc... 2.) Do you remember how long the hike in and the hike out took? Thanks a lot! Loving this channel!

[@PeakRankings]

Thank you, and thanks for watching! Happy to answer your questions: 1. This run was certainly an expert pitch, and it's tougher than anything Northstar has to offer. But Heavenly's Mott/Killebrew Canyons and several Kirkwood areas contain steeper, more technical terrain. 2. The hike was about 5 minutes there and 15 minutes out (although if you cut over at the right time, you can cut the hike-out down to maybe 10 minutes).

[@arjunski]

@@PeakRankings Thank you so much for answering! I definitely want to make a trip out just to ski this next year after COVID clears up!

[@thomassullivan1207]

@@arjunski Or you could just do it now. Don't let COVID stop you.

[@SkiCounseler]

Beautiful run. Would love to ski it with about 12" of fresh and the sun shining on the lake. Heaven!

[@djc7039]

Quote of the day "its a little crusty but still some Powder" ........... yeah powder

[@topherdean1024]

😂 Ya he's not a whiner. Can't imagine how stoked he gets when there's 3 feet of fresh.

[@maverick114e9]

Its sad that this ski area is struggling to survive, development plans are falling through and they are just not getting enough business

[@topherdean1024]

They're going private. Next year, 2024, you'll have to be a member to ski there, but you know what? I can't even imagine, you could get fresh lines for days after a storm, totally worth membership.