where to find July Aug Sept turns in CA?

My wife and I lived in Tahoe for 30 years. Our kids were born and raised there. There has been a few bad snow years in a row there now, so you may have real problems in Oct, Nov. But east of Kirkwood is red lake. If you take Red Lake road and go on the dirt road towards Blue Lakes, about 5 miles in are patches that you can drive to and park at the bottom of. You do need a 4WD to travel on the dirt road, but I have skied all of these patches every month of the year. Some of the steeper longer patches you may have to walk a couple of minutes from the parking spot to get to snow, but others you can really drive right to. We skied every July 4th at this location for almost all of the 30 years we were there, and in heavy snow years the road was still snowed in a mile away from these areas. In the summer, the main patch usually has rails and a bump line with a jump at the bottom of the line on it. Hope this helps.

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THE PATCH!

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www.tahoedailytribune.com/article/20070608/SPORTS/106080102

Lassen update -

I found two snowfields on Lassen, each a couple hundred vertical, that were comfortably skiable this 4th of July weekend. They met the "trail or snow" conditions posted at the trailhead - I never ventured off trail, unless on snow. One was from the top; the other was along the switchback section perhaps 75% of the way up. I do not anticipate that anything in the park will be skiable during the next time the Lassen trail is opened this year.

For future reference, I would expect early July to have turns in any low snow year. A normal year would be good through August, and a big year would likely offer year round options.

I hiked around much of the park, and did not find any other obvious places that would have reasonable access and/or more than a couple of turns. Modest snowpatches on Brokeoff, Diller, and others were either too small, awkwardly clinging to a challenging to access steep, or both.