Fresh snow at Palisades Tahoe in Olympic Valley, Calif., Oct. 15, 2025.

Northern California skiers and snowboarders have been dealt a bad hand of cards this fall. 

While snowsports enthusiasts across the country are already carving turns off the top of Central California’s Mammoth Mountain, enjoying powder days in the Wasatch and the Rockies, and even getting snow days in New England, unseasonably warm temperatures have left some of Tahoe’s resorts struggling to get even the beginner lifts running before Christmas.

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Palisades Tahoe, the area’s largest resort, continues to delay its opening day and will only run beginner magic carpets this weekend. Kirkwood Mountain plans to........

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