Best Week of Skiing Tahoe 2026

This past week Tahoe got over a hundred inches of snow in about five days. Storms like this happen less than once a year, and are a skiers dream.

Monday and Tuesday

Monday and Tuesday were stormy days. It was cold and it was windy. In the last 9 years of skiing in Tahoe I have only ever wished I had heated socks or hand warmers with me 2 or 3 times. Monday and Tuesday were both heated socks + hand warmers days.

Visibility was poor. The wind was vicious. The storm started Monday, so there wasn’t much snow yet during the day. By Tuesday we were getting beautiful powder runs. The storm kept lots of people away, which meant next to no lines at any of the lifts. It was a fantastic day.

Wednesday and Thursday

We skipped skiing these days. Large parts (if not all) of the mountains were closed due to heavy snowfall. Ski Patrol couldn’t keep up with avalanche mitigation and Mountain Operations were struggling to dig out lifts / buildings.

Friday

Friday, February 20 was the best day of skiing in Tahoe for 2026. By Friday we had over 100 inches of fresh snowfall. There was not a single cloud in the sky, and large parts of the mountain had not been touched in the last 2 days as they had been closed due to the storms. It wasn’t a weekend, so traffic was manageable (Northstar did fill their parking lots and have to start turning people away).

If you ski or snowboard, 100 Inches of fresh snow + blue skies + midweek skiing is legendary. Again, this kind of storm does not happen often in Tahoe, and I’m grateful I was in a position to make the most of it.