December has had NO SNOW to date, and we are running out of December days. This, combined with no snow  base. None. The ski areas are blowing snow the best they can, but it is totaling less than 6 inches of base. Squaw Valley is cringing with cancellations for what is usually the busiest two weeks of the year.

So what are people doing? Apparently they are ice skating. I met a few families at Serene Lake on Christmas Eve for some ice skating fun. Since ice skating conditions are rare in Tahoe in winter (very VERY cold temperatures with clear sustained weather) there typically isn't a...