What is "Get Kinky?"

This is a website by and for those who want to protect the North Bowl Trees at Heavenly Resort in South Lake Tahoe. We are skiers and riders who love big powder and big trees, and Tahoe residents and visitors who want to protect the lake. We came up with the slogan "Get Kinky" to encourage Heavenly to build an angled or "kinked" lift to protect the North Bowl trees.

Read on for more info about how you can help save the North Bowl trees.



Heavenly wants to build a new chairlift through the heart of the majestic old-growth trees in North Bowl, home to some of the best tree-skiing in Tahoe and one of the few old-growth forests remaining in our area.

There is a better way. Heavenly can build an angled or "kinky" lift that would follow the path of the old North Bowl and Olympic chairs, and go around the North Bowl Trees.

This angled lift would get skiers from the bottom of North Bowl to the top of Olympic in 13 minutes, compared to the 26 minutes it now takes.

So building the angled lift would be a win-win for skiers and the environment: it would still get skiers to the top of Olympic quickly, and it would preserve the North Bowl trees.