FROG LAKE BACKCOUNTRY GUIDES
You book the huts, we provide the guides. We are excited to join you at beautiful Frog Lake backcountry huts, and show you the epic skiing all around it. NASTC is proud to have been a part of the Truckee Donner Land Trust’s buildout of these amazing huts since the start. At 7600 feet in one of the snowiest spots in the western hemisphere, this European-styled backcountry hut adventure near Castle Peak (just north of Donner Summit) offers some of the very best skiing right out your door, including steep chutes, gentle glades, and open bowls.
The sleek, clean, modern huts (finished Fall 2021) have hot & cold water, flush toilets, gas heat, electricity, huge windows, and common space. You’ll have a shared bunk room, and enjoy meals cooked in the commercial grade kitchen by your guide in the Main House, a 100 year old stone house named Eschenbach Backcountry House.
There are rooms for various group sizes. Your room in one of the huts has 2-4 bunk beds and a shared toilet. There is space for your clothes and a shared common area. Different sized cabins can accommodate up to 8 skiers or riders.
We keep our skier to guide ratio at 4 to 1.
It takes about half a day to ski tour into Frog Lake from our meeting place. During your stay you’ll enjoy being guided up epic descents and great tours right out your hut door! You’ll relax after with good company, delicious food and hold or cold bevies! We can’t wait to show you this unbelievable Alps-like hut experience in Truckee.
The Land Trust and its partners – The Nature Conservancy, the Trust for Public Land and Northern Sierra Partnership – acquired Frog Lake as part of a larger 3,000-acre conservation effort in 2020. Before that, the property was closed to the public for nearly a century.
PRICE: $550 per day for one skier + $100 per day each additional skier up to 4 skiers per guide. Min. trip length is 2 nights.
Breakfasts and dinners will be made together in commercial grade kitchen, groups bring all their own food into Frog Lake.
Professional chef and planned menu available with enough notice, ask about pricing.
LEVEL: advanced resort skiing / very good fitness for long touring days / some backcountry prior experience
IF YOU NEED TO PRACTICE consider doing an INTRO TO BACKCOUNTRY SKIING course or private lesson with us.
