Our family had an incredible time and enough snow for a lifetime! After we got in town, which was about four hours before the historic snow storm Orzelle hit, we saw constant heavy snow fall for 5 days and almost constant blizzard conditions with snow totals of seven plus feet. There was so much snow during our stay that we could not even see out of the family room/kitchen doors! We literally had a snow wall that we formed around the hot tub and made a small trail out of one of the doors on to the deck to get to the hot tub. It was crazy, but we loved every minute of it!
The home was so cozy, clean, the hot tub was fantastic, and we were able to make wonderful memories as a family. The only one issue that we had was that we could have used one of the two snowblowers to enable ourselves to leave the home at our will. We had to wait for the plow to come or we even had to shovel ourselves out one morning to get to Northstar to ski. We don't mind shoveling, but with the incredible amount of snow we received (which was in feet), one of the two snowblowers should have been working and definitely would of been a huge help! My husband tried for over an hour with the neighbor next door to get one of them running with no success. So, the gas we purchased before trying to get them started ended up not getting used.
Other than that inconvenience, we loved our accommodations and will always remember our stay in Truckee at Lodgepole.