Alpine Meadows

What a great weekend of soft powder at Alpine after picking up 4 feet on Friday.  Alpine has now received 532 inches on the season, 118% of the annual snowfall average as of February 26th.  That’s not the end as we have many more storms on the horizon, the first of which will arrive Tuesday night.  [...]

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Mother nature added tons of sunshine and blue sky to this weekend’s powder conditions for the finals of Mountain Hardwear’s Big Mountain Telemark Festival. Freeheelers tackled The Buttress, dropping cliffs, straight-lining shoots and making perfect tele-turns. One may have made a call to his mother mid-line (GNAR points) and another rocked a helmet, boxer shorts [...]

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The best freeheel skiers from around the country threw down in Alpine Meadows’ Keyhole on some of the year’s best powder Saturday. Competitors dropped big cliffs, threw a couple flips, and one guy was even skiing with wooden sticks for polls and a raccoon tail trailing behind his helmet. Keep an eye on the Tough [...]

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Alpine picked up 20 inches as of 6 a.m. this morning in the past 24 hours, and the heaviest part of the storm is still to come today.  Alpine Meadows has now broken the 500 inch mark on the season at the summit and it’s only February. As the cold front moves through today we will [...]

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Alpine has already picked up 484 inches on top which is around 108% of the annual snowfall average.   The storm last week was the 3rd largest 4 day storm total in Alpine’s recorded history.  That was on top of the snowiest December on record, and we aren’t done yet. We have another cold storm beginning [...]

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Alpine picked up an incredible 119 inches (10 ft.) in total over the past week, with the final 2 feet falling Friday into Saturday.  That is not the end of the snow as we have another storm headed our way starting on Thursday. The sun came back out on Sunday giving a much needed break from [...]

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