The latest Alpine Meadows wear is at Estelle Sports in the main lodge, along with all the other technical wear and daily necessities you might need for a great day on the mountain, stop by and check it out!

Estelle Sports is open daily during the season from 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. in the Alpine Meadows Base Lodge – 530.581.8323

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This season has been a great one for skiing and riding at Alpine Meadows. We had awesome weather, perfect snow, and fun events. Some of you wrote in to tell us about your favorite moment spent at Alpine Meadows. Each month we have picked the I A.M. Moments that show the best of the Alpine Meadows experience. Now it’s up to you to pick the best moment of the season.

Please check out the winning I A.M. Moments, read the stories, look at the photos or watch the videos, then vote for your favorite. The video above does not contain the complete entries so check the links below to get the whole story. The winner will get an Alpine Meadows 2010/2011 Midweek + Sunday season pass for the 2010/2011 season.

I A.M. Wild
Andrew Thomas

I A.M. A Skiing Princess
Amy Berry

I A.M. A Proud Father
Josh Masur

I A.M. Shredding with my family
Jerry Crute

I A.M. Remembering Summit
Avis Jolly

I A.M. Adaptive
Ben Belizzi

This time last year Alpine announced a screaming deal on season passes. Always fans of the mountain, we had only ever managed spring passes so we decided to step up to the plate and commit to a season pass. All summer and fall we dreamed of teaching our little girl how to love to ski. We didn’t expect much in the way of actually skiing, we just wanted her to get familiar with the sport and learn to love being on the mountain. We started slowly, spending more time in the kids’ zone and eating snow at the bottom of the magic carpet than actually hitting the slopes. Eventually we made our way to the chairlift so she could be like the “big kids” at the resort. The inner speed demon came alive and suddenly we had the best bargaining chip known to parentkind- be good or you can’’t ride the chairlift. We still stopped often to eat snow and practice taking our skis on and off. She learned to fall on her hips and to scream “wipe-out” at the top of her lungs whenever her ski tips didn’t quite follow the path originally intended. We learned to hit the lunch room and the kid zone early to keep the crankies and whinies at bay. We hoped along the way she was learning to ski and learning to love the mountain.

Sunday was an epic spring skiing day- the sky as blue as sapphires, the sun as warm as summer. Grace and I headed to the resort around nine, after a quick breakfast and a wardrobe discussion. She insisted on bringing her new pink tutu to the mountain. I knew this wasn’t a fight worth fighting or that I could ever win. We snagged a great parking spot and proceeded to skip together through the lot and up to the lodge towards our locker. Making our way up the ramp, Grace accepted compliments on her attire like a pro golfer walking to the next tee box. We changed into our ski gear in the locker room, Grace insisting that her tutu go on over her ski suit and not under. We stopped at the snack bar to fuel up with a bagel and the ladies inside giggled at the sight of Grace. “You always wonder how people get the way they are,” said one of the women. “Now I know- it happens now, it happens at this age.” Grace thanked her for the bagel and we headed up to slopes.

Making our way to the subway chair, people all over the mountain started cheering for the little skiing princess. Chairlift riders hollered down, skiers stopped to take pictures with their phones, and chairlift operators slapped her high fives for having great style. She was a rockstar- an Alpine Meadows rockstar. And then she started down the slopes, just like she did so many other times this season, but today she skied with a focus we hadn’t seen before. She turned to go around trees, she snow-plowed when things got a little too fast, and she skied fast and straight until her tutu flew in the air all around her.

On this great spring day, we realized that Alpine Meadows had given us an amazing gift. The mountain gave our little girl the love of skiing. The sun was shining bright on Sunday, but nothing shined brighter than Gracie-cakes skiing in her tutu.

Submitted By: Amy

Pretty good for a 50 year old, Wow…I felt like a kid.

Thanks, David

Submitted By: Bryn

Enjoying the beautiful scenery on a warm spring day.
Submitted By: Maria

Moment? Everyday on the slopes becomes a special moment! And that adds up to over 20 plus years of Alpine Meadows giving me plenty of “Great Moments” on the mountain!!!
Submitted By: Bob

Back on Presidents weekend I was skiing with my 10 year old (by the way, I’m married with 3 boys ages 13, 10 and 8). Anyway, I was trailing Nikolas as he barreled down Rock Garden onto Loop Road, hit the jumps and was headed towards Hot Wheels Gully. I passed him right before the trail crossing leading into the gully. I stopped and waited by the trees at the entrance and saw Nik just about to come across the trail. At the same time the biggest human being I have ever seen was racing down the trail Nik was just about to cross. The collision I witnessed was one of the worst things I have ever seen. In a split second a thousand things rushed through my brain. I was very scared Nik was seriously hurt. I kicked my skis off and rushed over to him…. There was blood all over the snow next to him. I took him into my arms he looked at me with a terrified look and asked me, ““am I ok, Dad?”” I’’ll be honest; at that moment I had no idea. I was thinking of the worst possible things, I was real scared. Turns out the blood was from the guy who ran into Nik (somebody said he was an ex San Francisco 49er), his face had connected with Nikolas’s helmet (yeah, thank god the kid wears a helmet!).

The ski patrol was there in seconds, and Nik got a ride down the mountain in the stretcher. The folks at the first aid station were amazing and took real good care of Nik. I must thank all those amazing people once again. The thank you card was not enough! We were really lucky that he walked away from the collision with a broken thumb, cut on the face, a and some aches and pains. I wasn’t sure Nik would ever want to ski again….

Ok, I know what you’re saying “where’s the good stuff?” Here it is!

We came up to Truckee Sunday April 4th (we have a house there) Alpine Club passes loaded up for the kids spring passes for my wife and myself – ready to have the spring break of our lives. As most of the family headed over to Summit to hit Alpine Bowl, Wolverine Bowl and the terrain park in between Summit and Kangaroo, Nik was only interested in Roundhouse…. we must have skied Dance Floor 600 times. By Wednesday I was “danced out. Then something happened! Nik’s brother Jack was bragging about getting “massive air” and “shredding” Scott Chair etc. etc. and trying to get Nik off the Dance Floor. A little pressure from the brother never hurts!

Now here is my 2009/2010 Alpine Meadows Moment (I know finally!). Nik was ready for a change of scenery! As we are headed up Scott Chair in preparation for, as my son Jack would say, “shredding Gentian Gully” I looked at Nik and said “are you sure you’re ready for this?” He just looked at me a nodded. As I trailed my boys through the trees and onto Gentian Gully I was amazed at what I was seeing – they really were tearing it up. Nik was acting like the accident had never happened! I’m telling you the greatest joy I have in life is watching my boys have fun, and even more so selfishly watching them have fun doing something I have loved since I was a kid! I’m telling you the memory of that run will keep me going until next seasons first trip the Alpine!

The rest of the week was spent with the whole family skiing together. There wasn’t much of the mountain we didn’t ski! And I am telling you there is nothing cooler than skiing with my boys! And to think I wasn’t sure if Nik would ever want to ski again. He keeps bugging me for one more trip…….

Submitted By: Matt