Alpine Meadows

Jeremy Benson getting his first taste of June powder at Alpine Meadows, with POV helmet cam footage.

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The warmup is brief today and tomorrow as the next shot of cold air is set to move in Wednesday.  This shot is much stronger than over the weekend.  Highs today could break 60 at the base and 50 on the mountain.  As the cold front approaches on Wednesday winds will pick up and highs will be [...]

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Alpine Meadows picked up another 19 inches in the past 24 hours bringing the total for storm #1 in this series to 26 inches.  It also brings the weeks total to 136 inches, the month’s total to 240 inches, and the season total to 748 inches up top!  This is the biggest season since 1994-95 [...]

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Alpine picked up 28 inches in the past 24 hours bringing the storm total to 54 inches and the 7 day total to 9 feet on top.  There is a ton of snow still to come this week as Alpine is quickly approaching 700 inches on the season.  The mountain is buried in massive amounts [...]

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Kami Abi-Nader and Bennett Drummond tackling The Buttress at the Mountain Hardwear Big Mountain Telemark Series at Alpine Meadows.

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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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