Alpine Meadows

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 another 47 inches in the past 24 hours!  That makes for the biggest 24 & 48 hour snowfall totals so far this season.  That makes a 4 day storm total of 106 inches and brings up to around 90% of the annual snowfall average.  Interestingly we had 105 inches the week before Thanksgiving, [...]

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Alpine Meadows picked up another 34 inches in the past 24 hours as of 6 a.m., just 1 inch shy of the biggest 24 hour total this season back on 11/20.  That brings the 3 day storm total to 54 inches(4.5 feet) so far!  We are only about halfway through this 5-6 day storm. Heavy snow is already [...]

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