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Palisades Tahoe in California would be hosting the 2022. U.S. Freestyle Championships at the end of the month—if it had enough snow. But since it doesn’t, Deer Valley Resort in Utah has stepped up to the plate.
On Wednesday afternoon, US Ski & Snowboard announced that the event would be relocated to Deer Valley on the weekend of March 25-27, according to The Salt Lake Tribune.
“Deer Valley is honored to step in and host the 2022 U.S. Freestyle Championships on our 2002 Olympic and World Cup mogul ski run,” Mark Brownlie, the COO of Alterra Mountain Company, which owns Deer Valley, said in a press release. “We look forward to hosting the athletes and supporting them as they close out their competition season.”
Men’s and Women’s moguls competitions will begin on Friday, March 25, and run through the weekend. The Deer Valley Freestyle World Cup will not include an aerials competition because it was not an event originally scheduled at Palisades Tahoe, and it will instead take place at Bristol Mountain in New York on Sunday, March 20, the Salt Lake Tribune Reports.
Snowbrains unfortunately posted the wrong Event Schedule in this notice. The posted schedule is from the January 2022 World Cup at Deer Valley, not the upcoming US Freestyle Nationals event.
Amazing Tahoe and Squaw don’t have enough snow for that. Feast or famine snow for real this year
I don’t really understand. How much snow is necessary to hold the event?
I’ve seen several stories that are really just the press release with no details other than, “there’s no snow.” And then I look around at pretty much a normal late March snowpack in Tahoe.
Palisades has a base depth of 43″ and a mid mountain depth of 99″. The whole mountain is open, with plenty of coverage on the north facing slopes where you’d hold this competition.
While it’s too warm to make snow in Cali in March, there doesn’t seem to be any need to make snow.
That said, perhaps the Arial jumps are hard to make near the base without that snowmaking?
Hop in your time machine and enjoy all those January 2022 events!