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The Top 5 Adventure Cities in The USA:

Anchorage

America has long been a place of wild unknown lands. Though in modern society that element of untamed environments is no longer a part of our everyday lives, many people have come enjoy the places that preserve the organic, unrefined landscapes through a variety of outdoor activities. Of all the cities in the US it can be rare to find places where the most coveted natural environments reside directly next to built ones. A juxtaposition such as this fosters growth of outdoor communities who both recreate and act to preserve the native land surrounding them. In our opinion, the following cities with this juxtaposition are some of the best in the country.
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WinterWonder Grass Concert Report: Squaw Valley

The 2018 WinterWonder Grass Music Festival made a stop at Squaw Valley this past weekend and Tahoe showed up. Despite pouring rain, sleet, and snow, no one seemed to have a problem getting down to some world class bluegrass and acoustic music. Bands like the California Honeydrops, Fruition, Elephant Revival, and the Devil Makes Three were just a few of the bands that played on the main stage during the three day festival.
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Squaw Valley Conditions Report: Unbelievable Awesomeness

This report covers the last several days at Squaw Valley.  It has been absolutely insane in Tahoe the past 5 days.  The storm started rolling through on Tuesday night.  Wednesday was a fantastic sleeper pow day great for hippy pow turns bad for sending.  Thursday was and even better sleeper pow day with pockets of amazing visibility perfect for sending.  Friday was the deepest day I’ve ever skied in Tahoe this season and not many crowds though the vis was pretty bad.  Saturday was amazing pow day but the lines were crazy.  It took about an hour per lap and got skied out quickly… but the fingers opened and some people got quite sendy.  Sunday, today, was also crowded, but since today was the first day the storm broke, squaw opened the whole mountain and it really thinned the crowds out.
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Squaw Valley Conditions Report: Steep and Deep

Squaw Valley was absolutely unreal today.  The storm everyone’s been talking about hit yesterday in full force and started out quite warm.  It was raining everywhere, but slowly throughout the day the rain turned to snow and at about 7pm, it started to accumulate. I went to bed dreaming of face shots and when I woke, my dreams were more true than ever.  when dawn broke, 10-12 inches of snow was piled on my railing.  I hastily made breakfast, threw on my gear and ran out the door towards the lifts.
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Jackson Hole Conditions Report: Grey Bird Grins

I got up early this morning to shoot the sunrise and it was absolutely bluebird.  An amazing sunrise means a clear blue bird day, yeah? No, in the Tetons you are always at the mercy of the weather.  By mid morning the sky clouded over and we finally made it out onto the mountain.  I was no pow day but the snow on the groomers was quite good.  Also this was my first time skiing Jackson Hole and holy hell they have some awesome groomers.  One of the things my home mountain Squaw Valley lacks is quality, long, steep groomers.  Jackson Hole definitely has more than enough ripping smooth corduroy to keep you busy all day long.  
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Squaw Valley Conditions Report & Photo Tour: 6-Inches of New Snow

Yesterday was pretty good at Squaw Valley.  It snowed about 3 inches the afternoon before yesterday and then another 3 inches over night.  Honestly it didn’t really ski like 6 inches though.  I’d say it felt more like 4 on top of ice but in the spots where it blew around and collected, you wouldn’t hit the bottom.  

I started out the day at KT-22, did two laps before heading to Squaw 1 and then to Siberia.  KT’s chairlift side was actually pretty good for about half the run before it turned into ice bumps slightly dusted with new snow.  Siberia was where it was at.  Headwall nor the slot opened, but the reverse traverse to Sunbowl to C2 bowls was good to go as well as the high traverse around Headwall face to Classic chute.  

You definitely had to ski with a bit of caution yesterday due to it being variable soft to rock hard ice, but all in all it was a darn fun day.  C2 bowls was definitely my favorite laps of the day, though I heard all of granite opened including the peak and that was pretty good too. 
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Squaw Valley Conditions Report: Chalky Icy Fun

Obviously February has not delivered much snow to Squaw Valley this year.  We recently got a bit of colder weather and a few snowflakes.  It didn’t accumulate much but a few inches of new blanketed the slopes earlier this week.  Today all that new snow has been skied off, but it is still quite chalky and fun.  The groomers are best, especially off Siberia, fast and smooth, you can rip em.  Of course the Gold Coast park is open if you’d prefer to catch some air.
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Squaw Valley Conditions Report: Juneuary

Today was classic Juneuary conditions.  Unfortunately I missed Tahoe’s fleeting good conditions from last week.  I just got back from Japan where I really can’t complain about anything, but regardless of the fact that I was skiing waist deep pow for the last 2 weeks, today was pretty darn fun.  I don’t know if its the fact that the sun is still so low in the sky in January, but even when it was 60ish degrees at the base, the snow at the top of squaw was chalky and fun.
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Squaw Valley, CA Conditions Report: Christmas Weekend Pockets of Fun

Squaw Valley recently received around 4-5″ of fresh snow right in time for the christmas crowds to enjoy at least a little bit of soft wintry snow.  Everyone I know in Tahoe was hoping for a storm before christmas, and though it was small, we got one.  It certainly spiced some things up again for a few days. The day started out slow.  I rode Squaw 1 from the village and made my way to Siberia.  Siberia was alright, the groomer off the top was pretty fun, but it was shaved off and a bit icy at the top.  I got a call from a buddy that he was at Shirley, so I headed over to Gold Coast and met up with him at the top of Shirley where he proceeded to tell me about a sick double off Granite.
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Squaw Valley Conditions Report: 4 Inches of Fun

At 6:30am on Wednesday morning, Squaw Valley reported receiving 4″ of snow.  At 7:30am they updated their reporting to 2″ noting, “We jumped the gun…”  Surprisingly enough, Squaw had not actually jumped the gun.  It skied like 5″ and was one hell of a day! The morning was best.  While in line at the Funi eager crowd members shared rumors that both Siberia and Emigrant would be on maintenance hold for some reason.  I didn’t know what to expect, but Squaw Valley Patrol did a great job of getting terrain open right around 9am.
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Squaw Valley Conditions Report: All Time Awesome

Squaw Valley is the most filled in I’ve ever seen it in march. Granted, I haven’t been here that long, but this year has been amazing. The fingers look like they did in 2011 and ride like mini alaskan spines. Its so filled in a lot of the cool rocks and exposed lines are gone, or are considerably mellower than previous years.

After seeing that squaw had been dumped on 3 feet and was closed for the day, a friend convinced me we had to leave jackson, drive 13 hours in a slow, full size van back to California to catch the tail end of the storm. We arrived monday night, charged cameras and fell asleep in order to wake up at 5:30 and line up at KT for the imminent fingers race that morning.
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Squaw Valley Conditions Report: Deep and Damn Fun

It snowed quite a bit more than expected Monday at Squaw Valley. Monday night it snowed even harder (around a foot) and we woke up early to ensure we’d get the goods. Unsurprisingly, in the morning Squaw was not open and everything that was scheduled was on wind hold indefinitely. After making a hearty breakfast, studying some Squallywood lines, and wondering whether I should just go to work instead of waiting around, Red Dog and Squaw Creek finally opened at 11am, so we walked over and hopped on the chair.

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Sierra at Tahoe Conditions Report: Deepest I’ve ever skied

Obviously, all of Lake Tahoe has been getting completely buried in snow this January. In fact, these last few weeks have been the most consecutive pow days I think I’ve ever skied, period. Not to mention Monday at Sierra at Tahoe which was the deepest pow day I have ever skied. Before Monday I had never been to Sierra at Tahoe, but I decided to meet up with some tele friends that were skiing there. I left my place at Squaw and drove through a wild blizzard on the east side of the lake all the way to south lake before passing out and waking up to three feet of new snow on the mountain.
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Alpine Meadows Conditions Report: Bluebird Pow

Alpine Meadows was incredible today. It was the first time I’d seen it bluebird there in weeks and the coverage was unbelievable. Things that never hold enough snow to ski were good to go. Many of the lines in Wolverine and Beaver bowl were so filled in they weren’t even steep. The Keyhole was open and skiing very well. There were so many creative lines to pick from. Hands down most fun day I’ve ever had at Alpine Meadows.
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