Squaw Valley Conditions Report: Steep and Deep Squaw is insane right now. There is so much snow. Atmospheric river after atmospheric river keep dumping monumental amounts of snow in Tahoe and the skiing is amazing. The best thing about today was the lack of crowds. Based on how crowded it was last Friday, I was certain that today was going to be the same. It was quite the opposite, however. I lined up at KT at around 8:10AM expecting to be in the middle of the pack. We were 7th in line! After the first hour, the concentration of people greatly decreased and wait times might have been no longer than 10 minutes. Bevan Waite | January 21, 2017 2 Comments
Squaw Valley Conditions Report: Red Dog and KT Squaw gave the locals a gift today. Red dog opened at about 10:40 and was ripping for a few runs. KT opened around 12 and was also amazing. Everything is so filled in. The fingers race was on today and it was suer fun not only to ski them, but also to see all the other people huck themselves off massive rocks. It was pretty bad visibility all day, so pics and vids don’t do the awesome conditions justice. Bevan Waite | January 12, 2017 0 Comments
Squaw Valley Conditions Report: House-Hucking Tahoe has received 13 feet of snow since the beginning of january. It snowed a bit, then it dumped 7 feet, then rained like hell, and finally nuked another 5 feet. Its been blowing up… but strangely, there hasnt been much skiing going on the past couple days. Due to the extreme loading of the snowpack over a relatively short period of time, the backcountry is far too unstable to even consider venturing out into. Also, many of the resorts are closed due to getting TOO MUCH SNOW! what an awesome problem to have, right? Well, out of anticipation and creative boredom, a friend of mine (John) and I decided to have a little fun off some low angle roofs. Bevan Waite | January 12, 2017 1 Comment
Squaw Valley Conditions Report: Calm before the Rain Squaw Valley was all time on Friday January 6th 2017. For the first time this season they opened KT-22 arguably the sickest chair lift on the west coast. It snowed heavy wet snow two days before, but got very cold Thursday night which seemed to suck a lot of the moisture out of the snow. After a quick run down broken arrow, we went down to line up at KT-22, but the line was so long it didn’t seem worth the wait (thats saying something considering the awesomeness of KT). we decided to ski the funnel a few times and then head down to Shirley/Granite. While we were down by Shirley we got word granite was opening in 2 hours and decided to wait at granite literally first in line. It was rad. Bevan Waite | January 9, 2017 2 Comments
Squaw Valley Conditions Report: 7+ feet of new snow Aside from the ever growing line at red dog being a 45 minute wait at times, the skiing was fantastic. As the day progressed, patrol was able to get the Funitel open around 12:30pm. As soon as you could glimpse the upper mountain from the gondola, it was very clear why the rest of the mountain had not opened before despite the long lines. HUGE avalanches had ripped slopes everywhere. Bigger avalanches than I have ever seen at squaw. The area under Siberia lift ripped a 6-10′ crown from under the lift all the way out through mainline pocket. Enormous. Conditions Report Bevan Waite | January 5, 2017 1 Comment
Kirkwood, CA Conditions Report: Chalky Fun. Wednesday at Kirkwood was as good as it gets for conditions between storms. Kirkwood got a bit more snow from the last few warm storms that rolled in compared to a lot of resorts in the area. It is very clearly still early conditions however. Everything at Kirkwood is about 2-3 time bigger and scarier than it is during the normal season. Conditions Report Bevan Waite | December 22, 2016 0 Comments
Alpine Meadows Conditions Report: 7″ does the job. The rain finally tuned to snow on Friday morning at Alpine Meadows. The past week has been pretty painful to watch such huge amounts of unfrozen water fall from the sky and melt what little snow we had from late November. But finally after inches and inches of rain had created a bullet proof ice layer 10 inches thick, it began to snow. Friday Squaw was reporting 6″ on the upper mountain and alpine was reporting 7″. Bombs were echoing off mountain bowls teasing the few skiers waiting in line for the upper mountain to open. Due to bad vis, the neither resorts got their upper mountains open until about 10:30-11am. After that, however it was great. Alpine had fresh, soft turns wherever you looked until you hit a wind scoured unsuspecting ice bump. There were definitely a few sketchy wind scoured ice rinks scattered around ridges and such, but the majority of turns were soft and silent. Conditions Report Bevan Waite | December 17, 2016 1 Comment
Memoirs of a Competitive Skiing College Student Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be on a college freeride team that travels to 8 freeride world qualifier comps during the season? Or what it would be like to be continually pushed to your limits by your peers, coaches and competitors to go full-send 100% of the time? Well wonder no longer as you are about to see the result of all those things in Tucker Vollbrecht’s latest season edit. His progress in one year is astounding. We are impressed. Read about Tucker’s experience training and traveling in cramped quarters with his equally rowdy teammates below. Bevan Waite | April 13, 2016 1 Comment
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