Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows, CA Base-to-Base Gondola Update: Andy Wirth & Troy Caldwell Hold Meeting Last Friday, Andy Wirth (President & COO of Squaw Valley) and Troy Caldwell (owner of White Wolf, the land between Squaw Valley & Alpine Meadows ski resorts) held a joint meeting to inform the public on the latest information about the Base-to-Base Gondola proposed between Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows ski resorts. Below are the details of that meeting. SQUAW-ALPINE […] Industry News SnowBrains | August 9, 2017 8 Comments
Squaw Valley Ski Resort Fined $20,250 by Cal/OSHA for Ski Patoller’s Death This Year On January 24th, 2017 Squaw Valley Professional Ski Patroller Joe Zuiches, 42, was killed while performing avalanche control duties on Mainline Pocket above the Gold Coast chairlift at Squaw Valley ski resort in Lake Tahoe, CA. Joe was killed when an explosive charge went off near him. Joe was 42-years-old and leaves behind a wife an infant son. A 6 […] Industry News SnowBrains | August 9, 2017 0 Comments
New Squaw Partner Applauds Vail’s Environmental Efforts and Vows to Work with Them Although Aspen owner SkiCo’s recent consolidation of some of North Americas biggest ski resorts puts them in direct competition with Vail Resorts, there are at least some things they can still work together on, reports aspentimes.com. Vail’s recent ‘Epic Promise for a Zero Footprint’ has been applauded by Auden Schendler, vice president of sustainability for Aspen Skiing Co., claiming it […] Industry News Steven Agar | August 4, 2017 1 Comment
Aspen Heads $1.5 Billion Venture and Combines Squaw Valley Holdings, Intrawest and Mammoth Resorts The new joint venture of KSL Capital Partners and Henry Crown and Company, the Crown family own Aspen Skiing CO. (SkiCo), announced yesterday that the $1.5bn purchase of Intrawest Resort Holdings and of Mammoth Resorts is now complete, reports sierrasun.com. The sale consolidates Squaw Valley Ski Holdings, KSL, Intrawest and Mammoth Resorts as one company with 12 mountains and 6m annual skier […] Industry News Steven Agar | August 1, 2017 15 Comments
VIDEO: Freeride World Tour Badass and Squaw Valley Local Ryan Faye’s 2016/17 Season Edit Ryan Faye has been throwing down this season. From the Chimney and Siberia Ridge at Squaw, to Alaskan faces on the Freeride World Tour, to the kickers at Snowbird, Ryan turned heads and cemented his status as part of the next generation of top Squaw freeriders. Ryan started his freeride career on the Squaw Valley Big Mountain team, and just […] Featured Video Roger Romani | July 28, 2017 1 Comment
Squaw Valley, CA’s 2016/17 Season Highlight VIDEO: 2nd Snowiest Winter in History… [arve url=""] SnowBrains | July 22, 2017 38 Likes 3 Tweets 0 Comments
Squaw Valley, CA is Officially CLOSED for the 2016/17 Season! Squaw Valley, CA just had one their most epic winter seasons on record. Saturday, July 15th, 2017 was their last day of winter operations. Squaw Valley 2016/17: 60 feet (728″) of snowfall 10 atmospheric rivers The snowiest month on record (282″ of snow in January 2017!) The snowiest February on record at 196″ 200 days of winter operation (November 23rd, […] Industry News SnowBrains | July 18, 2017 2 Comments
Squaw Valley, CA Saturday July 15th Conditions Report: Last Day of the Epic 2016/17 Season? All good things must come to an end. While Squaw might be able to eke out another weekend, we’re now down to only Gold Coast, and it looks like last weekend might have been the end to the legendary 2017 season. The snow was slushy and fun. Gold Coast was the only lift that was spinning, and accessed a strip of snow […] Conditions Report Roger Romani | July 17, 2017 5 Comments
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