Conditions Report
Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows are back. According to friends, they’ve been skiing well for about 6 weeks now. Some new snow, some rain, some corn, some slush, some ice, some great terrain open.
This weekend was no exception. If you’ve forgotten (I had), Squaw has unreal terrain. KT-22 is the mothership. Ski/ride it all day as fast as you can and you will get better at skiing/riding. There’s no two ways about it. There is a reason why Squaw pumps out world class skiers in Big Mountain and Racing: KT-22.
SQUAW/ALPINE WEEKEND CONDITIONS BREAKDOWN:
Saturday @ Squaw: The Funnel opened for the first time all season and was great: smooth, steep corn. Rock Garden off KT was steep, rocky, slushy, and perfect from 2:30pm to 4pm. Best runs of the day were on Rock Garden. Icy in the morning.
Sunday @ Alpine: Icy in the morning, then good everywhere. Soft, slushy, bumpy, fast, fun. Rahlves Banzai Tour was rad to watch and our boy Ben for getting 3rd place. If you do well at the Banzai, it means that you’re a helluva skier or rider. Congrats Ben.
PHOTO TOUR:
Monday @ Squaw: A few inches of fresh snow and ripping conditions. Upper mountain was mostly closed but KT-22 was killer. No one out. Red Dog Ridge was fast and smooth. The Nose was fun. Rock Garden was kinda scary…
PHOTO TOUR:
My abs still hurt from laughter at witnessing Mota’s fall off the chair lift 😀 Good times!
Tell your Dad that the rest of us Dads are proud he is on our team (showing you squirts how its done!)
Official Statement:
In regard to my mishap (documented above) on the chairlift KT-22.
There are ‘those’ people who would readily assume alcohol was involved in this incident.
And ‘those’ people would be right.
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Glad Bota still lives, figured someone’s still gotta be rockin one. How many GNAR points for that??
Was far up the line when the chair stopped, for an above average time, figured someone slid down the ramp into the gravel. Glad you’re okay.
Like the guy who came down schimmelfennig onto easy road, jumped the dirt patch only to sling himself from the swale onto the huge mud/dirt/gravel field on the other side. Classic, had a good belly laugh from that.