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Shirley Lake & Belmont Terrain Park to Open Friday at Palisades Tahoe, CA

Mother Nature finally helped out Palisades Tahoe a bit! The ski area received a lot of rain and mixed precipitation across all elevations over the past few days. The 24-hour snow total is up to 7 inches on the upper mountain. While Palisades would have loved to have received nothing but snow throughout this whole storm cycle, moisture isn’t the worst […]

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Avatar photo SnowBrains | December 20, 2023
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VIDEO: Speed Skiing on Shirley Lake at Squaw

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Rochelle Swanson | March 5, 2019
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Squaw Valley, CA Conditions Report + Photo Tour: Shirley Lake Powder Day

People were smiling like crazy at Squaw today.  Everyone.  Smiling. Squaw opened Shirley Lake at about 11:30am and it was all powder.  Shirley Chutes, all the Tree Runs, Rainbow Bowl, all of it. Snow was recrystallized powder and it skied beautifully.   People were hucking everything in sight and squeezing through every little straightline. Shirley went off today and it […]

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Miles Clark | November 29, 2016
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Squaw Valley Conditions Report: 33″ in Past 7 Days + Siberia & Shirley Lake Open on Saturday

Squaw Valley ski resort in Lake Tahoe, CA opened last week on November 26th, 2014. They’ve had the Gold Coast chair open and nothing else and it’s been fun. Squaw has gotten 33″ of snow in the past 7 days on the upper mountain with 21″ of those inches falling on Tuesday and Wednesday. We had some fun out there on Gold Coast today. The new snow covered many of the rocks and logs that were laying around and made the off-piste coverage much more legit. The terrain is all […]

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Miles Clark | December 4, 2014
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Shirley Lake Express Opens @ Squaw Valley Tomorrow

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Squaw just announced that the 6-person Shirley Lake chair will be opening tomorrow, Saturday, December 21st, 2013. This is big news as thus far we’ve been relegated to two runs on Red Dog, one run on Squaw Creek, and one run on Gold Coast. We’ll be out there and let you know how it’s skiing. Happy Friday! Shirley Lake is opening this weekend! (conditions permitting) – Squaw Valley Facebook […]

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Avatar photo SnowBrains | December 20, 2013
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Friday Fun: Shirley Lake Chinese Downhill @ Squaw Valley USA

On March 31st, 2010 at Squaw Valley USA, over 100 innocent humans waited for nearly an hour to ski terrain so flat that they knew they wouldn’t be able to make a single turn.  But, this is Squaw, therefore the humans here are powder hungry snow freaks that will do anything to get at fresh, frozen H2O. Yes, it was […]

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Miles Clark | August 16, 2013
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