Sierra Watch Claims 25% of Squaw/Alpine Gondola Crosses Protected Lands The conservation group Sierra Watch has just released a statement claiming that the gondola Squaw/Alpine has proposed to connect the two resorts would cross into protected public lands in the Granite Chief wilderness. It appears that as much as 25% of the proposed gondola would cross public lands. To learn more, please read the detailed press release below. Olympic Valley, Calif. – When KSL Capital Partners announced plans to connect Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows earlier this week, they put their proposed gondola on a collision course with federally designated […] Industry News SnowBrains | April 17, 2015 4 Comments
Squaw & Alpine Will CONNECT Via Gondola: Squaw and Alpine will connect via a gondola. Well, they hope it will. They still haven’t gotten approval for this project but they are sharing with us what their vision for the two ski resorts connecting is. The vision is a gondola that connects Squaw and Alpine’s base areas with no skiing in the White Wolf zone. We’ve interviewd Troy Caldwell, the owner of White Wolf (the land between Alpine and Squaw), a few times and his original vision was a small ski resort between the Squaw and Alpine. That seems to be off the table at this point as Squaw and Alpine push for a base to base gondola. […] Industry News Miles Clark | April 13, 2015 13 Comments
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