Plenty of Snow
Guess what? It is snowing again in Alpine
The Unofficial Alpine Meadows Ski Report
Produced by Andy Wertheim
Tahoe/Truckee Realtor
email: andyw@sierra.net
Our real estate website: www.tahoeriverfrontrealty.com
Hello skiers,
Guess what? It is snowing again in Alpine. Light snow is falling from a gray sky this afternoon. I skied over the weekend, and then was forced to leave Tahoe for a couple of days for some culture, at least that is what my wife claims when we spend time in San Francisco. This trip came at a rather unfortunate time, as I missed three powder days while shopping in the city. As you must know, Alpine was hit with a big snow storm that left two or three feet of new snow on the ground on Wednesday morning. Skiing on Tuesday during the storm was limited with high winds, dumping snow, and limited operations. Wednesday was a blue sky day with deep powder (evidently not as light as the Friday before) but still extremely good. The mountain was fully open and plenty of people road and skied the mountain into the late hours of the afternoon. I missed the face shots under the clear blue sky and the numerous untracked turns that I love so much, but tomorrow looks like another good powder day. Today the visibility was not very good, the winds were rather strong with Scott on wind alert and Lakeview not operating. We did have a couple of very nice powder runs below the road that returns a skier from Sherwood to Hot Wheels. I found some untracked, deep, light snow, in the trees in this area below Expert Shortcut. The cut up snow was not bad and the groomed runs were smooth and fast. We did not ski long today, so I cannot report too much, except to say that there is plenty of snow on the mountain to last into May. I understand Squaw has announced it will remain open through May. Someone mentioned that we have received 155 inches of snow in March thus far. This is not a record, but approaching one that we once called the Miracle March.
Enjoy your day. Andy
