Snow on the way?
The major holiday appears to be over as many skiers have left the area
The Unofficial Alpine Meadows Ski Report
Produced by Andy Wertheim
Tahoe/Truckee Realtor
email: andyinalpine@yahoo.com
website: www.tahoeriverfrontrealty.com
Hello Skiers,
The major holiday appears to be over as many skiers have left the area. There are still a good number of people on vacation through this week, but the crowds are gone. This year the traffic and ski hill crowds did not seem as congested as in past years. There were plenty of riders, and not enough terrain, which made the slope look and feel over crowded, but the parking lots were not filled to capacity on many prime days.
The snow surface remains reasonably good, especially in the early morning on the nicely groomed portions of the mountain. I skied the lower portion of High Yellow, Wolverine Bowl, the Face, and the Sisters over the past couple of days. The snow on all these runs was nice winter pack, sprinkled with the tops of trees, bushes, and a few rocks. There are plenty of obstacles, even on the groomed runs, and they seems to show more as the day progresses, but slow skiing and plenty of turns will help you avoid most of them and enhance your enjoyment of our current conditions. Later in the day the nice soft surface of the groomed runs is shaved smooth by the constant turning of skis and snowboards creating a rather firm surface in certain spots and small piles of soft shaved snow in other area.
The good news is that a storm is forecast for Wednesday night and into Thursday with the potential of over a foot of new snow. Some weathermen have been heard to whisper 1.5 to 2 feet of snow, but I will wait and see what happens to make my prediction. Wednesday the winds are supposed to increase again. This is getting a little tiring, as the high winds are closing lifts, or just a nuisance, and they tend to blow existing pack over the ridge tops.
Enjoy your day. Andy
