Mountain Review: Alpine Meadows, California (Pre-Merger)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ส.ค. 2024
- This review is OUT OF DATE and was based on the 2019-2022 seasons. Please watch this video for our most recent overview of Palisades Tahoe: • Palisades Tahoe, CA Re...
An in-depth video review of Palisades Tahoe - Alpine Meadows, a ski area located just north of Lake Tahoe.
Overall Mountain Score: 71/100 - #2 (tied) of 10 in Tahoe
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Snow: 8/10
Resiliency: 7/10
Size: 6/10
Terrain Diversity: 7/10
Challenge: 10/10
Lifts: 6/10
Crowd Flow: 8/10
Facilities: 5/10
Navigation: 6/10
Mountain Aesthetic: 8/10
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UPDATE: Squaw Valley/Alpine Meadows is now Palisades Tahoe: www.peakrankings.com/content/squaw-valley-alpine-meadows-officially-renamed-palisades-tahoe
Such an underrated mountain! Wolverine Bowl is such a great run and hiking a bit further gives you access to some of the most crazy runs in Tahoe!
Alpine is probably the best all-round resort at Tahoe. Great views, varied terrain, good lift service, a good, solid resort. You can never go wrong going to Alpine. I've been going there for fifty years. I've skied 'glamour' places like Park City, Aspen, Vail, etc. But if I had to pick one resort for my home, it would be Alpine.
I love this place. It doesn’t have the dreadful “leaving the resort” situation of Squaw or the masses of Bay Area beginners. You can lap whatever you want all day with no lines outside of holidays
Alpine probably has more "skiable acres" than most Tahoe areas. Heavenly may have 4000 acres within its boundaries but a fair amount of that acreage is not really skiable. Alpine and Sugarbowl are hidden gems.
Love Sugarbowl and Kirkwood
Had my best powder day every at Sugar Bowl. It was knee and thigh deep, I'm 5-5 so it was big deal to me. It's a great place to ski. Kirkwood is a bit out of the way but great demanding skiing.
Love it! Im bummed that squaw and Alpine are connecting.I have been skiing there for years, I remember where they are putting the gondola there used to be a main carpet!
I learned to ski at Alpine Meadows in the late 1970s.
I learned a few years ago working as a lift operator halfway thru the first day didn't need the poles and end of season I was doing black diamonds and tree runs love it still
Thanks for these reviews! Could you do a bear valley one? Thanks!
We haven't visited Bear Valley yet, but it's in the pipeline for next season!
Yeah I agree it would be awesome if you review it!
I remember when it was one of the last resorts at Tahoe to allow snowboarding.
At 2:53 I believe it's not colors but couloirs
There’s not a single long time Alpine skier who is looking forward to that base to base gondola. It’s the end of Alpine as we’ve known it.
Back in the 70s and 80s, when I skied Alpine, I was a passholder there for decades. We were always open longer than squirrel valley what are you talking about
The old warming hut seems like Austria. Never tear it down
Avalanche territory
Really don't they dynamite the mountain??? I have been skiing over 16 mountains in the Canadian Rockies plus Baker for over 30 years and you know it's a good pow pow day when you hear the technicians blasting the dynamite sticks!!!😄
They bomb extensively as well as use the Gas X exploders in certain areas.
Actually, they use an old 90mm army cannon / recoilless rifle.