Deep snow today
It has been dumping at Alpine all day.
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,
It has been dumping at Alpine all day. We received over a foot of snow during the early morning hours, and I think we are up to 2 feet at the base area as of this afternoon. Alpine is reporting 3 feet of new snow at mid mountain and above. The new snow felt light and should have been with the low temperatures that existed this morning (in the mid twenties). Alpine’s snow phone mentioned the possibility of a late opening, so there were not too many people waiting in line at 9. Roundhouse, however opened on time with Summit opening later. The snow turned out to be deep and not the easiest to maneuver. If your tips dropped at all, you were soon stopping with snow piling up to your waist. We needed steep runs, but those were few and far between. I heard a number of people talking about the same problem. We needed fatter and longer boards this morning, especially on Roundhouse. The skiing actually got a lot better as the slopes were cut up. Summit opened and off we speed to the top where winds were whipping snow all over the place (mostly at the ridge top) and visibility was poor. We did have a few good untracked runs in the Sunspot area of Alpine Bowl and in the trees of Peril Ridge. The Face was good as well. Unfortunately, the winds or the heavy snow created conditions that caused Alpine to close Summit mid morning, as well as Scott and Lakeview. The line on Roundhouse was too much for me, so I headed home. Evidently, Sherwood was open most of the day, but there was not way of figuring that out. With all this new snow skiing will be great this weekend. The new snow will settle down and tomorrow should be epic. I did manage to get plenty of good, facing wetting, turns in this morning. If you really want to know the truth, my best turns were in Tiegel Chutes (not long, but just steep enough, and not so deep as other areas. We had a couple of epic runs in these hidden areas).
The sky is clearing. Take care on the snowy and slippery roads tonight.
Enjoy your day. Andy
