The Unofficial Alpine Meadows Ski Report

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,
Wow! A day or two of spring weather in Tahoe. Yesterday and today have been just beautiful at Alpine with sunny, blue skies and warm temperatures during the day. Overnight temperatures have remained in the thirties or even into the upper twenties, but the daytime temperatures have risen into the forties. Road are dry, birds are chirping, and spring is in the air. This may not last long as weather is predicted again over the weekend, but amounts of precipitation are supposed to be on the light side. Thursday was another powder day at Alpine with a foot of the new stuff on the ground from the Wednesday storm. Conditions varied from well packed, stiff wind pack to some lighter and easier turning snow, but plenty of happy people populated the slopes and etched turns all over the mountain. Of course, the warmer spring temperatures softened the pack in the early afternoon creating heavy, difficult skier tracked snow in areas such as Sunspot that had not been groomed this morning. The north facing slopes that had been well skier packed and the groomed runs were excellent this morning. We skied Palisades (east and west), Peril Ridge, Peter’s Peril, D8, D7, Wolverine and Alpine Bowl, and Ridge Run. All of them were covered with winter snow or smooth wind pack. Keyhole, and Open Slope looked very nice from below. High Yellow was very good. The lower slopes were a little more firm from the softening the day before and the freezing overnight, but they were not icy. I am sure later in the day the south facing slopes turned to spring snow, especially where it had been groomed. The sun has disappeared early this evening and our sky is again grey. A few flakes of snow, very wet, have fallen, but it is not snowing at the moment.
Roads are dry and not very crowded at this time.
Enjoy your day. Andy