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Alpine Meadows is a ski resort in the western United States, located in Alpine Meadows, California. Near the northwest shore of Lake Tahoe, it offers 2,400 acres (9.7 km 2) of skiable terrain, 13 different lifts, and a vertical drop of 1,802 feet (549 m). [1] [2] In 2018 Alpine Meadows was merged into the Alterra Mountain Company.
Palisades Tahoe is a ski resort in the western United States, located in Olympic Valley, California, northwest of Tahoe City in the Sierra Nevada range. From its founding in 1949, the resort was known as Squaw Valley, but it changed its name in 2021 due to the derogatory connotations of the word "squaw".
Alpine Meadows is an unincorporated community in Placer County, California. [1] The community is located on Bear Creek , a tributary of the Truckee River 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Tahoe City , [ 2 ] at an elevation of 6,480 ft (1,980 m).
Aerial view of the Bear Valley, Kirkwood, and Lake Tahoe regions near the 2017–2018 season open. Bear Valley Mountain Resort is a ski area in the western United States, located in the Sierra Nevada of California on Highway 4 between Lake Tahoe and Yosemite National Park—about three hours southeast of Sacramento and one hour from Angels Camp. [1]
In 1970, Troy Caldwell started working selling lift tickets at Alpine Meadows. He was an avid freestyle skier and later joined the US Freestyle team. He met his wife Susan who also worked at Alpine Meadows. Caldwell had studied architecture in college and also built houses in the summer months, building one to live in and another as a rental ...
Black cottonwood and birch accentuate the fall season along Alpine Meadows Drive in Girdwood, AK near the Chugach National Forest in south central Alaska. Photo by Kate Mohatt. Camera manufacturer: Canon: Camera model: Canon PowerShot SD1000: Exposure time: 1/160 sec (0.00625) F-number: f/3.5: ISO speed rating: 80: Date and time of data generation
Echo Summit is a mountain pass over the Sierra Nevada in the western United States, located in eastern El Dorado County, California.At 7,377 ft (2,249 m) above sea level, it is the highest point on U.S. Route 50 in California, which traverses it at postmile 66.48 between Twin Bridges and Meyers, south of Lake Tahoe.
This is a varied mountain landscape of rugged, snowy peaks, glaciers and alpine meadows. In the southern ranges the temperature varies from 15 °C (59 °F) in summer to −3.5 °C (26 °F) in winter with the northern ranges 2–3 °C (4–5 °F) cooler.