Thinking About Skiing
The lift served ski season in California just ended, and what a season it was. Alpine Meadows closed a mere 37 days ago. Yesterday, Mammoth… Read More »Thinking About Skiing
The lift served ski season in California just ended, and what a season it was. Alpine Meadows closed a mere 37 days ago. Yesterday, Mammoth… Read More »Thinking About Skiing
The second weekend of the 2023 Alpine Meadows Summer Session is now complete, and it was much better than many people hoped for. The weather… Read More »Weekend Two Of The 2023 Alpine Meadows Summer Session Is Now Complete
Bit by bit, with warm day time temperatures and weak freezes, the corn has been ripening, ever so slowly. Today, I would venture to say… Read More »Corn You Believe It?
Third Winter sure was fun, with some very good powder skiing over the weekend. For those that skied at Palisades on Monday, or at the… Read More »Please, Please Mister Freeze
Back on Wednesday, my post explicitly said that there would not be a powder day this weekend. I was wrong, and that happens to all… Read More »Got That Forecast Wrong!
It’s back to winter again this week. There was some short lived winter-like ski conditions this morning, a fog shrouded mountain…and upper mountain parking lots… Read More »December 154th
It was another fine spring day at Alpine Meadows, with temperatures approaching 10-20 degrees above normal. That trend continues all of the way into the… Read More »The Spring Swings
After a very winter-like sneaker powder day yesterday, and a very brisk morning, we are now rebounding right back into spring. Except for the sunniest… Read More »Spring Rebounding
The skiing was not amazing today. But let’s put that into proper perspective. Alpine Meadows closed for the season last season on this date. Yikes!… Read More »Proper Perspective
It’s been another amazing spring day at Alpine Meadows. I’m sitting on the Sun Deck where Joy and Madness is about to take the stage.… Read More »Live From The Sun Deck
We finally got the hard freeze we needed overnight, and that changed everything. It wasn’t such a great thing if you weren’t paying attention to… Read More »The Freeze We Needed…More Snow…And A Non-Answer
After a couple of almost spring like days, today felt like it was January 97th. The forecast called for higher elevation snow today, but when… Read More »A Brief Return To Winter
I could really get used to that sun thing up in the sky. Once again we had fully sunny skies, leading to awesome visibility, slightly… Read More »Sun ‘N Fun
There’s one way to describe the weather we have seen the last two days and that is unpredictable. You go out expecting stormy skies and… Read More »Unpredictable
There’s no April Fool jokes here today. I mean, I guess it’s funny that I have operated all day on three hours of sleep. The… Read More »No Fooling Around