Squaw Ski Blog

Jackie Paaso and fellow Freeride World Tour athletes Maria Kuzma and Aline Bock travel through Austria, Switzerland and Germany for a stop on the tour and a little bit of … Read More

Outside Online recent article sheds light on Why California’s Record Snow Year Is Bad for Kayakers. Too much water! Many runs have become an outright deluges. But not everyone is bumming on the trillions of gallons of H2O poring from the high California peaks. Kyle Dickman explains

You would think kayakers all over would be chomping at the bit after watching record precipitation build up in California—58 feet of snow at Squaw Valley! The reality is, the summer of 2011 may be the worst for high Sierra paddling California has seen in a while. Here’s why.

As we prepare to celebrate the lives of two of the best people to ever call Tahoe home this Thursday, a few of us went up Tallac today to pay … Read More

The Line of the Week Photo’s by Ryan Salm Words by Ryan Salm Riders – Glen Plake and Friends Location – Mt Humphrey’s, Eastern Sierra Every so often you find … Read More

733 inches is good. We’ve all be talking about how much snow we got this season.  And when skiing around Squaw right now, we’re all talking about how much snow … Read More

The dazzling new handle of the highly distinguished Dave’s Deli Water Fountain is looking F-I-N-E, Fine. I’ve been skiing & quaffing dihydrogen monoxide at Squaw Valley incessantly since the Year … Read More

Erich Lindemann shared this link on our Unofficial Networks Facebook Page. “Late 80′s Tahoe/Squallywood legend Damian Sanders went bigger in hard boots and an ironing board than you do with rocker … Read More

I think this is just the way Shane would have wanted it.  Or maybe not. I guarantee you that this kid tore his anal sphincter upon “landing” this. But, I’ve … Read More

photo:  mbaction.com Unofficial has been doing some intense investigating this past week about the potential non-opening of Squaw’s bike park. Namely, we’ve been riding chairlifts and jabbering with random people. … Read More

This summer Unofficial Networks will be heading down to the Southern Cone of South America to build UnofficialAndes.com, the definitive resource for skiing and traveling in South America. Unofficial’s first trip to the Andes mountains in 2007 opened our eyes to the majesty and beauty of  this wild mountain range. Las year a documentary film 180 Degrees South followed Jeff Johnson as he retraces the epic 1968 journey of his heroes Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins to Patagonia. Yvon Chouinard is the founder of Patagonia apparel and author of Let My People Go Surfing, a must read.  

High Fives Foundations infamous TRAINS event. Once started as a fun an exciting 540 contest that has now grown into one of the most amazing competitions in skiing today. Athletes with a tremendous amount of talent following very close to one another in search of a smile. Who ever said competing can’t be fun.

Squaw’s season pass holder party was pretty sweet yesterday.  If you are fortunate enough to have a Gold Pass, you got a raffle ticket, two drink tickets, a T-shirt, and … Read More

In response to Say Good-Bye to Granite Chief for the Season | Squaw Spring Operations

So you are telling me that you would rather take the cable car up to high camp, ride Links and then get on a slow triple chair instead of walking up to KT and getting 1500′ vertical drop of sustained pitch off a highspeed quad? That makes no sense. Granite is a 45 minute commute to lower angle skiing with fewer laps. And I don’t want to hear anything about this elevation BS. Wax your skis why don’t ya. What if Bowling Andy is right and we get “Mayhem 2011″. Don’t you want to be riding the mothership?

Before I even start I want to give credit to all the information here to www.tahoeweatherdiscussion.com. The UC Berkeley (the Greatest University on Earth) Central Sierra Snow Lab is reporting 599 … Read More

The loss of our close friend and skiing pal, Kip Garre, is really starting to sink in, and it sucks. Kip lived a life of passion and adventure on a … Read More

Last week I had the pleasure of skiing with High Fives Winter Empowerment Athlete, Landon McGauley, at Squaw Valley. If you are unfamiliar with who Landon is you should check … Read More

Attention:  This article was written by Miles Clark and it expresses his opinions on how Squaw should operate this Spring .  He is clearly a KT hater and for some … Read More

Cody’s season ending line. photos & words by Cody Townsend. Last week on my last day of shooting with MSP in Terrace, BC, I sent one of the larger cliffs … Read More

The 22’ walled Super Pipe that Red Bull’s premiere athletes have been training on will be open to the public beginning tomorrow through May 8th.  The pipe will be closed … Read More

Squaw Valley lost an incredible skier and friend today.  Kip Garre passed away this week on Split Mountain in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California along with his girlfriend Alison Kreutzen. … Read More

Tahoe skiers and riders are absolutely killing it on the Eastside right now. We saw a brief window of fun surf at Sand Harbor this week, and the high elevation … Read More

Photo’s by Ryan Salm Words by Robb Gaffney Riders – Robb Gaffney & John Morrison Location – Eastern Sierra’s 5:15am April 17th, my Iphone alarm sounded out the blues riff … Read More

  This is a sea otter having a spaz attack. I passed the final test towards becoming a full blown Esquimaux today. I snuck up on this sea otter and … Read More

James Balog built a name for himself by capturing the “clash between civilization and our natural world.” chasingice.squarespace.com At some point along his journey James got obsessed with glaciers and wanted … Read More