Deep snow in California. photo: Andrew Gauthier.
We all know that Tahoe had a banner season in 2010/11. But, how epic was it? How big were the snow totals at ski resorts in Lake Tahoe? We were curious, too so we got the numbers from www.TahoeWeatherDiscussion.com and put ‘em up here for all to see.
All the ski resorts below have snow totals on their websites, except for Alpine, Homewood, Boreal, & Diamond Peak. In those cases TahoeWeatherForecast.com kept a tally of their numbers and added it up for us. If you haven’t checked out this website yet, you need to, it’s the ultimate for Tahoe Weather.
2010/11 TAHOE SKI RESORT SNOW TOTALS:
Alpine Meadows – 852″
Squaw Valley – 810”
Boreal – 803″
Sierra-at-Tahoe – 763″
Sugar Bowl – 750″
Kirkwood – 748″
Northstar – 666” (the mark of the Beast)
Homewood – 650″
Mt. Rose – 547″
Heavenly – 528″
Diamond Peak – 315”
TAHOE SKI RESORTS OPENING FOR 4TH OF JULY:
– Squaw Valley
– Alpine Meadows
– Sugar Bowl (only open 4th of July and only to passholders)
– Kirkwood
Every one of the ski resorts mentioned in this post was above 100% of average for seasonal snowfall.
Boreal was the highest at 201% of normal and Diamond Peak was the lowest at 105% of normal.
Squaw’s average is 450” and this year they were 180% of normal.
Alpine’s average is 450” and they were at 189% this year.
Check out this webpage for the average snowfall and percents per normal of all the ski resorts in this post: TahoeWeatherDiscussion.com