Squaw Valley and the entire Freeskiing community suffers a devastating loss as news of 29 year old Pro Freeskier Arne Backstrom’s death begins to spread. Early reports state that Arne passed away yesterday after a big mountain skiing accident in the Pisco Peak region of Peru, South America.
Although the Backstrom name has been ingrained in [...]

2010 Results:
Unlimited: Dan Hurley
Women’s Ski: Katherine Lange
Women’s Snowboard: Iris Lazzareschi
Most Creative: Derek Brown
Men’s Snowboard: Spencer Cordovan
Overall Winner and Skinny Ski Winner: Kyle Crezee
via: unofficialsquaw

Living in Lake Tahoe sometimes requires one to step back and take the rest of the world into account. After all living in such a homogeneous culture I find myself often considering normal what the majority would consider absurd or at very least a bit insane. I raise the point though that sanity is all [...]

This years Cushing Crossing at Squaw Valley turned out to be quite the challenge. Despite the solid week of rain that postponed the annual event, local contestants came out in force to support the pond skim. It seems this years pond crossing turned out to be a bit more challenging due to the steep drop [...]

I grew up in the south east. Mostly Tennessee and Florida, by far the last place you would expect to find a die hard skier… but I managed and in 2000 I found myself moving to Lake Tahoe… the place that I had dreamed about living for most of my life. I read countless articles [...]