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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.
EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired U.S. and Canadian rights to the edge-of-your-seat documentary thriller Buried: The 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche, a “gripping account of the ...
This mountain's name remembers ski patroller Jeffery James Smith (1954–1982), commonly known as "Jake", and in honor of the other six persons who also died in an avalanche at the Alpine Meadows Ski Area on March 31, 1982. [5] This landform's toponym was officially adopted in 1985 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. [5]
A 2020 avalanche at Alpine Meadows killed one skier and seriously injured another a day after a major storm. Another avalanche at the resort in March 1982 killed seven people, including several ...
Another avalanche in 2020 at the Alpine Meadows ski resort, part of Palisades Tahoe, killed a 34-year-old skier and seriously injured another. In a lawsuit that was settled in 2022, ...
Lewes avalanche; deadliest avalanche in the United Kingdom: United Kingdom: 1836: 72 7: Alpine Meadows (northern California) United States: March 1982: Sankt Anton am Arlberg (Wolfsgruben avalanche) Austria: 1988: 2003 Connaught Creek Valley avalanche: Canada: 2003: Western Tatras: Slovakia: 2005: 76 6: Oravska Magura: Slovakia: 1968: 1970 ...
A 2020 avalanche at Alpine Meadows killed one skier and seriously injured another a day after a major storm. Another avalanche at the resort in March 1982 killed seven people, including several ...
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). [1] Rock Beaver Dam on Bear Creek, Jan. 2011 (Alpine Meadows, California)