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  2. Palisades Tahoe - Wikipedia

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    Palisades Tahoe is a ski resort in the western United States, located in Olympic Valley, California, northwest of Tahoe City in the Sierra Nevada range. From its founding in 1949, the resort was known as Squaw Valley , but it changed its name in 2021 due to the derogatory connotations of the word " squaw ".

  3. Olympic Valley, California - Wikipedia

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    The Placer County Sheriff's Office and a medical group opened local facilities. In September 1958, the United States Post Office Department began a mail service to the valley via the Tahoe City Post Office. Mail was postmarked "Squaw Village" to avoid confusion with the Fresno County community, where the department was studying reopening a post ...

  4. Washeshu Peak - Wikipedia

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    The Palisades Tahoe ski area is immediately northeast of Washeshu Peak, and the Pacific Crest Trail traverses the western base of the peak. Washeshu or "Wa She Shu" is a transliteration from the Wašišiw people, the original inhabitants of this Lake Tahoe area.

  5. List of Lake Tahoe ski resorts - Wikipedia

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    Comparison table of Lake Tahoe area ski resorts Resort name State Nearest city Peak elevation Base elevation Vertical drop Skiable acreage Average annual snowfall [1] Number of trails; Palisades Tahoe [2] California: Olympic Valley: 9,050 ft (2,760 m) 6,200 ft (1,900 m) 2,850 ft (870 m) 6,000 acres (2,400 ha) 407 in (1,030 cm) 270 Mammoth ...

  6. Alpine Meadows (ski resort) - Wikipedia

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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).

  7. List of California ski resorts - Wikipedia

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    Palisades Tahoe: Olympic Valley: 9,050 6,200 2,850 3,600 170 29 450" March 2020 [1] Mammoth Mountain: Mammoth Lakes: 11,053 7,953 3,100 3,500 150 25 400" March 2020 [2] Heavenly Mountain Resort: South Lake Tahoe: 10,040 6,567 3,500 4,800 97 28 360" March 2020 [3] Mount Shasta Ski Park: Mount Shasta: 6,866 5,476 1,435 425 32 5 275" March 2020 [4 ...

  8. 1960 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia

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    Squaw Valley, now called Palisades Tahoe, was a struggling ski resort with minimal facilities, which made its selection to host the 1960 Winter Olympics a surprise. [2] [3] Wayne Poulsen and Alexander Cushing were inspired to bid for the Olympics by a newspaper article mentioning that Reno, Nevada, and Anchorage, Alaska, had expressed interest in the Games.

  9. Granite Chief - Wikipedia

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    Granite Chief is a mountain located in the Sierra Nevada near Lake Tahoe. The mountain rises to an elevation of 9,010 feet (2,746 m) and receives consistent heavy snowfall during the winter months. [4] The summit is the highest point in the Granite Chief Wilderness [2] and marks the northwestern boundary of Palisades Tahoe. [5]

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