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Custom Boot Fitter & Hardgoods Sales Associate Entering his twenty-sixth year as a custom boot fitter, and his sixteenth at Granite Chief, there's about nothing Darren can't fix when it comes to ski boots. Specializing in fore, aft, and lateral boot balancing, Darren has an uncanny eye for how to improve your boot alignment. Darren also builds custom...

Red Dog Forest Thinning Project from Squaw Valley | Alpine Meadows on Vimeo. If you happen to be in Squaw Valley this past November there is a good chance you heard the chainsaws, or saw the helicopter landing massive trees in the Squaw Valley parking lot. What was going on exactly? It was the Red Dog Forest Thinning Project where...

Mountain Ops | Snowmakers from Squaw Valley | Alpine Meadows on Vimeo. It's that time of the year again. The temperatures have plummeted, storm are moving towards the Tahoe-Truckee Region, and Squaw has fired up their snowmaking machines and are preparing the mountain for opening day. This year Squaw Valley has released their first installment of their new video series...

by Melissa Siig Squaw Valley Village, Calif.,'s new expansion project, which covers 100 acres adjacent to the existing village, would quadruple the number of residential and tourist accommodation units at the ski area's base. The expansion is part of a long-term overhaul Squaw's new owner, KSL Capital Partners, have dubbed "The Renaissance," which also includes some $70 million in improvements...

Squaw Conditions Update 12/22 If you haven't been up to the mountain yet this season, you're missing out!  Check out this update from our back shop ski tech Eric Bryant.

When strange and mysterious things happen I'm not one to look to the alignment of celestial planets for answers, but I will tell you that I am having a hard time coming up with explanations for some of the very odd things that are happening in the ski industry. Things so far fetched that the answers must lie in the...