Ever wonder how many vertical feet you are getting in a good day of skiing at Squaw Valley? Well, now you can keep track of your vertical feet with the simple to use Squaw Valley Vert Calculator. The calculator was developed by daily Squaw skier and Unofficial friend Ed Hubbard. It works by plugging in the number of laps you made on each chair. The calculator then works the numbers and gives you your total vert. Pretty cool!

Thanks Ed,

Squaw Valley Vert Calculator
enter # of laps on each chair below

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Starting March 30 Squaw will be offering a Spring Ski Pass for just $179. The pass will be valid 7 days a week till the end of the season.

Here is more info on the pass from FirstTacksOnline.com

Squaw Valley USA is enjoying an undeniably epic season (pre-March snowfall total is 394 inches) and it’s far from over. Spring skiing at Squaw renders bluebird powder days, freshly groomed corn, the Mainline Super Park and the Swimming Lagoon & Spa at High Camp, el 8200’. With Squaw’s Spring Pass, skiers and riders can take on the Lake Tahoe-area ski resort’s slopes for $179.

Spring Pass purchases count towards the purchase of any full adult, youth or senior 2008/2009 season pass. The Spring Pass is valid seven days a week starting March 30, and is on sale now at Squaw Valley’s Special Tickets office.

Squaw Valley USA’s Spring Pass includes free use of the Swimming Lagoon and Spa at High Camp, el 8200′. Squaw is scheduled to remain open into May, conditions permitting.

Spring Passes are on sale now at Squaw Valley’s Special Tickets office. Passes may be purchased any time between now and the end of the season. If purchased prior to March 30, purchaser will have their photo taken and pass produced for Will Call on March 30. For more information on the $179 Spring Pass call Squaw’s Special Tickets office at (530) 452-7123.

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Here is a good look at The Ice Goddess. The Ice Goddess is a classic Squaw Valley drop of 30 feet + or -.

Nice shot guys!

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Daylight Savings has pushed back the time it takes to soften the snow. Most south and east facing slopes are now getting soft around 10:30 or so. By 1:00pm most of the mountain is nice a soft. Smoothes has been out of this world with some of the best corn I have ever skied. No shit.

On days like this Squaw should really push to keep terrain open till 5:00.

A dramatic weather change will take place tonight and into tomorrow.

NOAA WEATHER STATEMENT

THE UNSEASONABLY WARM WEATHER IN THE EASTERN SIERRA AND WESTERN NEVADA THE PAST WEEK WILL CHANGE DRAMATICALLY BEGINNING TONIGHT ASA STRONG COLD FRONT APPROACHES THE AREA. A SURGE OF PACIFIC MOISTURE AHEAD OF THIS FRONT AND AHEAD OF A STRONG JET STREAM WILLMOVE INTO THE AREA TONIGHT. SHOWERS WILL BEGIN THIS EVENING IN THE NORTHERN SIERRA AND WILL SPREAD EAST OVERNIGHT…MAINLY NORTH OF INTERSTATE 80. SNOW LEVELS ABOVE 7000 FEET TODAY WILL DROP TO LAKE LEVEL BY THURSDAY MORNING. ONLY LIGHT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED ABOVE 7000 FEET THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING.

WINDY CONDITIONS WILL ALSO DEVELOP EARLY THURSDAY MORNING ANDINCREASE THROUGH THE DAY ON THURSDAY AS THE FRONT NEARS. WINDGUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE LIKELY IN THE CENTRAL SIERRA AND WESTERN NEVADA…WITH GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH POSSIBLE IN WIND PRONE AREAS. WIND GUSTS OVER THE SIERRA RIDGES ARE FORECAST TO INCREASE TO 80 MPH ON THURSDAY. WINDS WILL DIMINISH THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY AS THE FRONT PUSHES SOUTH.

SNOW LEVELS WILL DROP TO ALL VALLEY FLOORS BY FRIDAY AS THE COLDFRONT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. A COLD AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILLREMAIN IN PLACE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY BRINGING PERIODS OF LIGHT TOMODERATE SNOW OR SNOW SHOWERS. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS WILL VARYACROSS THE SIERRA DUE TO THE SHOWERY NATURE OF THE SNOW…HOWEVERSOME AREAS ABOVE 7000 FEET MAY SEE 6 TO 12 INCHES NEW SNOW FROMTHURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. HIGH TEMPERATURES ON THE VALLEY FLOORSWILL DROP INTO THE 50S THURSDAY AND FRIDAY AND INTO THE 40S OVERTHE WEEKEND…WHILE TEMPERATURES IN THE SIERRA WILL REMAIN IN THE

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Lots of Sun and loads of soft snow is making for some great skiing on all South and East facing slopes. There were quite a few poeple on the hill yesterday but today is a different story with few skiers and lots of open space.

Highlights: GCP, VIP’s, East Face Gully, B. Arrow, Resort Chair (just to name a few)

I have the next 3 days off so if anyone wants to make some turns drop me an email at Tim@unofficialSquaw.com.

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Video posted on Youtube on February 27, 2008 by jbowpow

 Drove up to Squaw for a quick ski day with my Dad 2 days after a big storm. Everything was skied out and already firm, but luckily we were able to find a couple patches of fresh pow.

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Here is a video by skichemist of some Unofficial buddies skiing Broken Arrow on a nice warm afternoon. Sadly I dislocated my shoulder in the park on the way down with the guys so no footage of me but I give my unofficial word that this video will entertain.

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Satski is an interactive GPS mapping device that works in much the same way as road map GPS devices. However, Satski is designed to work for skiers. It uses trail maps to show you where you are in relation to the resort as well as giving you your speed, distance traveled and other cool info. As of right now Satski will only work at a handful of European resorts (Tignes, Val d’Isère, Courchevel, Méribel, Val Thorens, La Plagne, Les Arcs, St Anton and Verbier) but Satski is looking to branch out to other resorts around the world in the years to come. Here is some more info from wired.com.

The Satski is GPS for statistic fiends. Any handheld GPS unit would do on the slopes, but the Satski has two advantages for the affluent skier. First, at £1500 ($3100) it’s sufficiently expensive to match your other custom kit. Second, it’ll give you detailed information on speed, distance covered, and altitude, with a replay option to playback the day’s run.

You can also plot a course, although speeding down the piste while peering at a screen strikes us as somewhat dangerous.

It seems that Satski take the replay function very seriously. If you opt to rent the box instead of buying it (around £28 or $60 per day), you can ask for a CD-ROM (how retro!) with the day’s details:

The CD-ROM will work in any Windows PC and shows a “movie” replay of your day’s skiing. You will see yourself effectively being “tracked” around the lifts and pistes as well as all the relevant statistics and a profile of each piste skied.

Exciting stuff! Other features include MP3 player, spam (euphemistically renamed “Après Ski Promotions”), games (Horace Goes Skiing?) and a list of emergency numbers. See the website for the list of resorts currently offering the Satski. Info provided by blog.wired.com

Official website - www.satski.com

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The skiing this weekend was Shit. Lots of people and really firm conditions. However, the weekend is over, the people are gone and the sun is out in full force.

Conditions should continue to improve throughout the week. If we are lucky a nice corn cycle will set in and provide us with great spring conditions later in the week.

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Unofficial Youtube Channel has hit 1,000 views with over 22,000 video view.

Thanks for all the support guys!

Here is one of our most popular video from las season.

Location: The Palisades

Skier: Mattias Sullivan

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