Squaw Valley USA 2009-10 Season Wrap-Up
Experience Date: Winter 2009-10
Stars: 5 million trillion
Squaw Valley USA
I spent every weekend from February to April at Squaw Valley USA learning to snowboard.
As such, I didn’t spend any time blogging or preparing specific posts for various Squaw establishments such as Blue Coyote Sports Grill, Trilogy Spa or High Camp (which all kick ass). I just played and played and played.
So, today I put together the below list of my favorite things about Squaw Valley USA and all the Squaw amenities I happened upon.
In no particular order, I love:
- Living 20 minutes from Truckee, 45 from Squaw … hop on the freeway at North McCarren and GO.
- Getting to Squaw late on a Saturday, still finding excellent parking near Far East chairlift and being on the mountain within minutes of arrival
- The huge gondola buggies (Funitel as they call it at Squaw) and resulting short lines
- Bluebird days
- Hella-snowy days
- That biggie Squaw chair! Where will it be next?
- The onion rings at Blue Coyote
- Tailgating
- Broken Arrow
- Huge open bowls
- Browsing Tait’s Boardshop
- Hearing various European tourist accents
- Solitude’s fluffy snow, little jumps and trees – perfect building a novice boarder’s “skills”
- Tailgating
- Never having to get bussed from a faraway parking lot (ahem, Northstar)
- Amazing views of Lake Tahoe
- Deciding what terrain to board next and stating “Surely we’ll go to Shirley”
- The weirdo cable car operators and their perfectly memorized schpeel
- Cheap beer and food at Dave’s Deli
- Tailgating
- Clif bar, Stride gum, Girl Powder and all the other vendors that gave away free samples of good stuff
- High Camp swimming lagoon and spa people-watching
- Amazing days spent with great friends
- Couples massage at Trilogy Spa (and free champagne)
- Really, really, really, really comfy beds at the Village hotel
- Excellent medical staff at the on-site Truckee Tahoe Medical Group (subsequent appointments to my Orthopedic specialist confirmed they popped my shattered radius right back in to place…no surgery needed!)
- The corn-on-the cob stand, classic – and I don’t even like corn
- Yummy hamburgers at The Dining Court in Olympic Plaza
- KT-22
- Steeps
- My amazing snowboarding mentor and “coach” Matt Zander
- Spending May through November discussing, planning and looking forward to next season at Squaw with my buds…
Boarder Grrrl
See ya next winter, Squaw.
With Love,
Crystal Rose
