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Alpine Dispatch Manager Eva Graves

Women’s Month Spotlight: Eva Graves, Alpine Dispatch Manager

Read an interview with Eva Graves, the Alpine Dispatch Manager and Mountain Operations Administrative Assistant as part of our Women's Month Spotlight.
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Women’s Month Spotlight: Sidney Ossenfort, Grooming

Read an interview with Sidney Ossenfort, a Groomer in the Alpine Grooming department at Palisades Tahoe, as part of our International Women’s Month Spotlight.
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Angie Hong standing in front of the Gondola's top terminal

Women’s Month Spotlight: Angie Hong, Lift Maintenance

Read an interview with Angie Hong, a Lift Technician Apprentice in the Lift Maintenance department at Palisades, as part of our International Women's Month Spotlight. ...
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Where Skiers are Made

This is the home mountain of Olympians, world champions, and the stars of some of your favorite ski movies. That doesn’t just happen by coincidence. ...
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The Hall-Pittman family at the 1960 Winter Olympics. Tarea Hall Pittman (far right) was the Western US Regional Director for the NAACP and played a key role in Nevada's fight for civil rights. Courtesy Tarea Hall and William Pittman Papers, MS 46, African American Museum and Library, Oakland, CA

Legends of Tahoe: The 1960 Winter Olympics and the Struggle for Civil Rights

The 1960 Winter Olympics marked an important first: because of the Games, it was the first time Reno was integrated as a city. While the ...
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An aerial view of Olympic Valley circa 1945.

Legends of Tahoe: Connecting Boreal to Lake Tahoe for a Ski Circus

The construction of the Base to Base Gondola has long been a dream. For nearly a century, local resort leaders have imagined a European-style ski ...
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Troy Caldwell freeskiing on a powder day.

The Dream Comes True For Troy Caldwell

A former freestyle skier named Troy Caldwell made history when, in the 1980s, he bought a huge chunk of rugged, mountainous terrain between Alpine Meadows ...
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The Name Change, Part Three: The Resort’s New Name

Renaming a business with 70 years of history is no easy task. It’s not something anyone here at the resort had experience in, and it’s ...
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The Name Change, Part Two: The S- Word

In 2020, we made the commitment to do something that we should have done long ago: We changed our name from Sq**w Valley to Palisades ...
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Herb Magnuson sits outside his home in Olympic Valley.

Long-Time Valley Resident & Community Member Herb Magnuson

In April of 2021, Olympic Valley lost one of its earliest property owners and part-time residents, Herb Magnuson. Herb ended up being a very active ...
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