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Olympic Valley, California in the United States is a unincorporated community located in Placer County northwest of Tahoe City along Highway 89 on the banks of the Truckee River near Lake Tahoe. Because it is the home of the Squaw Valley Ski Resort, the community is commonly known as Squaw Valley. It was the site of the 1960 Winter Olympics.
The Squaw Valley Ski Resort in Olympic Valley, California is one of the largest and most famous ski areas in the United States and was the site of the 1960 Winter Olympics. It is the second largest ski area at Lake Tahoe, (after Heavenly), boasting highly advanced chairlifts, (High speed quads and High speed six packs), as well as the only Funitel outside of Europe. Because of the resort's popularity, the entire community of Olympic Valley is commonly referred to as Squaw Valley.
The resort operates year-round, offering various activities in both the winter and the summer, including an ice skating rink, a movie theater, horseback riding, a swimming lagoon and spa, and tennis courts.
A scenic cable car (aerial tramway) carries visitors up 2000 vertical feet to the High Camp Bath and Tennis Club. The cars are attached to a fixed point on the suspended cable loop. When one car is at the top of the mountain, the other car is at the bottom.
Alexander Cushing (died August 20, 2006) was the founder and chairman of Ski Corporation, the parent company of the Squaw Valley resort.
Squaw Valley is noted for the annual Squaw Valley writer's conference, which attracts authors from all over the world each August. There are also many summer camps which operate out of the Valley.
Perched atop the Sierra Nevada, with a base of 6,200 feet and spread across 6 peaks and 4,000 acres, Squaw tops out at 9,050 feet above sea level at Granite Chief. With bountiful maritime snowfall --often receiving 40 or more feet in a winter, amounting to snowpack depths of 200+ inches-- and steep, granite-laden terrain, Squaw Valley is a mecca for Big Mountain, or steep, skiing. Legendary cliff and chute-infested areas like The Palisades or The Fingers, have been featured in many ski films, and have likewise attracted a melange of professional and pro-caliber skiers including Shane McConkey, CR Johnson, Ingrid Backstrom, JT Holmes and Scot Schmidt. Since its opening in 1949, Squaw has positioned itself among an A-list of North American Big Mountain Skiing meccas such as Alta, Whistler, Jackson Hole and Crested Butte, combining with its laid-back California culture to earn the moniker "Squallywood".
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