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Special to the Sierra Sun when a 3,200-foot deadly avalanche swept through the resort, killing several people.
Now, director and producers Jared Drake and Steven Siig are ready to help the survivors and community tell their story in their upcoming documentary “Buried: The 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche.” The film, which recently won the Mountainfilm 2021 Audience Choice Award, will be released in theaters this September.
Drake moved to Alpine Meadows with his wife seven years ago, and began researching the avalanche shortly afterward.
“One of our neighbors knocked on our door at one point and was like, ‘You guys moved to Alpine, you gotta familiarize yourself with this story and this event and what this place is.’”
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The deadly avalanche that came to define a community in Lake Tahoe
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The snow came down fast and didn’t stop for days. Inch by inch, then foot by foot, the late-season storm arrived with the force of 120 mph wind gusts and buried the mountains in a sea of white.
March 31, 1982, was the fifth day of the storm. Conditions were so unrelenting, Alpine Meadows Ski Area shut down for the entire day. The resort was struggling to manage the 7 feet of snow that had fallen, while the storm’s onslaught continued.
Alpine Meadows is marked by its terrain rocky cirques and bowls spill off the crest of the Sierra Nevada, bottoming out in a hanging valley that sits at 7,000 feet. The same features that make it a world-class destination for skiing also make it prone to avalanches: heavy snow and steep slopes exposed to the elements.