squaw

But once you know what you’re doing, nothing in Tahoe comes close to Alpine Meadows and Squaw Valley.

We found our fuse from avalanche fuse whilst on ski team at Squaw and Alpine in Tahoe...

Hell, the travel time Google is showing from Squaw right now is 3 hours and 9 minutes.

On top of it all, Squaw Valley - the set location of all my childhood ski heroes - is just three hours away.

Words like teepee and squaw don't really qualify as loans in my eyes.

When I was 38 I completely broke my left radius bone into multiple pieces at the wrist end while snowboarding at Squaw Valley.

I’ll only go to Squaw on a non-holiday weekday with new snow.

I think the graduate program at Dead Squaw College, IA should close its doors today instead of keeping its head above water with foreign students.

> Squaw is not 3 hours from SF, not even with no traffic (this scenario doesn't really exist) and good weather.

Various words such as 'squaw', 'nigger', 'faggot', 'retard', 'raghead', 'chink', 'kike' (did I miss some whole class of slurs?

The red squaw staid all the forenoon, and toward the middle of the afternoon she went away, O my mother was loth to have her go away, All the week she thought of her, she watch’d for her many a month, She remember’d her many a winter and many a summer, But the red squaw never came nor was heard of there again.

A red squaw came one breakfast-time to the old homestead, On her back she carried a bundle of rushes for rush-bottoming chairs, Her hair, straight, shiny, coarse, black, profuse, half-envelop’d her face, Her step was free and elastic, and her voice sounded exquisitely as she spoke.

The "history is dirty" part may not be totally correct, though: the controversy over squaw may be due to modern hypersensitivity.

Ramos said “squaw” was one of many disparaging terms hurled at his Native American community.

> Adams' men called Vice President Jefferson "a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father."

And in most cases, it's more like "use this all the way to truckee and then drive the last 30 mins to squaw valley"

That Reno to Tahoe drive is still a hike and Heavenly/Squaw/Sierra at Tahoe are decently far apart.

Squaw is not 3 hours from SF, not even with no traffic (this scenario doesn't really exist) and good weather.

I always met far more interesting people in random places in the Valley than skiing at Squaw.