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January 19, 2005 12:13 PM PST

Google rolls in the white stuff

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If you're searching for Google employees this week, they've hit the slopes in Lake Tahoe for an annual company romp in the snow.

Fresh powder, spa treatments and run of the Olympic-grade moguls of the Squaw Valley ski resort await Google's 2,000-plus employees from the Bay Area, who will pack as many as five hotels in the region. The Resort at Squaw Creek, with 404 rooms, commands $294 a night and is busy preparing for the onslaught of Googlers.

Thursday is the grand celebration night for newly wealthy staffers, whose company's $1.9 billion initial public offering netted hundreds if not thousands of millionaires, on paper at least. Party tents, bands and catered food will stretch out across the typically car-packed and snow- or sludge-filled parking lot of central Squaw Valley. "It's not a typical weekend up here," said one employee of the central reservation group.

The company has even hired a videographer to film a Warren Miller-esque ski flick of various employees carving up the bumps.

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