Google rolls in the white stuff

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.