Gondi up from the Owens Valley subsequent to Olancha, 1,500 acre bowl on the good elevation as much as Olancha Peak. 250″ ish of snow and three hours or much less for a great chunk of the LA metro. Slope angles would enable a ton of newbie and intermediate runs, with some true knowledgeable excessive alpine close to treeline.
Give me like $75 mill and downside solved!
(This received’t ever occur, a protracted with issues just like the Sherwins. Mineral King/Disney tried and bought a complete nationwide park created to cease it. Wilderness has been inserted into what Caldot as soon as thought-about doable Sierra crossings, particularly past Onion Valley and Minaret Vista. It goes past easy grasping Nimbyism, a lot of the southern Sierra has seen 50+ years of protections constructed as much as restrict impacts from absolutely the gigantic lots of inhabitants on the coast.
As a skier, yeah… our area may help one other few mountains and few larger cities. However the query of how you can handle the extra hundreds of thousands of people that will present up is one which goes past Alterra, or any city authorities, or Caldot.
You would wish a complete Japanese Sierra improvement plan to make something sizeable work. That prices numerous money and time and power that LA/SF/Sacramento are too busy to care about or spend. Consider it this fashion: for those who constructed hwy 203 as initially supposed to hook up with Fresno, think about the chaos instantly dropped at Mono county. Who’s going to resolve that? The dearth of a solution is why June and Mammoth and the jap Sierra are what they’re.)
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