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Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 38
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Alpine Meadows (ski resort), Alta Sierra Ski Resort, Angora Lakes, Badger Pass Ski Area, Bear Mountain (ski area), Bear Valley (resort), Boreal Mountain Resort, Buckhorn Ski Club, China Peak, Comparison of California ski resorts, Dodge Ridge Ski Area, Donner Ski Ranch, Granlibakken, Heavenly Mountain Resort, Homewood Mountain Resort, June Mountain Ski Area, Kirkwood Mountain Resort, Kratka Ridge, Mammoth Mountain Ski Area, Mountain High, Mount Baldy Ski Lifts, Mount Shasta Ski Park, Mount Waterman, Northstar at Tahoe, Rim Nordic Ski Area, Royal Gorge Cross Country Ski Resort, Sierra-at-Tahoe, Snow Summit, Snow Valley Mountain Resort, Squaw Valley Ski Resort, Sugar Bowl Ski Resort, Tahoe Donner, Tahoe Donner Downhill, White Wolf Mountain. Excerpt: Sugar Bowl is a ski and snowboard area in northern Placer County near Norden, California along the Donner Pass of the Sierra Nevada, approximately 46 mi (74 km) west of Reno, Nevada on Interstate 80, that opened on December 15, 1939. Sugar Bowl is a medium sized ski area in the Lake Tahoe region, and is well known for its long history, significant advanced terrain, high annual snowfall and being one of the closest ski areas to the San Francisco Bay Area. Sugar Bowl's terrain is 17% Beginner, 45% Intermediate and 38% Advanced. Sugar Bowl was founded by Hannes Schroll and a group of individual investors and is one of the few remaining privately owned resorts in the Lake Tahoe area. Sugar Bowl was the first ski area in California to install a chairlift and the first on the west coast to install a gondola lift. The mountain peaks of Mt. Judah and Mt. Lincoln, that eventually became the ski slopes of the Sugar Bowl ski resort, were a part of the American pioneers route, back in the 1800s. A part of the California wagon trail called Roller Pass ran between Mt. Judah and Mt....