Sierra Summit Ski Resort

NSAA Awards California Ski Executive with Lifetime Achievement Award

Snow Summit was launched in 1952 by Kun stepfather, Tommi Tyndall, but no snow in sunny, semi-arid Southern California, the ski area struggling to stay afloat in the early days. With a large snowmaking system installed in 1964, Snow Summit has been generating about 500,000 skier and snowboarder visits per annum by the late 1970s.

The company has purchased and made improvements to Sierra Summit in the Western Sierra Mountains in 1982 and operated the region until 2010 when it was sold.

With the advent of snowboarding in the late 1980s, Snow Summit has led the United States in the development of parks.Perhaps the most important contribution Kun industry has been developing the manual first park land to the California Metal Trades Association (CSIA) in 1998 which led to his admission, initial efforts NSAA Resource Guide Terrain Park et seq.

In 2002, the company bought his next door neighbor, Bear Mountain, a resort of similar size. Both areas are now marketed together as "Big Bear Mountain Resorts, which has 20 lifts, 100 percent snowmaking and generate approximately 750,000 to 800,000 visits per year.

Kun has served on the board of AMSC since the late 1970s and also served on the NSAA Board from 1985 to 1989. The 2011 NSAA Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented May 6 at the NSAA National Convention and Exposition in Carlsbad, California

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www.sierrasummit.com

(559) 233-2500

(559) 233-3330 Snow Phone

If the mass migration weekend in Tahoe ski resorts makes you want to stay home, think about Sierra Summit Mountain Resort. Located above his own beautiful Sierra lake, Huntington Lake, the station of 1200 acres 65 miles northeast of Fresno Highway 168 offers a lot of great skiing and riding. He can be reached in about half past three in the area of ​​Monterey Bay and South Bay Area and is rarely crowded.

In terms of land, it is a very valid alternative to rival many resorts average size Tahoe. With a base elevation of 7,030 feet and almost 1,700 vertical feet, it's not small potatoes. There are eight lifts serving the field for all levels (28% low intermediate, 33% intermediate, 28% advanced), including a 2.5-mile beginner trail and three terrain parks and a halfpipe. With reasonably priced lift ticket ($ 50 adult all day, peak season), it is perfect for families and skiers soul.

Originally opened as China Peak way back in 1959, where Sierra Summit on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada above between Yosemite and Sequoia national parks, it exposes the wet storms that drop charges snow (an average of 350 inches per year) because they increase rapidly in the Central Valley in the high mountains of the East. This produces a deep, long-term basis and making the conditions ideal spring.

A short hike to the summit of the China Peak (8,709 feet) rewards skiers and riders with stunning views of Lake Huntington, where the conditions are met, new marks on the back.

This season, the resort added a new learning area with magic carpet lift for beginners, additional snowmaking across the mountain, and new features in the famous park toll ground. For those who like to enjoy first tracks, the station will turn the ski earlier, at 8:30 am on weekends and peak holidays.

The Sierra Summit Inn, just steps from the ski lifts, offers a variety of rooms and suites. After a day on the slopes you can relax in the bar Buckhorn or enjoy a casual meal in the dining Summit.

Mt Rose: High, dry and stiff

www.mtrose.com

1-800-SKI-ROSE

Mt last year. Rose had by far the best conditions in early season, with more than double the amount of snow other Tahoe resorts. Attribute that to its high base elevation (8260 feet) and the ability of the summit, it embraces woo passing clouds hanging around to take a shower or two before heading east into the Great dusty.

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