Sunday, January 3, 2021

I was absolutely amazed at the amount of people at Bunny Flat on Mt. Shasta one of the days I was there

I suppose if you think of it as Snow play or TV in most people's lives it makes sense. Also, the road is closed this time of year because of snow from there up to Panther Meadows on Mt. Shasta so Everitt Memorial Highway which is paved all the way up past Panther Meadows isn't plowed usually past Bunny Flats pretty much since the old Ski park up past Panther Meadow was destroyed in an Avalanche. When I was young (likely somewhere around 1960) when I was 12 I rode the ski life up to the top of the ridge with both my parents and my five years older male cousin who is now a very successful lawyer in the Los Angeles Area. The ski lift that was destroyed in the avalanche was built around 1959. We went to the Seattle Worlds Fair in 1960 so it is likely then that I rode the ski lift while traveling north from Glendale in the Los Angeles Area then. It was common to have snow at the lift until June or July then before global Warming.

In January of 1978, a massive avalanche destroyed the Green Butte Chair Lift, ending all developed skiing in the area. The MtShasta Ski Park opened in 1985, in a location down the mountain in order to avoid catastrophes like the 1978 avalanche.

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Sep 20, 2019 — In 1973 a second chairlift was added on the East side of Ski Shasta. The area stumbled along until January 1978, when an avalanche destroyed ...
Feb 18, 2019 — Wall of heavy snow: '100-year avalanche' cascades down Mt. Shasta ... It crashed a four-mile trail of destruction, falling 5,000 feet in ... The mountain received a massive amount of snow last week — the city of Mount Shasta got 2 feet ... Skiing didn't return to the mountain until MtShasta Ski Park opened in ...

However, the ski area had often been in financial trouble over the next two decades, and a massive avalanche in January 1978 which destroyed the main chairlift ... 

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