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The big Sugar Pine tree in the Girl Scout camp has been cut down. How sad. I remember when there were plaques on it! I believe it was the 2nd largest.
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That’s good to see. People have been using it, without permission for years. We had noticed over the last two winters there was a lot of clearing and burning on the property. Then they put up a bunch of very threatening “no trespassing” signs.
Good that it become “official” again and give people a safer alternative than just pulling off the side of the highway and closer than the snow parks up the road. Too bad it’s not till next year. Hopefully it will be affordable, too. Otherwise people will just continue to pull over on Highway 4.Someone Please post some photos of the snow this weekend. It was such a soft winter last year that I never saw any. So looking forword to a normal season this year.
Met a man in Half Moon Bay whose brother owns a place in Big Trees, and who told him that the entire Dorrington complex (Hotel/annex, the old Tolferson Market, and the Lube Room) have been purchased by someone who wants to invest some time and money and get it going again. I can’t find anything on this board about it, but has anyone heard anything? It’s just SAD to see everything closed down (I remember when the Lube Room also pumped GAS out front!)
Stuck in the lowlands at the moment…
My wife’s father built their cabin in Snowshow Springs back in 1960, when she was about ten years old. A fellow name of Isom ran the bar in the hotel, and the original cabin builders in Snowshoe would often meet up after a hard day’s work for some cold Anchor Steam beer on tap (or so my father-in-law used to tell me). I started coming up in 1978, and she told me the stories about the Dorrington Hotel being haunted, but it all sounded like so many campfire “ghost stories” that were designed to afford cheap entertainment in the form of scaring children half to death while feeding them burnt marshmallows and s’mores. Sigh… those were the days. :o)
It would have to be on a Saturday… It’s the only day I get to close down and winterize the cabin (getting older, don’t go up in the winter much any more). But we sure do need the snow.
I learned to ski there also. My parents had a cabin across the street on Beatrice RD, so it was pretty convenient. I have a place in Big Trees Village now and ski at Bear. Love it.
ScottI didn’t learn to ski there (or anywhere else) but we used to go there and do some “tubing” years ago. Glad to hear it will be reopening.
Read the attached article about Cottage Springs re-opening the sledding hill. This is good news. I have fond memories at Cottage Springs. It is pretty much where I learned how to ski. My parents would take me there instead of all the way up to Bear Valley.
http://www.uniondemocrat.com/News/Local-News/Planned-Calaveras-snowplay-area-OKd
I heard concrete is much more expensive due to the sub base of aggregate that is needed and steel rebar. About 7 bucks a square foot. I am sticking with gravel until I get tired of shoveling snow.
We have a smaller 110 volt hot tub (190 gallons). We keep it at 100 degrees since that is the default if the power goes out. Costs about $20 a month to run it and we leave it at 100 degrees 24/7. We used to run it at a 102 degrees but every time there’s a power glitch, it goes back to 100 degrees.
I keep my tub at 102 throughout the winter in case there is a power outage. That way the tub won’t begin to freeze the water in the long power outage.
