Returning to the original topic: L.A. Times story today about June Mt. and its local economy http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me ... california .
Late in the article Mammoth CEO Rusty Gregory was quoted: Still, he [Rusty] kept alive the possibility that June Mountain would have to close for good if the community didn't get behind plans to build as many as 1,000 hotel and housing units on 90 acres across from the ski area.
Without virtually tripling the lodging in June Lake, the area ? with limited snow-making capacity and a relatively low elevation ? would continue to be a marginal operation, he warned. "Failure," he told residents, "is nipping at our heels very closely."
Note that this is a more critical view of June Mt. than Rusty expressed back at the NASJA press conference in 1999, though even then he identified June's main problem as "no bed base."
Late in the article Mammoth CEO Rusty Gregory was quoted: Still, he [Rusty] kept alive the possibility that June Mountain would have to close for good if the community didn't get behind plans to build as many as 1,000 hotel and housing units on 90 acres across from the ski area.
Without virtually tripling the lodging in June Lake, the area ? with limited snow-making capacity and a relatively low elevation ? would continue to be a marginal operation, he warned. "Failure," he told residents, "is nipping at our heels very closely."
Note that this is a more critical view of June Mt. than Rusty expressed back at the NASJA press conference in 1999, though even then he identified June's main problem as "no bed base."