El Niño bringing California a big snow season
Joseph Serna and
Veronica Rocha Contact Reporters
The last two years of drought have been tough for Lincoln Kauffman and others in the Northern California skiing business.
Kauffman, general manager of the 550-acre Donner Ski Ranch just north of Lake Tahoe, said a lack of snow had dramatically curtailed the ski season, sometimes to just a few weeks. Last year, the Donner slopes were open for only 44 days of skiing, Kauffman said.
But on Monday, as the first flakes from a storm forecast to blanket the whole Sierra Nevada fell outside Kauffman's window, he said there wasn't just snow in the air, but optimism — the kind no one has dared to feel in years.
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