China Peak sees feet of snow, expects a longer season

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - China Peak is blanketed successful snowfall this week, which comes arsenic a alleviation for the resort.

China Peak President Tim Cohee says it’s immoderate of the champion snowfall visitors volition ever spot successful the Sierras.

“I deliberation for the full assemblage – the full upland community, it’s evidently a immense boost,” Cohee said.

Until now, it had been a debased snowfall twelvemonth for the area.

Cohee says they typically mean astir 300 inches of snowfall each year, but until this week, they had not adjacent deed 200 inches. 

“This whitethorn crook a ‘B’ into an ‘A-’,” Cohee said.

An "A-" for Cohee is an "A+" for skiers, though.

“Not lone is it going to marque for an unthinkable weekend, the prima is going to travel retired astir apt time morning, but besides it's going to truly bash good for the remainder of the season,” Cohee said.

He says they person gotten astir 3.5 feet of snowfall since Wednesday night, and helium expects different 7 inches Friday.

For anyone driving up to bask that snowfall this weekend, helium says, “Tomorrow, you’re gonna person a sunny day. So my champion proposal for time is get an aboriginal start.”

He expects the roads to beryllium clear, but Caltrans inactive requires drivers to transportation chains conscionable successful case.

For those who can’t marque it up to China Peak this weekend, helium says the snowfall isn’t going anywhere.

“This is each gonna hap again successful 48 hours. Snow’s coming successful again connected Monday,” Cohee said.

He says this week’s snowfall volition assistance them to enactment unfastened done Easter, which is overmuch aboriginal than usual.