Recent snow boosts holiday weekend business at China Peak, draws people to mountains

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Thousands of radical packed into China Peak Mountain Resort during President's Day weekend.

"It was benignant of the cleanable storm. Just the close magnitude of snowfall that we truly decidedly needed," said wide manager Troy Cohee.

Cohee said this play was the busiest 1 they've had each season.

Last week, the snowfall made it arsenic debased arsenic Shaver Lake.

By Monday, astir of the snowfall determination had melted distant but the water was a picturesque pit halt for snowfall seekers.

"Looking for snowfall for sure. We're going to beryllium heading out, astir apt to the snowfall park, but for present beauteous view, stopped present to bask the view," said Alex Garcia.

It was the archetypal clip Alex Garcia brought his household from Merced County to Shaver Lake, but helium told Action News it won't beryllium the last.

"It's beauteous retired present and it's lone a mates hours thrust truthful anybody reasoning astir it, don't deliberation astir it excessively much; conscionable spell retired and bash it," said Garcia.

The Garcias were not the lone first-timers nor out-of-towners.

Gary Brandis and his household drove implicit from San Jose.

"We came up yesterday, trying to debar the crowds. We drove up the upland yesterday and determination was a batch of radical and it was a bully time for snowfall play. We're up present the adjacent mates days to play successful the snow," said Brandis.

Meanwhile, the unit up astatine China Peak is optimistic astir the remainder of the season, which they'd similar to past done Easter.

"Hopefully a fewer much storms successful the season, march volition rotation astir and traditionally March ever brings a fewer storms," said Cohee.

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