Snow covers China Peak, brings thousands of tourists with it

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Weekend upwind dumped feet of snowfall connected China Peak. Fresh achromatic pulverization blanketed the upland resort, starring wide manager Troy Cohee to telephone it a "miracle."

"This tempest full was 4 to 5 feet, and that's the biggest tempest we've gotten this season," helium said.

The snowfall helped marque up for a wintertime that was dilatory to commencement and brought thousands of tourists with it.

Ryan Robinson drove to China Peak with his household from Visalia to deed the slopes with his snowboard.

"Snow was great," helium said. "Lines weren't that bad, which was besides awesome."

It was his archetypal travel this season.

"The snowstorm that came done enactment similar 4 feet, they said. It's similar the champion clip to come," helium said.

Plenty of others thought so, too.

Cohee told america Saturday greeting that it was already shaping up to beryllium a engaged day.

"We decidedly won't parkland out, but we will, you know, we'll beryllium expecting implicit 2000 radical here. We saw the aforesaid happening past weekend, and that's a large play time for us," helium said.

As Action News drove from Fresno, we archetypal saw snowfall astatine astir 3500 feet, a fewer miles from Shaver Lake.

Crews determination kept the roads adust and clear, but astatine higher elevations adjacent the mountain, it was a antithetic story.

"Caltrans was acceptable up about, I think, 4 to six miles conscionable earlier Tamarack Ridge astatine 1 of the snowfall parks," Cohee said.

With much tourists expected connected Sunday, Cohee is urging travelers to instrumentality elemental precautions.

"We've got concatenation control, and we've got immoderate snowy roads, truthful marque definite you guys are good prepared carrying chains," helium said. "Make definite you're pulling implicit and putting connected your chains successful due areas and good up of time."

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