(Christopher Reynolds / Los Angeles Times)Like me, they’d arrived in time to savor the sight of the Sierra under all the snow that fell in late December. (Christopher Reynolds / Los Angeles Times)But in winter, the northern part of that loop is closed to cars. As for the June Mountain ski area, its 1,500 accessible acres make it much smaller than Mammoth Mountain (with whom it shares a corporate parent). (Christopher Reynolds / Los Angeles Times)It’s fun to imagine that rustic, semi-remote places like this never change, but of course they do, for better and worse. (Christopher Reynolds / Los Angeles Times)“You get up to the lake and you hear the ice cracking.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 29, 2026 20:39 UTC