The June Mountains ski area is a winter resort in the Sierra Nevada East Mountains, located near June Lake, southeast of Yosemite National Park.
June Mountain, like its current neighbors and owners, Mammoth Mountain Ski Area, has traditionally been popular with skiers from Southern California, partly because of the relative ease of winter car access compared to Lake Tahoe resorts, which are traditionally more accessible to residents Northern California. It is also popular with locals, elementary and secondary school skiing, and racing teams in the surrounding small towns of Mono County, many of which rely on resorts for most of their winter tourism base.
June Mountain hosted the 2006 Mountaineering Race Series and the ski and snowboard section of the California Winter Games 2006 in March 2006.
The June Mountain also offers a chair lift to the chalet throughout the summer and contains hiking trails and other beautiful features accessible throughout the summer.
On June 21, 2012, Mammoth Mountain and Starwood Capital Group announced that they will close Mount June for the summer and winter of 2012-2013, after 50 years of continuous operation. An active citizen movement emerged in response, raising concerns about the prospects of maintaining local communities if the mountain closes. With a new strategy to finally invest in snowmaking, chairlift, and marketing, Mount June reopens for the 2013-2014 season.
In 2014, Mammoth Mountain purchased Bear Mountain and Snow Summit for $ 38 million. In 2017, Mammoth Resorts announced its sale by Starwood to a partnership of Aspen Skiing Company and KSL Capital Partners, later named Alterra Mountain Company.
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Lift ski
Mount June operates 7 ski lifts, 2 quad high speed, 4 double, and 1 person for beginners. In 1996, Doppelmayr strengthened two high-speed quads, introducing new grips and other technological improvements. Most of the double chairs are built by Riblet and are installed by Lift Engineering (Lift Yan). J1 seats, double chairs, bring skiers and snowboarders from lower ticket offices to the June Meadows Chalet where most of the facilities the resort has to offer are located. From the chalet, motorists can subdue a challenging front-facing resort back to the lower ticket offices and parking spaces or proceed to the more intermediate upper mountains. J6 seats, high speed quad lifts, provide direct access to the summit of Mount Pelangi and a variety of middle lanes. Other lift options from the chalet are J2 seats leading to Stew Pot Slims, where food and drinks are available, and grant skiers and snowboarders access to smaller ones from two terrain parks on the mountain and a 22-foot superpipe. From the top of the seat J2, J4 seats, and seat J7. J4 seats also lead to the summit of Mount Pelangi while J7 seats go to the top of Mount June and provide access to some of the more iconic trails on the mountain beside the largest terrain park found in the resort. Total lift capacity at Mount June is 10,000 rides per hour.
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Mountains
The June Mountain ski area consists of two mountains, Mount Pelangi, with a height of 10,040 feet (3,060 m), and Mount June, with a peak of 10,090 feet (3,075 m). The total vertical increase from the lower ticket offices to the summit of June Mountain is 2,590 feet. Mount June averages 250 inches of snowfall a year along with some snow making abilities and a normal season running from December to April. The ski area covers 1,500 hectares and has 35 paths named which are 20% advanced, 45% medium, and 35% are beginners. June Mountain is also home to two terrain parks and 22 feet superpipe. Many opportunities exist, however, for motorists to explore the trees that cover most ski areas, the total area and access to fresh snow from the ski runway. Mount June has also established itself as a favorite spot among the locals because of the small crowd and easy access to the powder after the storm.
Backcountry
The lifts at June Mountain Ski Resort also provide riders access to several inland skiing locations that typically require an all-day climb. Examples of this inland zone are San Joaquin Ridge, Negatives, Fern Creek, Carson Peak, Devil's Slide, and Four Seasons. Due to the location of the resort, 5,000 feet of foot is easily available with only 2,000 feet up by skiing. Because of this and a variety of inland terrain found in the immediate vicinity of the resort, Mt. June is considered to have some of the best inaccessible inland elevators in the West.
Services
Most mountain services are found in the June Meadows chalet, on J1 seats. Services include well-known restaurants and bars. It is also home to a ski school, a general merchandise store, and a ski shop, providing ski equipment, snowboarding, and their requirements. Another restaurant on the mountain, "Stew Pots Slim's", located at the base of the J7 seat, is very popular with the more advanced skiers, due to its location beside the terrain park and numerous mountains on June Mountain. It serves drinks, sandwiches, soups and chili.
More
Mount June has some snow, but is rarely used, because the mountain averages about 250 inches (6.4 m) of snowfall per year. It also has a small maintenance fleet for parks and land routes. June Mountain was once home to QMC, or Quad Monocable Tramway, a gondola similar to funitel or funifor. It was built by Yan Lift (Elevator Engineering), but was removed in 1996 due to technical problems. It was bought by Dave McCoy in 1986, owner of Mount Mammoth. The ski resort is now owned by Mammoth Mountain Ski resort.
References
External links
- the official site of Mount June
- June mount statistics
- Skilifts.org
- Skiresort.info test report
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