Popular Eastern Sierra Snowmobile Area Closes For Lack Of Snow; Likely 2B Shortest Season Ever
A popular winter recreation area in the Eastern Sierra is closed to snowmobiling until further notice. That’s according to the U.S. Forest Service which on Tuesday closed the Bridgeport Winter Recreation Area.
It’s among the earliest closing dates on record for the area, according to Adrianne Thatcher, recreation staff officer for the Bridgeport Ranger District in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. If the area doesn't reopen 2018 would be its shortest season on record.
“Leavitt Lake Road was down to bare dirt,” said Thatcher of the road that intersects with California State Route 108 at about 8,400 feet in elevation. “We were having temperatures in the low 50s above 9,000 feet up at the (Sonora) pass.”
"All our areas on the Carson Range are having the same issue," Erica Hupp," a Humboldt-Toiyabe Forest Spokesperson in Reno.
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