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  2. Big Pines, California - Wikipedia

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    Big Pines began as a year-round recreation area built by Los Angeles County in 1924. [1] It is a popular ski area close to Los Angeles, as it has a history of significant snowfall, even as late as May. [2] [3] The Mountain High Ski Resort and the Table Mountain Observatory are located in Big Pines.

  3. Lake Tahoe - Wikipedia

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    Lake Tahoe (/ ˈ t ɑː h oʊ /; Washo: Dáʔaw) is a freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada of the Western United States, straddling the border between California and Nevada.Lying at 6,225 ft (1,897 m) above sea level, Lake Tahoe is the largest alpine lake in North America, [4] and at 122,160,280 acre⋅ft (150.7 km 3) it trails only the five Great Lakes as the largest by volume in the United ...

  4. Big Pine, California - Wikipedia

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    Big Pine (formerly Bigpine) [3] is a census-designated place (CDP) in Inyo County, California, United States. Big Pine is located approximately 15 miles (24 km) south-southeast of Bishop . [ 3 ] Its population was 1,756 at the 2010 census, up from 1,350 at the 2000 census.

  5. Mountain High - Wikipedia

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    Coinciding with the population growth of Southern California in the 1920s, hikers and ski enthusiasts began using Big Pines, an area near the present day Mountain High resort. In 1929 the construction began on the world's largest ski jump of that time in an attempt to attract the 1932 Winter Olympics.

  6. List of lakes of California - Wikipedia

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    Lake Tahoe is the second deepest lake in the U.S. In terms of area covered, the largest lake in California is the Salton Sea, a lake formed in 1905 which is now saline.It occupies 376 square miles (970 km 2) in the southeast corner of the state, but because it is shallow it only holds about 7.5 million acre⋅ft (2.4 trillion US gal; 9.3 trillion L) of water. [2]

  7. Van Sickle Bi-State Park - Wikipedia

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    Van Sickle Bi-State Park is a public recreation area straddling the border of California and Nevada, (Western United States), that overlooks Lake Tahoe (shared by both states) and preserves the memory of Henry Van Sickle, a key member in the founding of the town of Genoa, Nevada and the surrounding area.

  8. Twin Peaks (Placer County, California) - Wikipedia

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    Twin Peaks is located four miles west of Tahoe Pines and Lake Tahoe, along the boundary that Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit shares with Granite Chief Wilderness.It is situated on the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, with precipitation runoff from the peak draining east to Lake Tahoe, and west to the Rubicon River via Bear Pen Creek.

  9. Desolation Wilderness - Wikipedia

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    The Desolation Wilderness is a 63,960-acre (258.8 km 2) federally protected wilderness area in the Eldorado National Forest and Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, in El Dorado County, California. The crest of the Sierra Nevada runs through it, just west of Lake Tahoe. [1]

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