Skiing / Bob Lochner : Six Areas in Southland Are Operating This Week

Six Southland ski areas--Goldmine, Snow Summit, Snow Valley, Mountain High, Ski Sunrise and Kratka Ridge--are operating this week on 12 to 30 inches of snow, and a seventh, Mt. Baldy, hopes to join the fun on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28.

Two more, Mt. Waterman and Snow Forest, are awaiting additional snow.

In the High Sierra, meanwhile, a storm was due to arrive by early this morning, which should enable nearly all of the resorts to open sometime before the long holiday weekend.

At the moment, Mammoth Mountain, Squaw Valley, Kirkwood, Alpine Meadows, Sierra Ski Ranch, Boreal and Mt. Rose are running at least a portion of their lifts on a base of 12 to 48 inches.

As for the rest, they’re scheduled to come on line as follows: Friday-- Dodge Ridge and Sugar Bowl; Saturday--June Mountain, Mt. Reba/Bear Valley, Badger Pass at Yosemite, Homewood, Soda Springs and Ski Incline; next Wednesday --Donner Ski Ranch, Echo Summit and Northstar; Nov. 28--Heavenly Valley and Tahoe Ski Bowl, and Dec. 13--Tahoe Donner.

International competition will begin next Tuesday with the annual World Series of Skiing at Sestriere, Italy.

The races, which continue through Nov. 30, were supposed to have been held at Sarajevo, but a shortage of snow in Yugoslavia caused the switch.

Skiing Notes

Ski Dazzle ‘85, Los Angeles’ annual ski show, will run Thursday through Sunday at the L.A. Convention Center. Hours are 4 to 11:00 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. Saturday and noon to 6:00 p.m. Sunday. . . . Warren Miller’s 90-minute film, “Steep and Deep,” continues its Southland tour with showings tonight at the South Coast Laguna in Laguna Beach (7 and 9:30), Thursday at the Viejo Twin in Mission Viejo (7 and 9:30 p.m.), Friday and Saturday at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium (8 both nights), also Friday and Saturday at North High School in Bakersfield, and Sunday at the Anaheim Convention Center (7:30 p.m.).

Christin Cooper, in town for the ski show, will be the special guest at the 16th annual banquet of the Ski Writers Assn. of Southern California tonight at the Los Angeles Press Club.. . . Former U.S. Ski Team stars Phil and Steve Mahre and Cindy Nelson, plus Tom Kelly, who coached the Mahres, will head the staff for the Marker Ski Camp at Snow Summit Dec. 2-4. . . . Hank Kashiwa, a former U.S. Ski Team racer and 1975 World Pro Skiing champion, has taped a series of skiing tips at Keystone, Colo., where he is director of skiing, and they’ll be shown on “Good Morning America” (Channel 7, 7-9:00 a.m.) weekly throughout the season.

Squaw Valley plans to have its new Siberia Express detachable quad chairlift running Saturday and its new gondola (replacing one they installed just two years ago) operational by Thanksgiving. . . . Don Schwartz, who ran Sugar Bowl for many years with class and distinction, has retired; his successor is Bruce Nurse. . . . Tim Cohee has left his job as marketing director at snow Summit to take a similar position at Heavenly Valley. . . . The Yosemite Mountaineering School is operating out of Curry Village until Badger Pass opens, offering cross-country skiing lessons and equipment rentals. There’s more than a foot of snow on the valley floor.

Mt. Bachelor, near Bend, Ore., opened for the season last Thursday. . . . Early storms in the Rockies enabled Colorado resorts to get the jump on the rest of the West. Berthoud Pass opened on Oct. 3, followed two weeks later by Loveland Basin and Keystone, and this month (so far) by Copper Mountain, Wolf Creek, Eldora, Winter Park, Monarch and Breckenridge. Arapahoe Basin, Steamboat and Vail plan to get under way on Friday, Purgatory on Saturday. . . . Ernie Blake’s Taos Ski Valley, in New Mexico, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this season.