I had the pleasure of taking my 16 year old son to the Mountains for a little boarding yesterday. Wow, I could not believe that I could be on the slopes witin one hour in Southern California. I live in Rancho Cucamonga and have a few choices to board close by, Wrightwood, Big Bear and Mammoth. Well, they are listed in sequence according to drive time, so natually I picked Wrightwood because it was close and since I was merely spectating for the day I thought closer the better.
What I found was a great little getaway that is close, affordable and best of all they have affordable housing. Okay I grew up in Northern California and we had many choices like Tahoe, but at over 3 hours away and the cost to stay was not an option. So, when I got to Wrightwood I did a little prospecting myself while Chase was on the slopes. What I found was that you could get a cute cabin for under $125,000....that is AMAZING. I am so suprised that more So Cal residents dont take advantage of a ski/board destination that is so close and one that you can buy a cabin for so cheap. I mean split it with a few families and treat it like a timeshare and whala you have skiing at your door step and a place to stay to call your own (not to mention the tax write off, second home).
I felt like I had to share this find because if this was in NOR CAL people would buy in a heartbeat and to think that there is a draw of millions of people in the Los Angeles basin is just crazy!
By the way it was cold 32 and Chase said the boarding was pretty good considering it was close but naturally as a true boarder would say, "well Big Bear is a little better". I am telling you what just cannot win with teenagers.
www.mthigh.com, this is the website for the boarding.
Jeff
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