Heather Fargo, a former Sacramento mayor, was in her senior year at UC Davis in 1975. Though she wasn’t a skier, she recalled that snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains was always “reliable” in those days.
“There was never a time when there wasn’t snow for people to ski in during the winter,” Fargo said. The snow did not melt as quickly as it does today, she added.
“It was just very predictable. It was reliable. And things started getting less reliable.”…