Desert to Alps

To residents of Palm Springs, California's summer-temperature winter resort.

Mount San Jacinto has always been merely the inconvenient hulk that cuts off the January sun at 3:30 p.m. and sends swimming pool loungers shivering toward the bar. But previously inaccessible Mount San Jacinto is soon to be a resort area itself. The world's largest passenger-carrying tramway will lift vacationers from oven-like Chino Canyon to a winter-temperature summer resort some 5,900 ft. above--from the California desert to the California Alps in 15 minutes.

The tramway's cars (one going in each direction) will hold 80 passengers, who might not want to risk a ski run down San Jacinto's craggy sides, but can at least enjoy a 100-mile view of the valley.

Palm Springs' planners expect to complete the $7,700,000 system by next May. hope to draw an additional 500,000 visitors annually soon thereafter.

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