{"id":2787,"date":"2007-02-04T17:11:45","date_gmt":"2007-02-04T17:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2787"},"modified":"2007-02-04T17:11:45","modified_gmt":"2007-02-04T17:11:45","slug":"kirkwood_jumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2787","title":{"rendered":"Kirkwood Jumps the Shark?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2007\/02\/04\/REGLJNTUGJ1.DTL\">Kathryn Reed<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Those who skied <a href=\"ttp:\/\/www.kirkwood.com\">Kirkwood<\/a> 20 or more years ago found a typical day lodge with a cafeteria and slow lifts. It was the mountain people came for. They still come for it, only now they don&#8217;t have to make the 40-mile trek into South Lake Tahoe to spend the night.<\/p>\n<p>Off Highway 88 where Alpine, Amador and El Dorado counties meet, the Kirkwood Valley is growing up. Whether it grows with grace will be decided in the next few years.<\/p>\n<p>Even with all the hammering and sawing, Kirkwood remains laid-back &#8212; and growth has come relatively slowly. Ten years ago, the first phase of the village opened with 19 condominiums. The resort installed its first high-speed quad chairlift in 2001, with its second in operation last ski season. Dining choices are still sparse, but more diverse. Pretentiousness is unheard of. The 2000 Census tallies Kirkwood&#8217;s population at 96 and Tim Cohee, president of Kirkwood Mountain Realty, says full-time residents still number fewer than 100. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was one of those people who skied Kirkwood years ago. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squaw.com\/\">Squaw Valley<\/a> ski visit always included Jaguars and Mercedes-Benz (Oh Lord, Won&#8217;t you buy me a Mercedes-Benz), while a fun outing to Kirkwood found the Jeep \/ 4-Runner crowd enjoying the mountain.   It is nice to stay on the mountain, but miles of condos in the valley certainly changes the alpine views.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathryn Reed: Those who skied Kirkwood 20 or more years ago found a typical day lodge with a cafeteria and slow lifts. It was the mountain people came for. They still come for it, only now they don&#8217;t have to make the 40-mile trek into South Lake Tahoe to spend the night. Off Highway 88 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,24,20,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}