Yes, and ideally, the skiers will all meet horrible, painful deaths for desecrating the territory.... :-D
On a less facetious note, a correspondent who is about to join this forum recently provided me with the following information about Crater/Boreal Ridge, With his permission, I am posting it here, in the hope that others will be interested, and that this thread can be a repository for discussion of this enigmatic place.
Quote:After looking at a bunch of topographic maps of the area near Donner Summit, I found one ridge that matched the description of Crater Ridge perfectly: Boreal Ridge. The thing that makes me nearly certain of it is it not only has a small lake at the top of it, but the lake is still called Crater Lake, no doubt retaining the former name of the ridge it lies on. [...]
The lake and western portion of the ridge are on National Forest property, but the land that all the roads/trails to get to it are on is all owned by the ski resort. If all else fails, it may be possible to inconspicuously hike in cross-country to the site.
Here are links to some topographic maps that show it. I'm not sure how familiar you are with the area, so I included some larger scale (100k & 500k) maps to get a sense of where in northern California this is:
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