BIG BEAR, CA — Nearly 80 years after a Western movie star opened up a mountain top tavern known as a gambling den and Hollywood haunt, it's no longer the John Wayne and Roy Rogers sightings that has ...

There's a concept called the "California double" that Californians love: Start your day surfing in the Pacific Ocean, and by that same afternoon, hit the ski slopes in the mountains east of the coast.

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