Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Mammoth
As the winter waiting game continues, with Squaw holding strong with 2 icy groomers and Alpine set to open this weekend, now is the perfect time to go to Mammoth. While Mammoth is suffering from a similar lack of snow to Tahoe, apparently they know how to 1. blow snow and 2. groom it. When we got 4 inches a couple days ago, they got 16. The wind may have hammered it and blown a lot of it away, but there's still enough to make the skiing there way better than here right now.
Mammoth does it up right and I was impressed with how well the mountain is skiing considering how little snow they have. The eastern sierra is always a sight to behold, and even though the mountains down there need a couple more feet to get the backcountry going they are still really impressive to check out. So, if you just can't take another red dog lap, head on down to Mammoth, you'll be glad you did.
The off-trail skiing there is still pretty sketchy, although, not nearly as bad as here. The groomed runs are all-time good, and they even have snow on them, snow not ice. It seems that they've got a good little park going right now as well with boxes, rails, mini wall-rides and a nice looking medium size jump. In the picture below my buddy, and former Porter's employee Chris Doyle, makes the sweet snow on the groomers look like a three foot powder day slashing on his new Lib Tech TRice.
Mammoth does it up right and I was impressed with how well the mountain is skiing considering how little snow they have. The eastern sierra is always a sight to behold, and even though the mountains down there need a couple more feet to get the backcountry going they are still really impressive to check out. So, if you just can't take another red dog lap, head on down to Mammoth, you'll be glad you did.
Labels: Alpine Meadows, Jeremy Benson, mammoth, Sqauw Valley
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good to see Doyle on snow again!