is mammoth worth the year pass?

**AscarLarkinyar** · 10-12-2012, 11:44 AM

my gf is trying to get me to get a pass there this year. i can't see me going there for more than 3-4 weekends and not getting bored.

i have only been there once 10 years ago.
i'm living in so. cali now

what do you think?

**Dr. Emmet Brown** · 10-12-2012, 12:16 PM

Maybe1234

**-Devin-** · 10-12-2012, 12:20 PM

Can't comment on whether you will get bored or not.... but if you ski at Mammoth 8 days this year, it will be cheaper to get a pass. Any more than 8 days with a pass is basically free skiing compared to buying a ticket per day.

**I've seen black diamonds!** · 10-12-2012, 12:55 PM

Originally Posted by AscarLarkinyar

i can't see me going there for more than 3-4 weekends and not getting bored.

what do you think?

If you can click around here and not get stoked, you just don't like skiing that much:

**whyturn** · 10-12-2012, 01:04 PM

your GF sounds great, mammoth the juries still out on that one

**Steven S. Dallas** · 10-12-2012, 01:21 PM

Depends on the year.

**Harry** · 10-12-2012, 02:53 PM

Can't believe no one else said this yet:

POST NEKKID PICS OF YOUR GF SO THAT WE CAN PROPERLY EVALUATE THIS QUESTION !!!

**GrumpyPilot** · 10-12-2012, 03:39 PM

Originally Posted by AscarLarkinyar

my gf is trying to get me to get a pass there this year. i can't see me going there for more than 3-4 weekends and not getting bored.

i have only been there once 10 years ago.
i'm living in so. cali now

what do you think?

I think you are a tard, is what I think. If you can ski worth a crap you won't get bored in 3-4 weekends, Mammoth is a great mountain. On second thought, I think you should get a pass at some place else.

**HotCarl** · 10-12-2012, 03:45 PM

Sounds like your girlfriend is more of a skier than you are. PM me her email.

Where else you gonna ski in so cal? Snow summit? Mountain high? Are those places still even open?

**Long duc dong** · 10-12-2012, 11:51 PM

Originally Posted by AscarLarkinyar

my gf is trying to get me to get a pass there this year. i can't see me going there for more than 3-4 weekends and not getting bored.

i have only been there once 10 years ago.
i'm living in so. cali now

what do you think?

I skied Squaw everyday for 5 years. Now I ski Mammoth 5 of every 8 weekends. I don't get bored.

I don't know where you skied before, but if you live in socal Mammoth is your best bet. Plan on going every few weekends, and getting Motel 6 nights if you can't lock in a season ski lease. I would also get a Mt. Baldy pass, as that will give you days when you don't go to Mammoth. Baldy is 1.5 hours from Orange County, and less than that from LA. It is a quality mountain.

Where are you coming from that you worry about getting bored at Mammoth? Chamonix?

**Adamantium** · 10-13-2012, 12:51 AM

Originally Posted by Long duc dong

I skied Squaw everyday for 5 years. Now I ski Mammoth 5 of every 8 weekends. I don't get bored.

I don't know where you skied before, but if you live in socal Mammoth is your best bet. Plan on going every few weekends, and getting Motel 6 nights if you can't lock in a season ski lease. I would also get a Mt. Baldy pass, as that will give you days when you don't go to Mammoth. Baldy is 1.5 hours from Orange County, and less than that from LA. It is a quality mountain.

Where are you coming from that you worry about getting bored at Mammoth? Chamonix?

Baldy is honestly too unpredictable to warrant a pass, particularly when they do those discounted Sport Chalet or REI tickets.

**Long duc dong** · 10-13-2012, 11:57 AM

Originally Posted by Adamantium

Baldy is honestly too unpredictable to warrant a pass, particularly when they do those discounted Sport Chalet or REI tickets.

A virtual pass is only $119, or something like that. Other than last year, mine has always been worth it. Actually, last year was worth it too. I got some days when the snow finally fell. I agree that Baldy is too unpredictable for a full pass, but a virtual one is not too bad.

**gingerbeardman** · 10-13-2012, 01:30 PM

Originally Posted by AscarLarkinyar

i'm living in so. cali now

what do you think?

move to BC

**BigHerm** · 10-13-2012, 10:18 PM

I skied/rode at Mammoth for two seasons and didn't get bored. It's a big mountain with a lot of great terrain. As others have said, you'd be crazy not to get a pass if you're going to go that much.

**masterofgreenbeans** · 10-13-2012, 11:49 PM

Yes, buy it

**DropCliffsNotBombs** · 10-14-2012, 09:52 AM

If you are getting bored with Mammoth after skiing only 3-4 weekends, you are not a skier (but it sounds like your girlfriend actually IS).
This is a "skiers" forum...

**Driver** · 10-14-2012, 04:52 PM

Originally Posted by DropCliffsNotBombs

If you are getting bored with Mammoth after skiing only 3-4 weekends, you are not a skier (but it sounds like your girlfriend actually IS).
This is a "skiers" forum...

Yep plus one

**nickwm21** · 10-14-2012, 05:00 PM

Originally Posted by Long duc dong

A virtual pass is only $119, or something like that. Other than last year, mine has always been worth it. Actually, last year was worth it too. I got some days when the snow finally fell. I agree that Baldy is too unpredictable for a full pass, but a virtual one is not too bad.

To re-up the virtual pass this year it was like $40

sent from the future using my mind powers

**Piggity** · 10-14-2012, 08:04 PM

Originally Posted by DropCliffsNotBombs

If you are getting bored with Mammoth after skiing only 3-4 weekends, you are not a skier (but it sounds like your girlfriend actually IS).
This is a "skiers" forum...

Maybe he's a bump skier, I hear the bumps at mammy get boring after a few weekends

**BigHerm** · 10-15-2012, 05:26 PM

Idk, the bumps on Dave's were the size of VW's last season and the spring zipper-line on West Bowl is always entertaining.

To each his own, but boredom at Mammoth seems unlikely.

**Big Tim** · 10-15-2012, 08:50 PM

Originally Posted by nickwm21

To re-up the virtual pass this year it was like $40

sent from the future using my mind powers

It was $29 bones to reup.

there was no pow at Mammoth last year.... http://www.telemarktips.com/video2011_12/SplatDaySm.wmv

**TWINS** · 10-15-2012, 09:10 PM

Originally Posted by Big Tim

http://www.telemarktips.com/video2011_12/SplatDaySm.wmv

Well that was entertaining^^^ Thanks for posting the stoke.
Yes, you need to buy a MVP pass if your girlfriend is down with it...

**agwat1111** · 10-15-2012, 09:58 PM

Mammoth sucks...with all that terrain you'll probably get lost...just skip skiing all together and get the iSkier app for iphone...that's where it's at these days

**coldfeet** · 10-16-2012, 01:49 AM

Is this a real question?

Don't buy the pass. Take the money, in cash, and hand it to your girlfriend, saying "I don't appreciate you enough to do what you are passionate about, with you. Find yourself a partner who does. And up in Mammoth, buy the bar a round on me."