Mammoth 16/17

[1000-oaks]

Pretty serious mob at Stump too, and 14 was longer than I've ever seen it. Close to 17,000 on Sat.

[Nevada29er]

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One for the record books.[/QUOTE]

Makes me feel better about the Rose lines the last 2 days with Slide lift down.

Still waiting on the right timing for my MC passes at Mammy.

[stylee]

It was a perfect storm of crowds here. The photo below is the end of the gondola line at main on Saturday. 23 was shut down until midday today, which meant there was only one way to the top. Rode up one time with Rusty who said a cable had wrapped around one of the chairs in the storm. After two laps I gave up and just skied with the kids. No line at roller coaster! I also heard a rumor that they stopped letting more cars into town for a while today.

[-Devin-]

I snapped this pic from Unbound cam yesterday.

[irratator]

Yikes! Thats a lot of people.

[Eastern Sierra Skier]

Pretty serious mob at Stump too, and 14 was longer than I've ever seen it. Close to 17,000 on Sat.

I heard the figure 21,900 on the hill Saturday.

[Big Tim]

Arrived On 1/8 greeted by poring rain. It changed to snow at 6pm and snowed for the next 4 days High lighted by balls deep on 22 on Thursday chair 22 trenching Dipped out to June on Saturday. Wrapping up 6 straight days of amazing powder skiing.

[therudeness]

EC mag here, in Vegas for work. First time in the area. Wife and baby are coming down tuesday night and we've got a van rented to roadtrip for 10 days. The plan was to head to the coast for surf but with news of all this snow and with a refresh coming... I packed my boots.

Best place to ski thursday / friday, renting skis? Maybe splitting a ticket with the wife and taking turns in the chalet with the baby. Or daycare if not too pricey, baby is 11 months. In short, looking for: good place to rent skis, good place to ski (mammoth? tahoe? someplace cheaper?) and someplace to park the van. it's a conversion from https://www.escapecampervans.com/. I see mammoth lakes has an RV park. any info is appreciated. willing to spend a few hundred for some good skiing

[Big Tim]

Make sure you have chains. Assuming you'be surfing in So Cal, Mammoth is a hours closer. The RV park is nice with hook ups, indor pool and jacuzzi. The Ski Renter is close to the RV park. Start your day at the Eagle Lodge parking lot for the easiest drive. Get the early for a good spot.

[TahoeJ]

EC mag here, in Vegas for work. First time in the area. Wife and baby are coming down tuesday night and we've got a van rented to roadtrip for 10 days. The plan was to head to the coast for surf but with news of all this snow and with a refresh coming...

What are you in Vegas for? I am too which is why I ask. I'm here now for ASW.

[therudeness]

Thanks for the info , yep I'm at ASW

[mmsnowman]

They all packed up and left today... NE winds had the top shut down. SW for Tuesday, let's pray for windy conditions with sugar blowing around.

[mmsnowman]

Happy Martin Luther King day to you all! Mammoth is under clear blue skies for at least one more day. The crowds have left and the skiing and snow boarding are a ton of fun.

More snow on the way Thursday into next Monday. At this time the outlook is calling for 4-6 feet of additional snow over the 5 day period as 3 storm systems move thru the area.

Snowman is healed up and back on the hill Sunday - Friday... look for the red hat and give me a shout out, I got Free Stickers and would love to me you. Snowman Out.

[Hott Butt Mud]

Curious, without knowing anything about Mammoth, why is this line not tracked out? Is it closed?

Guess you can't really make out any ropes in the pics?

[mmsnowman]

It's closed. That line is very very rare to be skiable.

[WaistDeepGroomers]

[TahoeJ]

^^ Funny but whomever made it doesn't know much about Tahoe.

[Boomer28]

^^ Funny but whomever made it doesn't know much about Tahoe.

Yea Tahoe seemed to have it's fair share of crowds this past weekend...oh hey guess what? Another 3+ feet this week is coming....

[Long duc dong]

Noids laps were taking me close to an hour on Saturday. That's what happens when 23 is closed.

[liv2ski]

^^ Funny but whomever made it doesn't know much about Tahoe.

Right??? But that was still pretty funnez. My wife heard the German ranting and me cracking up = WTF???

[Eastern Sierra Skier]

Skied today with my old roomie from back in the day until about 2:30. After a insane weekend, it was back to more typical mid-week Mammoth with no lift lines longer than 1-2 minutes. Did a little of everything from CL over to Ch 15 over to Ch 14 and back. Groomers were good all over and with the lack of crowds you could open it up for a change. Skiing off the top is just ok. Coverage is great, but the snow is kind of chunky and funky. It could definitely use some favorable winds or a reset, which is in the forecast. We did hangers once, which was really wide. Then headed off the top past Dave's to the top of Dragons back and dropped into one of the head chutes. Not super great, but different as neither of us had done them in a few years. We finished on Ch 22 skiing avi 2 from the top. Never seen bumps that big in it above the choke. A sign of how much traffic has been thru there in the last five days.

Had to get a pic of the sign at the top. Normal height is 18 ft. Howard says with another 20" that this will be the biggest January on record. I'm sure most of you have seen this video for Ch 22 on Thursday, but I'll throw up the link just in case you haven't. One of the best days, if not the best pow session I've ever had at Mammoth.

http://www.powder.com/videos/powder-...1DzWw5qdlEO.97
Listen to it with the volume cranked up loud so you can hear the stoke. Great accompaning articles with it from Powder Mag web page, especially the one "Chasing the Storm to Mammoth" by Sierra Davis. She did a great job of summing up what that day was like. Ignore the comments afterwards. Lots of angry haters, bitter that they weren't out there.
P.S. Line on 22-less than 10 minutes with fresh tracks all day.

[liv2ski]

Wish I could ski 22 that good. The camera made that run look pretty mellow when in fact it can be pretty steep in sections. Those guys killed it.

[Idyllwild]

A repeat of last Thursday's 22 sessions tomorrow? Winds in the 30's with 11-17 forecasted tonight. I wonder how the snow density will be

[hutash]

Anybody up Sunday, Monday or Tuesday? Looking like some sweet and deep.

[liv2ski]

I will be rolling in tomorrow around 10 am and out by Saturday evening. Enjoy the better weather.