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What a day. Today made my Thanksgiving weekend. Maybe it was the lack of crowds, the good conditions, the sunshine or maybe it was all those combined with good people. Ever since visiting Northstar last weekend, it just keeps getting better and better. Today we woke up early, left a sleeping house in North Tahoe and [...]

I had spent Thanksgiving in Mammoth but an invite to Tahoe for the weekend was hard to turn down. We headed up on Friday night after a day of rest to visit the Tahoe family house and hang out with my brother’s extended family. Thanks to Jon at Boreal we were all able to spend [...]

The Thanksgiving Holidays mean the town and mountain start to pick up for the weekend so I wanted to get out before the mountain started getting crowded. It was the perfect break on Tuesday, winds had died down and the sun was out for bluebird laps. I met up with Dan and Liz for a [...]

We opened last Thursday for the season but I was gone for an extended weekend so didn’t get to ride Mammoth till today. Conditions were hardpacked still early season snow with bluebird skies. There weren’t too many people on the slopes so each run you pretty much went right up to the gates. I headed [...]

You know it’s a good day when the season finally kicks off at your home mountain. It means first turns, powder turns and tons of fun ahead. I was really forward to today, it was finally my mountain that was opening up for the season. After the last snowfall and snowmaking, there was more than [...]

It feels good to be out on the mountain.  Sunny slushy turns that make you happy even if you are just riding by yourself for a bit.  I headed out to help on chair #3 again, shadowing for the afternoon and getting in an occasional turn or three while doing it. I had talked with [...]

The mountain is in amazing condition for the end of June.  We finally got the heat wave and sunny skies but it’s a reminder of how quickly the snow melts when it finally does switch to summer.  I headed out to the slopes to help with chair #3 operations, it’s been fun to be a [...]

After a weekend in warm temperatures in San Jose, being back in the mountains was a good feeling.  But the warm temps were also in Mammoth and the mountain was noticeably browner in spots.  Most of the terrain is very much white but you start to see the dirt patches sticking out on lower mountain. [...]

It’s June 15 and I’m still walking out on the snow to go snowboarding.  That’s pretty rad considering most resorts have closed for the season or aren’t open daily.  Last summer I was riding Timberline and now I’m at Mammoth enjoying the summer conditions.  But it’s also a reminder that the season will end on [...]

It felt really good to get out on the slopes today.  Just a much needed break, relaxation and fun being outside working as a liftie for the afternoon.  The riding was excellent even though it was a slushy day but that meant fun park laps to end out the day.  I met up with the [...]