We are back at Mammoth for a couple of days. Tuesday was clear, highs in the 40’s, but windy. With the clear skies the overnight freeze was fairly hard, and the wind delayed softening. Our 9AM start on Stump Alley was not as icy as on April 17, but far more than the next two days. With Canyon/Eagle closed, Stump is one of few lower mountain runs with morning sun so we repeated it a few times, mixing in a run from the back of chair 3 to Coyote, where the lower section softens early.
About 10:30 we took Gold Rush and ran another Coyote lap via chair 5. This one was better since Coyote’s middle section was also in corn mode.
Up 5 again, we skied a slightly firm Solitude to the chair 4 runs which had softened, as had Wall Street on the way back to chair 2. From 2 we skied around past the lower race runs which looked firm aside from partial east facing Rusty’s, which had good corn as did lower Broadway.
Surprisingly the ropes had been lifted on Gremlin’s/St. Anton, so we rode the gondola, reaching the top at noon. Cornice and Gremlin’s were still firm; only the lower part of St. Anton had corn. So we took a lunch break since late in the day conditions figured to be better.
After lunch we had to take chair 6 to chair 2; then we hit Andy’s finally in corn mode.
It looks like the base of the old chair 1 has been completely removed now.
The lift towers are still there and probably will be until the ski area closes.
Cornice at 1:40 had excellent corn.
Gremlin’s and St. Anton were good too, though not as smooth as when they turn to corn before the ropes are dropped. So we took two more gondola/Cornice laps, continuing once to World Cup and Fascination and the next time to Chair 3. Face of 3 was good at 2:30, and next time up 3 we skied to chair 23. But I stopped on World Cup to commemorate a milestone.
I have now skied 10 million vertical feet lifetime at Mammoth.
From 23 we skied Scotty’s which was in similar fine form as Cornice.
Upper ungroomed steeps did not soften. We saw zero skiers all day on Dave’s, Hangman’s, the Drop Outs and Wipe Outs and only a couple making still noisy turns on Climax after 2PM. Ungroomed chair 5 probably remained firm also as the wind riding the lift in the morning was strong.
We skied 25,800 vertical Tuesday.
About 10:30 we took Gold Rush and ran another Coyote lap via chair 5. This one was better since Coyote’s middle section was also in corn mode.
Up 5 again, we skied a slightly firm Solitude to the chair 4 runs which had softened, as had Wall Street on the way back to chair 2. From 2 we skied around past the lower race runs which looked firm aside from partial east facing Rusty’s, which had good corn as did lower Broadway.
Surprisingly the ropes had been lifted on Gremlin’s/St. Anton, so we rode the gondola, reaching the top at noon. Cornice and Gremlin’s were still firm; only the lower part of St. Anton had corn. So we took a lunch break since late in the day conditions figured to be better.
After lunch we had to take chair 6 to chair 2; then we hit Andy’s finally in corn mode.
It looks like the base of the old chair 1 has been completely removed now.
The lift towers are still there and probably will be until the ski area closes.
Cornice at 1:40 had excellent corn.
Gremlin’s and St. Anton were good too, though not as smooth as when they turn to corn before the ropes are dropped. So we took two more gondola/Cornice laps, continuing once to World Cup and Fascination and the next time to Chair 3. Face of 3 was good at 2:30, and next time up 3 we skied to chair 23. But I stopped on World Cup to commemorate a milestone.
I have now skied 10 million vertical feet lifetime at Mammoth.
From 23 we skied Scotty’s which was in similar fine form as Cornice.
Upper ungroomed steeps did not soften. We saw zero skiers all day on Dave’s, Hangman’s, the Drop Outs and Wipe Outs and only a couple making still noisy turns on Climax after 2PM. Ungroomed chair 5 probably remained firm also as the wind riding the lift in the morning was strong.
We skied 25,800 vertical Tuesday.
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