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Mt Bachelor Jan 3-10. I was pushing for Altabird but got overruled so that we could try somewhere new and also somewhere that doesn't have any difficult terrain.

I entered the lottery for Whitney last March and managed to secure one for this past weekend. We drove up Friday night and camped at Horseshoe Meadows at 10,000 ft. It's higher than the Whitney Portal, cheaper, and quieter. The next morning we drove down to Lone Pine to pick up our permit (a...

I spent a few days backpacking in Big Sur with a group of new freshmen. Although we weren't in one of the more picturesque areas (I also really like Point Lobos up near Monterrey), there were still good views to be had. If you've never done the drive up Highway 1, it's certainly among the best...

It's sad, but understandable. June didn't get many destination visitors itself; most of its skiers stayed/lived in Mammoth and had passes. June could be pretty great though. J1 opened at 7:30 (nobody ever knew them, they thought it was 8:30 like every other lift), so it was a private mountain...

I agree, the shortcomings of this thread are no fault of your own.

This should be good :popcorn:

I didn't do 13 so I'll admit that's just theoretical, but maintaining a 12 lap per hour pace wasn't too difficult on a weekend spring day with slushy snow and soft bumps. It's also possible they were running the lift faster than normal--it was moving far faster than chair 3. There was no issue...

Schedule flexibility played a huge role. Interviews somewhat limited my skiing to Saturday and Sunday only in late January-February, but outside of that range, I don't think I missed a single major storm at Mammoth. I looked at this season and the past one with a bit more detail. I averaged...

I know we've had the topics in the past, so I figured I'd start this years. I managed to get 60 days in, and I skied powder 18 of them. Obviously, the snow was pretty horrible early on and I had many early season days where I only skied groomers, but the snow did get better and March/April...

They'll just ice up all the time. It's general practice to carry some small item to pick the ice off if it occurs. I've heard it's best to use plastic since using metal (a key for instance) may remove some coating from the metal that'll make it even easier to ice up in the future. I just carry...

Ice buildup will really get you... Did you lock the toe or was it in normal release mode when it came off?

There's a decent chance of that. We know day-to-day operations have not been affected at all, and Mammoth is currently in the midst of what seems to be their most aggressive and widespread ad campaign ever. Who knows what's going on behind the scenes (i.e. do they now need to hire outside IT or...

Rusty said they needed to save $500,000/month, so that's $6 million a year. Divide that by the 75 employees fired and you get an annual total compensation (not salary) of $80,000 per employee. Not really low-paying jobs, but definitely not high-paying either. Not what the "top talent" is making...

While loyalty is nice, let's look at it from Mammoth's perspective. The people they let go probably weren't the most talented workers in the entire world (which isn't to say they weren't good at their jobs and loyal to the company, but they probably aren't the brilliant MIT Ph.Ds going to Google...

Most of the 80K was on groomers. However, I skied Solitude much more than any other run, and even though it was a "groomer," the top half was pure bumps by 11. It did help that I was able to straightline the bottom 1/3 of the run, though.

There are a lot of bare patches out there. Upper Solitude and the Face of 3 have dirt showing in the normally well-covered groomed sections. Even Broadway is looking brown. All of this is a major change from 2 days prior, showing just how fast the snow is melting. I also skied about 80,000 feet...

I started at age 10 and did ski school for the first 3 years (probably ~12 total days in ski school). For the last one or two days of the week-long trip, I'd generally ski with my parents instead of doing ski school. My parents certainly weren't really aggressive skiers (as in we'd stop to...

That's true, but the bottom part of Lost in the Woods is a slog on a powder day.

Eh, that was about as slow as I ever ski on a powder day. :-D

FWIW, I was dying after the second Hemlocks lap. It got really hot and I was wearing a super-insulated, non-vented one piece for April Fool's Day. Plus, the snow did start to get heavy. This past Friday (April 6th) was also surprisingly good. Mammoth reported just 1 inch, so no one showed up...