The view at 10,800’ from the top of Chair 23, with the Minarets and the Matterhorn in the background.
I got a couple of tickets to Mammoth through work, so Nancy and I headed down for a mini-vacation. We left Truckee at 4:00 in the morning to get there nice and early.
We’d been trying for a few weeks to go, but the weather hadn’t been co-operating with our days off. The weather looked a little iffy for this day, but we were running out of time so we decided to go for it.
Skiing the bumps on the Viva run off of Chair 22.
I thought we were going to get skunked, with the forecast calling for strong winds, cold temps and a chance of showers, but fortunately the winds calmed, it got warm with high clouds, and we lucked into soft snow conditions.
Extreme! NOT!
We skied every chair (except the baby lifts) that was running, and got 26 runs in.
Lounging in front of the Canyon Lodge.
We took an hour for lunch, relaxing in the (almost) spring conditions. At 3:00 some weather came in, blowing and hailing, but by then we were pretty much done anyway.
We spent the night in Mammoth, passing out from tired legs, not enough sleep and too much Mexican food.
