4ft at Mammoth this week

True, apparently the Skidazzle in LA is Halloween weekend. I want to try and buy some stuff at the show so that weekends not looking great for me now anyway. I'm just ready to get on the slopes....soon enough.
 
apparently the Skidazzle in LA is Halloween weekend.
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That's a big change. It's been first weekend of December the last few years. But the L.A. Auto Show is claiming the early December dates this year.
 
it makes sense that its before the ski season. I never thought it made sense them having it the first week of december. By that time resorts have been open for a week or two at most, so most people are out riding. I never went to skidazzle cause I always wanted to be out on the mountain instead of at a show that involves snow. Now if i didn't live in mammoth, I would most certainly be hitting up skidazzle.
 
By that time resorts have been open for a week or two at most, so most people are out riding.
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Usually not me, as my median opening day is Dec. 16. According to my records over the past 20 years a SoCal resort has been "worth skiing," meaning at least half open with some single black runs 10% of the time in November, 20% first weekend in December, 35% second weekend of December, with finally a sharp rise to 65% third weekend of December. http://webpages.charter.net/tcrocker818/scalhist.htm.

The odds are of course better than that at Mammoth http://webpages.charter.net/tcrocker818/mmthhist.htm but the threshold for arranging a weekend trip with lodging is also higher than a daytrip. Last weekend was Exhibit A; I could have easily done a Saturday daytrip but not the whole weekend with Friday/Sunday obligations.

Nonetheless I would agree that the decade-ago timing of SkiDazzle the weekend before Thanksgiving was better.
 
Tony Crocker":garnzca2 said:
By that time resorts have been open for a week or two at most, so most people are out riding.
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Usually not me, as my median opening day is Dec. 16.

Nonetheless I would agree that the decade-ago timing of SkiDazzle the weekend before Thanksgiving was better.
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Tony, youre obviously not 'most people' :snowball fight:
 
My median closing day is May 27. Early season is overrated and late season is underrated by "most people" IMHO. :snowball fight: I'll take a July 4 closing day at Mammoth (even including the extra driving and lodging) anytime vs. the usual SoCal local WROD skiing before mid-December. When Mammoth had the early dumps last year and in 2004 I did get up there in mid-November. Last weekend was a close call; better cover/conditions or not having to do it as a daytrip and I probably would not have been able to resist the October turns.
 
Tony Crocker":26jdt3jz said:
Early season is overrated and late season is underrated by "most people" IMHO. :snowball fight: I'll take a July 4 closing day at Mammoth (even including the extra driving and lodging) anytime vs. the usual SoCal local WROD skiing before mid-December.
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Im on board with this thinking 100%. I cant believe people are so amped to get on snow early season, but when late GREAT season skiing is to be had, nobody is around.
 
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