Adam at Mammoth 1/21/2010

Tony Crocker

Tony Crocker

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This is not his TR, but this is what Adam was doing on chair 22 at Mammoth most of yesterday: http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/show ... p?t=182591
He skied 26K, all runs were mostly powder. Adam has to leave this weekend to return to San Diego for school. He will have skied more powder during the ~4 weeks of this winter break than the entire time he lived at Mammoth during the 2007-08 season.
 
Storm total 63 inches and still going as of this morning. The usual reason powder is not so deep at Mammoth is wind packing and Adam said there was not much wind yesterday. Chair 22 has wraparound exposures so there can be a filled-in leeward side even with moderate winds. The previous day was a more typical Mammoth blizzard with even that middle tier of lifts closed. So Adam went to June and skied the just-opened face there.
 
Tony Crocker":24r0uxcd said:
So Adam went to June and skied the just-opened face there.
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Sounds like a great call, wish they were open when I was there in early December, nothing was running that Sunday.
 
thanks for the report, heading up there tomorrow

btw, i was on the ski and snowboard team at ucsd with your son, good to see he's still charging hard! looks like he scored up there.
 
frosty t":3svf9zb6 said:
thanks for the report, heading up there tomorrow

btw, i was on the ski and snowboard team at ucsd with your son, good to see he's still charging hard! looks like he scored up there.
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But yes, the last two days have been extremely good here. Yesterday, I saw two people drop the big rock under the lift on 22, then 3 hours later it was filled in enough that a 3rd hit it in the same spot. Today was even better, with more overnight snow and less wind in the afternoon. 22 had some of the deepest and lightest snow I've ever skied at Mammoth. Unfortunately the lift had maintenance issues off and on all morning, but 5 and 3 were open so there were other options. Ended up at 25.7k on the day, again nearly all powder. Tomorrow looks to be just as good, though with less refilling during the day. Today was also my first day on the new skis, and I'll sum up my feelings on them with this:

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Skiace":jjo5ms94 said:
Today was also my first day on the new skis, and I'll sum up my feelings on them with this:

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The last time I saw a picture of someone licking skis like that was a post from TGR of a girl without any clothes. Thank a lot for ruining that mental image ace. :x [-X

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We had a storm very similiar to this in 07/08 so if he has ridden more powder these past 4 weeks than he did the whole season he lived here, he was LAZY!!! 07/08 was certainly below average year (by 30 inches) for mammoth, but there were still many epic powder days to be had. This storm cycle however has been amazing, and today on 22 was probably the best day I have ever had on 1 lift.
 
snowboard247":3lx6zdt9 said:
We had a storm very similiar to this in 07/08 so if he has ridden more powder these past 4 weeks than he did the whole season he lived here, he was LAZY!!! 07/08 was certainly below average year (by 30 inches) for mammoth, but there were still many epic powder days to be had. This storm cycle however has been amazing, and today on 22 was probably the best day I have ever had on 1 lift.
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The year I lived there, I happened to be in Utah and Canada during most of the major storms.
 
This video of the Mammoth patrol skiing, sums up Mammoth. The great skiing is at the end of the video, powerful skiers taking the best Mammoth has, first on, last off the mountain, runs to themselves. They are amazing folks. I think this was made around the time of the lost patrollers there. Sorry the footage is at the end of the video after they blow things up. It is hot if you don't know Mammoth, the top of the mountain. This is what it is all about! I used to ski with those guys as a teenager on the top. They were fine men, really impressed me!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj7uwiMj-wk
 
The majority of the snow that fell over the 5-6 day storm event was 8-9% water content snow. The usual utah pow is 6-7% water content. "Normal" water content snow for mammoth is 12-14%, so it was much lighter than the regular sierra cement we get. Face shots galore.
 
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