Mammoth June 9-10...

Patrick

Patrick

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A quick note,

Skiing is great as the coverage.

Lift 1-3-23 were open. Lift are open from 7 to 2. Most things are open, however you have to make sure you access a lift at the end of your run.
Surfaces are the bottom get soft near 9. Earlier today.

Wipe Out was soft at 10am, Drop out was still hard but fun. Paranoid was very wet and heavy, I believe only a hand full of skier made the treak. Someone skied Philippe yesterday judging from the tracks, however their was an extremely tight spot in the middle of hit.

Forecast for Tomorrow. Chair 23 will be closed, Chair 2 and Gondola will open.

My fav runs for today. Drop Out, Wrazzy(?) Chute (under Chair 1) followed by Paranoid.

Ah yes, the snow is very SUN CUP, especially at the bottom of the less travel runs (from Summit) as the blue run under Philippe as I discoved yesterday. 2-3 feet holes, like skiing on the Moon.
 
Gravy Chute is under the top of Chair 1. It had to be dug out a bit in March/April so as not to obstruct the chair, and its surface looked icy in April/May. You could still traverse past it a bit and come down through the equally steep stunted trees.

I'm not surprised by the suncupping given the late May heat wave. I suspect that may have degraded the backside skiing, though it was lift accessible through Memorial Day. That area had smooth backcountry corn Memorial weekend 1995, similar to (but not nearly as steep as) Marc's High Baldy run last weekend.

The opening of Stump Alley lift this weekend allows access to most of chair 5's terrain. Could be smooth, might be suncupped, worth a run to check out.
 
how many distinct bump runs does mammoth have at this time of the year? do they still groom at all?
 
They groom quite a bit, with the salting to maintain an enjoyable surface, typically Broadway, the race course runs, St Anton from Chair 1, Face of 3 and Saddle Bowl from chair 3, and Cornice from the top. Chair 2 has groomed and salted runs when open.

Bump lines will form naturally in several areas but there is no management intervention. So the usual judgments apply in terms of:
1) Did it freeze overnight?
2) Depending upon each day's weather when will the bumps be soft but with a good supporting base underneath?

West Bowl on chair 3 is the most likely bump area of intermediate pitch. On May weekends there might have been some similar areas on chair 5. In June I've seen zipper lines along the liftline and other fall lines of chair 3.

Up top Climax will nearly always have some good bump lines, And the rocks constrain Wipe Out/Drop out so those will likely be mogulled in late spring. Same with Hangman's but steeper and more constrained at the top. The more wide-open areas like Dave's and Scotty's tend to stay fairly smooth, but in the real warm weather it can be easist to stick to skier packed lines, which may eventually turn to moguls.

Mammoth's other management effort is to keep the park aficionados happy. The Unbound Park in front of the Main Lodge can thin out in May, so for the past 3 years they have constructed a 17-foot halfpipe in late May at the bottom of Climax. This area accumulates an immense amount of snow, so that pipe can be recut and maintained as long as the area is open.
 
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