Short pause to rest my legs in the middle of one of the powder runs.

Just came back from a weekend in Mammoth. We had a 3 day weekend here in the states so I figured, why not get some skiing in this weekend. That was exactly what we did.

We got a condo really close to the lift together with Charles, Caroline and Magnus. Charles and Caroline made took Friday off and drove up Thursday night for a four day weekend. Magnus, Deanne and I drove up late in the afternoon on Friday.

We went straight to bed when we got there, after a short stop at the liquor store to get some whisky and beer that is.

Again! Again! One more run!

Saturday was really nice and sunny all day. The skiing was great and we went all over. The snow was pretty nice. Saturday night we were going to go out for sushi, but after hanging out in a french Crepe place too long drinking wine we totally missed that the sushi place closed. We had to settle for pita bread instead.

Sunday wasn’t as sunny as Saturday was and the wind started to pick up more and more during the day which meant that the top closed later in the day. In the end of the day the wind was so strong that we gave up. The top had over 90 mph wind. It also started snowing more and more during Sunday.

Dumping and dumping :)

Monday we woke up to dumping snow. We were worried that the mountain would be closed, but they had just closed the top. Charles and Caroline headed home in the morning because they were worried of not making it out of Mammoth because of the snow. I gave them one pair of the chains to my car and sent them on their way.
We packed the car and headed out to the mountain.

It started REALLY dumping. Visibility got worse and the wind started to pick up, but there was so much fresh powder that we had to ride! We made sure to stay close to or in the trees so we could see better. It dumped like crazy at this point. My tracks from the run before were almost gone by the time I made it up whit the lift for my next run. And best of all, there was no one around. I think people were worried they would get snowed in in Mammoth and had left early because the mountain was empty.

I had one of the better powder days I have had at Mammoth. Everytime I got to the bottom after a long powder run in the forest I had a huge smile on my face :)

Happy campers :)

At about 2.30 we were pretty exhausted and wet. We were starting to worry about getting out of the village with all the snow so we stopped for the day. After filling up the car with all our stuff we tried to clear it from all the snow. We cleared it clean of all the snow and I took my boots off and put my regular shoes on. In the time it took me to do that an inch of snow had covered the car! It was dumping!

We started driving out of Mammoth. You could basically see one and a half car lenght forward and there were cars on both sides of the road that had spun off the road. We drove slow and steady to make sure we didn’t slide off. I had just gotten new tires for my car and I was very happy about that and then four wheel drive! It took us over an hour to get out of the snow storm. Once we were out of the snow storm we went full speed to LA with just a pit stop in Bishop for some sandwiches.

Awesome weekend (2nd in a row, we were there 3 days the weekend before).

It is supposed to snow all week this week and then be sunny on Saturday again. We are totally going next weekend too :)