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This post is a little overdue but better late then never. A group of us went up to Mammoth Mountain to do a little skiing the weekend before last. It was a BLAST. According to the lift ticket on my ski jacket that I dug out of a box, the last time I went skiing was in 2000 at Stevens just east of Seattle. Mammoth is located about 8 hours north of San Diego in the Sierra Nevada Mountains at an elevation of about 11,000 ft.; at least I’m guessing it was 11 since the sign at the highest point I was skiing at read just over 10,000 and I wasn’t quite at the top.

Anyway, there was 6 of us all together: Dylan, Tyler, Jakob, Nick, Bill and myself. We went up on Thursday and returned on Sunday night. I only skied for one day, mostly because the weather kept moving in and it was snowing like crazy. The funny thing about Mammoth is that you only reach the snow line about a mile from the actual resort. So you go from zero snow on the ground to blizzard conditions with 20 foot snow banks on the sides of the roads all within about a 1 mile distance. It’s like driving into some fake Disney or Epcot snow village where they create the illusion of a real place… except it is real.

Tyler posted some pictures from the weekend over at his blog. I’ve linked to them below.

Enjoy.

[ Click here for pictures of Mammoth Skiing ]