Not a ton of snow, but well enough for some nice tree runs!
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Off to Denver, Colorado
With a few days off for Christmas and nothing to do I thought a last minute quick trip to Colorado would do me good!
With my usual luck, the flight was delayed – which gave me time for a couple of IPA’s.
Airports at Christmastime is always fun!
Big Bear
Big Bear just open up, conditions were not awesome, but it’s nice to stand on some snow!
I dropped my phone on the pavement and cracked the screen, I think it’s time to get the iPhone 5 now.
Mammoth Sunday
As long as there’s no “flat light” or just pure ice, I dont really care what the snow conditions are like, I think all of them has its charm. Fresh powder is off course my favorite, but I can also appreciate some slushy spring snow (or leg breaking/knee busting snow as I like to call it), or a well prepared slope where you can go really fast! Today was a go really fast day, and the good thing with a bad season is that there’s not a lot of people in your way!
Going home after another great weekend in Mammoth!
Another Weekend in Mammoth
I had so much fun in Mammoth last weekend so I decided to go up again this weekend. Woke up to almost blue skies!
The clouds later rolled in and even if the snow wasn’t as good as last weekend, my boots – that I was ready to toss last weekend, treated me very well and my feet did not hurt at all. Now I am gonna have to think twice about getting a new pair for next season.
Mammoth Day 2
There were some “dusting” overnight, so I made a point of getting up early for some great fresh snow. I got to borrow a better camera today as well. Doesn’t this make you want to go skiing?
We only stayed at the mountain half day so we could get back to LA fairly early, but we wanted to stop by the hot springs on the way home. We made a wrong turn and ended up by a hot creek instead – that wasn’t very hot…
Came back to LA in time for dinner – noodles at my favorite restaurant in Sawtelle.
Mammoth
It’s been a pretty poor season this far with not much snow, but I was super excited to go skiing this weekend! I guess a little too excited as I forgot to bring the battery to my camera… had to rely on the good old iPhone today!
After ski in the hot tub!
More Cake
There’s a lot of birthdays this week so we decided to run into Whole Foods and grab some treats.
We’re going up to Mammoth this weekend so I had to wax my skis!
Heading Back Home
Bummed out to be heading back home 🙁
We did have some time for a last glass of wine.
Cerro Catedral day 2
I never wanted to go to bed last night, so much to chat about! But when everyone else was tucked up in bed and I only heard some occasional mhmm from the bunk beds, I thought it might be time.
It kept on snowing throughout the night, but we saw some blue spots on the sky when we woke up. We were all really tired in the morning but quickly forgot about it when we started to bread the fresh mountain breeze.
Due to the heavy snowfall, even more lifts were closed this morning. We wanted to get to one part of the mountain to another. You can usually do this by a chairlift that was closed today, or by going all the way down to the base and go up with another lift. We didnt want to go down and stand in line again, it’d be a lot quicker if we just traversed around that peak… We asked the ski patrol where we could hike and ski, they said we could go anywhere we wanted expect for one peak that he pointed out for us. He also told us to YouTube why:
We took his word for it and traversed over our little peak, it was not very far, and not very steep and wooha, a whole field open up!
Tagging the mountain is always fun!
This was the last day of skiing and the time went by way to fast. Me and Danny are preparing for a long trip back to LA while Magnus and Johan are gonna stay for another 3 weeks.