Skating Season!

November 22, 2005

It is the shortest of Mammoth's sports seasons, and some years it doesn't happen at all. It is the ice skating season—the season in late fall when the lakes freeze but snow has not accumulated on them. It's happening now. Ice is all over the place from about 9,000 feet up, although it's not thick enough to skate on yet. I was up at Ellery Lake and Tioga Lake on the Yosemite road this afternoon, and ice already was forming in large chucks.

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Welcome Back, Everybody!

November 10, 2005

By Bump DiamondMan About Town     A guy gets used to the shoulder season around here—no traffic, no lines anywhere for anything and, in fact, no people except local people who know each other.    That all changes this...

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Those Were Avvy Guns This Morning

October 26, 2005

By Bump DiamondMan About Town     Now *that's* an alarm clock, Ché.    Just after 6:30 this morning, Bobby Hoyt's Ski Patrol began testing the avalanche guns on Mammoth Mountain.  The target was over by Chair 9, so everybody...

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