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January 05, 2008
by Colleen Dunn Bates
She was sprawled flat on her back midway down Sesame Street, her little arms spread-eagle and her snowboard straight up in the air. "I can't get up!" she shrieked. "For God's sake, Emma, stop screaming!" yelled her dad, who was about 50 feet downhill from her. "Just roll over and GET UP!" Snowboard rental: $30. Condo for the weekend: $1,300. Teaching your child to snowboard: your sanity. Or that's the way it can seem. And yet on any given day, the mountain is filled with happy gangs of parents and older kids. How did they get there? How did little Tyler and Sasha learn to ski without Dad having a coronary and Mom hitting the bottle?December 20, 2007
by Mammoth Local Staff
Heavy snow has prepared Mammoth for a robust holiday season. More than three feet of new snow fell on Mammoth Mountain in the storm that ended Thursday night, following winds that gusted up to 107.6 miles an hour at the summit of the 11,052-foot peak.December 17, 2007
by Mammoth Local Staff
With snow on the way to supplement a base of manufactured snow, Mammoth Mountain Ski Area will open Little Eagle Lodge on Thursday, Dec. 20, a resort official said. The opening, which will affect Chair 15/Eagle Express and Chairs 13 and 14, is due to coincide with a storm system that began early Monday with light snowfall and will continue through Thursday night.December 14, 2007
by Mammoth Local Staff
Online tributes continue to pour into the Mammoth forums Web site for Dave Ebbens, a beloved skier from Encinitas who died of injuries suffered while he was skiing in West Bowl on Monday, Dec. 10.by Mammoth Local Staff
Mammoth Mountain Ski Area opened Canyon Lodge on Friday, Dec. 14, and snow made its way into the forecasts for next week.November 21, 2007
by Mammoth Local Staff
Lack of early season snow has delayed the scheduled openings of the ski runs off Canyon and Eagle lodges, the Mammoth Mountain Ski Area announced Wednesday.November 05, 2007
by Mammoth Local Staff
In spite of a balmy autumn and not much measurable snow, Mammoth Mountain will open for skiing and boarding as planned on Thursday, Nov. 8, a ski hill spokesperson said.October 04, 2007
by Mammoth Local Staff
The world's top big-mountain skiers and snowboarders will compete in Mammoth in January as part of the Freeride World Tour, a new circuit that features athletes taking on some of the toughest terrain there is. The tour will stop in Mammoth Jan. 22-26.View image View image
October 03, 2007
by Mammoth Local Staff
Forecasters at the National Weather Service in Reno issued a winter storm watch for Mammoth and the southern High Sierra beginning Thursday, Dec. 6 and continuing into the early part of the weekend. Snowfall amounts that could exceed two feet are expected, the weather service said. After hedging their bets earlier in the day, the forecasters said the path of the storm on Tuesday afternoon became "a little more certain, and favors the central and southern Sierra, generally from Carson Pass south to the Mammoth Lakes area."September 20, 2007
by Mammoth Local Staff
Mammoth's Stacey Cook, along with World Championships medalists Julia Mancuso (Olympic Valley, Calif.) and Lindsey Kildow (Vail, Colo.), plus Olympic champion Ted Ligety (Park City, Utah) and first-time World Cup winner Steven Nyman (Provo, Utah) headline the 2008 U.S. Alpine Ski Team, which was named this week.August 28, 2007
by Mammoth Local Staff
Fresno halfpipe specialist Andy Finch, who rides out of Mammoth, won the Australian Open halfpipe snowboarding championship last weekend, while streaking Mason Aguirre of Mammoth finished ninth.August 01, 2007
by Mammoth Local Staff
A monument memorializing the three Mammoth Ski Patrollers who died in a horrific April 2006 accident will be dedicated in a public ceremony on the morning of Saturday, Aug. 25, at the top of Mammoth Mountain.July 13, 2007
by Mammoth Local Staff
Two-time Olympic silver medalist Danny Kass of Mammoth on Wednesday, July 11 took home the $10,000 top spot in the Abominable Snow Jam halfpipe competition at Mt. Hood.May 31, 2007
by Mammoth Local Staff
The new Chair 9 "sixpack" lift is to be called "Cloud Nine Express," officials at Mammoth Mountain Ski Area announced on Thursday. The new name for the venerable chairlift, which is to become a high-speed, six-passenger lift, is a result of an online contest to name it.May 28, 2007
by Mammoth Local Staff
The ski season ended on Monday, May 28, in much the way it started: sparse snow, not very many people and a load of fun for the few who were there.May 16, 2007
by Mammoth Local Staff
Members of eight U.S. Ski Teams have been using Mammoth this week to train for next season. "They like to come to Mammoth in the spring because they know we'll have snow," said Mammoth Mountain spokesperson Joani Lynch.May 09, 2007
by Mammoth Local Staff
The old Chair 9 will become a high-speed, six-pack lift in spite of months-long plans to make it a quad. What changed? "The heavier six-passenger lift is being installed instead of a quad lift to allow it to operate in higher winds," a Mammoth Mountain spokesperson said.May 07, 2007
by Brandon Russell
It's nearly 8:30 on a blustery November morning and Mammoth's young and restless have been at it for nearly an hour. A keg of beer is open in the Main Lodge parking lot; pancakes are cooking on a makeshift truck-bed fry kitchen and there's a buzz in the air reminiscent of the hour before the top opens after a week-long January dump.by Mammoth Local Staff
Former U.S. Snowboarding Halfpipe Head Coach Bud Keene was named the 2006 National Coach of the Year by the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) at a luncheon held Thursday, May 3, in collaboration with the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports in Washington.April 30, 2007
by Mammoth Local Staff
In addition to the nighttime Rail Jam and the halfpipe competition at Mammoth Mountain, the party this year has extreme snowmobile demos and live hip-hop concerts.April 20, 2007
by Mammoth Local Staff
Mammoth Mountain will try to stay open through the Memorial Day weekend, a resort spokesperson said on Friday. "If we can ski down Broadway, Broadway Express will keep running," said Dana Vander Houwen, the communications manager.April 18, 2007
by Mammoth Local Staff
The number of skiers and snowboarders at Mammoth Mountain is down by 23 percent, while revenue at the ski area is down by 18 percent, according to Rusty Gregory, the CEO of Mammoth Mountain Ski Area.April 16, 2007
by Mammoth Local Staff
The Mammoth Ski Museum's 2008 calendar, featuring 12 vintage ski posters from its collection, was released on Monday, April 16, according to Mammoth Lakes Foundation development director Ruth Harrell.April 06, 2007
by Mammoth Local Staff
On the one-year anniversary of the deaths of three ski patrollers on Mammoth Mountain, the ski area on Friday, April 6 posted a "We Won't Forget" memorial on its Web site, while friends and family of James Juarez gathered for a short memorial at the top of the 11,052-foot ski hill.April 03, 2007
by Monica Prelle
The Francis Couloirs were steep and a brilliant blue. High, snow-covered walls allowed us to make drawn-out turns, gliding in a singsong manner, pushing fluffy snow into fans overhead. We regrouped at the moraine below and gazed back at the terrain we had just descended. My body pulsed with energy and elation. "That was sick," Carlton said. "Like surfing."March 13, 2007
by Mammoth Local Staff
Daron Rahlves, widely regarded as the most successful American speed racer of all time, will appear at the Dave McCoy College Classic March 16-17 at Mammoth Mountain.March 06, 2007
by Bump Diamond
The wind on Mammoth Mountain is famous - infamous, some might say. But for the people who ski here regularly, it's one of Mammoth's greatest assets. Wind? It's a good thing.by Mammoth Local Staff
The "Top of the Sierra Interpretive Center," a long envisioned project for the 11,053-foot top of Mammoth Mountain Ski Area, will open March 17 with a ribbon cutting ceremony at 11 a.m., ski area officials announced on Tuesday.View image
March 04, 2007
by Mammoth Local Staff
To someone whose business is health, nightmare scenarios are pretty easy to find. Even in a ski town like Mammoth, where fitness counts for a lot on the hill and the cross country ski trails, herbalist and acupuncturist Jean Drummond has seen some really frightening stuff. "A bag of chips, a glazed doughnut, deep-fried hash browns from a fast-food joint and a couple of cups of coffee loaded with sugar and cream - now that is the worst breakfast for a skier I can imagine," said Drummond. "There's no nutrition in there at all, just fat and sugar and caffeine. That's one skier who will feel pretty good for about an hour and then the caffeine and sugar high will wear off and he'll crash - hard." Drummond helps people figure out how to be healthier.February 27, 2007
by Monica Prelle
It was one of those characteristic bluebird powder days, the kind that Mammoth Mountain had over and over again in the 2005/06 season. That morning was particularly cold and the snow was sugary and deep. After a few laps warming up, waiting for something (anything) on the top to open, I ran into a few girlfriends.February 19, 2007
by Jack Copeland
One day recently I woke up and I was fifty-five. I didn't feel that different. It seemed like just another day. Heck, fifty-five, that's not so bad. It's better than being dead. But then I went skiing. Something horrible happened. My body no longer listened to me. I sent it messages. It ignored me. My coordination and timing abandoned me. My knees began to hurt. My back developed a strange, nagging pain.February 08, 2007
by Brandon Russell
A plaque honoring four ski patrollers who were killed in two separate accidents last winter was presented to the Town Council, Wednesday, February 7 by Mammoth resident Leigh Gaasch. "This plaque belongs to the town and people of Mammoth," Gaasch said. "Take care of it for James, Greg, Johanna and John."February 06, 2007
by Brandon Russell
Spring shredding at its best brought many of the world's top snowboarders to Mammoth for the West Coast Invitational the first weekend of May, but it was the snowmobilers, and their crashes, who stole the show at the two-day event.January 31, 2007
by Mammoth Local Staff
Soldiers wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan arrived in Mammoth on Tuesday, Jan. 30, then took to the mountain as part of the "Wounded Warrior" program.View image
January 27, 2007
by Mammoth Local Staff
June Mountain Ski Area closed for the season on Sunday, Jan. 28, because of a lack of snow, resort officials announced.January 21, 2007
by Bump Diamond
Mammoth Mountain CEO Rusty Gregory, now a member of Barry Sternlicht's globetrotting Starwood Capital gang, is preparing for his second trip to Russia in as many months as the company looks to acquire Russian properties. In particular, Starwood, the principal owner of Mammoth Mountain Ski Area, is looking to possibly acquire Krasnaya Polyana, a resort in the Caucasian Mountains near the Black Sea.by Moz Coast
Skiing down a groomer in a nasty windstorm, I was surprised when something blowing across the hill wrapped itself around my head in an instant and covered my goggles. I skidded to a stop and grabbed for the object. Women's panties?January 20, 2007
by Mammoth Local Staff
Forecasters at the National Weather Service, as well as local forecaster Howard Sheckter, say there is no snow in sight for the snow-starved Sierra, although a system may possibly rumble through the mountains around Groundhog Day.January 04, 2007
by Mammoth Local Staff
June Mountain Ski Area is set to open Friday with a limited number of runs, thanks to a snowfall on Thursday. Conditions permitting, Mammoth's sister hill expects to have four chairlifts in operation tomorrow: J1, J2, J3 and J7. Still closed are the chutes, Deer Bowl, Davos Drop, Powder Chute and Sunset.by Mammoth Local Staff
Events in the West Coast Invitational have been reset because of snow, wind and cold temperatures, according to Mammoth Mountain Ski Area.by Mammoth Local Staff
Mammoth Mountain, the scene of eight deaths in a particularly tragic 2005-06 ski season, will participate in the National Ski Areas' Association Safety Awareness Week Jan. 13-19, the ski area announced.December 26, 2006
by Bump Diamond
When Philippe Mollard made the greatest run ever down Mammoth Mountain, practically no one was there to see it, in spite of what many people have said and heard in the quarter century since. Dozens of people claim to have seen his run -- straight down Climax, with no turns -- but Mollard, a native Frenchman and at the time a ski instructor at Mammoth, says it is not so. "I was by myself," he said in a heavy French accent. "There was one ski patrolman at the top of the mountain, outside the gondola station." It was early in the morning, in the spring, on a weekday. Mollard, 27 years old at the time, recalled it as late March or in April. The year was 1968, two seasons after the gondola to the top of Mammoth Mountain was completed.View image
December 22, 2006
by Mammoth Local Staff
The string of nine World Cup alpine podiums by five U.S. skiers in six days, including the first victory of their career for Olympic champion Julia Mancuso (Olympic Valley, CA) and Steven Nyman (Provo, UT), is unprecedented for the U.S. Ski Team.December 19, 2006
by Mammoth Local Staff
Olympic giant slalom champion Julia Mancuso (Olympic Valley, CA), healthy after a weekend stomach illness, earned her first World Cup victory Tuesday at Val D'Isere, winning a downhill with teammate Lindsey Kildow (Vail, CO) in third place.December 18, 2006
by Mammoth Local Staff
In an historic moment, Olympic champion Ted Ligety of Park City gave the U.S. men's alpine team a World Cup podium finish for the fourth consecutive day, finishing second in a slalom.December 17, 2006
by Mammoth Local Staff
Bode Miller said making continual adjustments to his new-this-season Head skis in the last two weeks have helped improve his feel and results.by Mammoth Local Staff
Mammoth snowboarders Tommy Czechin (pictured), Kelly Clark and Mason Aguirre dominated Saturday's halfpipe qualifying at Brekinridge, Colo., with the veteran Czechin besting a huge field of 105.by Mammoth Local Staff
Olympian Steven Nyman (Provo, UT), overcoming training troubles and riding "magic sticks," tore through the gnarly Saslong speed course Saturday to win the first World Cup of his career, edging Swiss veteran Didier Cuche by two-hundredths of a second.December 15, 2006
by Mammoth Local Staff
Despite little natural snow, the lifts at Canyon and Eagle Lodges opened as scheduled to skiers and boarders today.by Mammoth Local Staff
Reigning super G world champion Bode Miller (Bretton Woods, NH) nailed the top section and kept ripping down the Saslong course Friday to win a World Cup super G, the 23rd victory of his career and first win at Val Gardena.December 12, 2006
by Mammoth Local Staff
Restaurant Skadi raised $1,320, Monday night to benefit Mammoth Nordic's recent purchase of a CAT. Three times as many people showed up at the event than was expected.by Mammoth Local Staff
Canyon and Eagle Lodges will open Friday, according to a spokesperson for Mammoth Mountain Ski Area.December 10, 2006
by Mammoth Local Staff
Mammoth finally got some measurable snow on Saturday night and Sunday, forcing residents back behind their snowblowers and crews into the cabs of their plows for the first time this season.December 05, 2006
by Mammoth Local Staff
Mammoth Mountain Ski Area is spending about $4,000 a day feeding a workforce that has been idled by the lack of snow so far this season.by Bump Diamond
Lincoln Mountain is about to be unmasked. With a lodge development planned at the base of the high-speed, six-pack Eagle Express (Chair 15) and the imminent reconfiguration of Chair 9 into a high-speed lift, Lincoln Mountain is poised to become a major portal to the Mammoth Mountain Ski Area.December 02, 2006
by Mammoth Local Staff
Mammoth Mountain Ski Area this past week announced the formation of the Mammoth Mogul Team. The team is designed to help bump skiers develop their skills. The Mogul Team is open to adults who are serious all-mountain skiers looking to focus on competitive style mogul skiing.November 29, 2006
by Bump Diamond
U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association officials said Wednesday, Nov. 29, that they could not hold additional World Cup ski races in America following cancellations in Europe.November 24, 2006
by Mammoth Local Staff
Finally, Mammoth might get a little snow the way Mother Nature intended it. A developing storm in southwest Canada is forecast to bring snow and wind to the Sierra by Sunday afternoon, with "potential for heavy snow at times."November 22, 2006
by Mammoth Local Staff
The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) announced its domestic TV schedule on Wednesday. It has 10.5 hours on NBC, weekly coverage through most of the season on Versus and complete coverage of nearly every World Cup event on WCSN.com.November 21, 2006
by George Shirk
When discussing Mammoth's Main Lodge, Rusty Gregory likes to tell people that there are more Search and Rescue calls for lost people inside the building than in the entire backcountry. That story is always good for a laugh because it touches a common nerve.November 15, 2006
by Brandon Russell
The scene is Mammoth Mountain. The time is the middle of the night. The season is dead of winter, the altitude is 9,000 feet and outside, snow is coming down in great, heavy loads, whipped by swirling, 90-mile-an-hour winds. The assignment is straightforward: Keep the roads to the ski area open, keep the snow groomed and help get the ski lifts running as fast as possible in the morning. This is a Clifford Mann kind of night, and the odds are not in the storm's favor.November 14, 2006
by George Shirk
Once the loneliest of all of Mammoth Mountain's lonely extensions, the Chair 15/Eagle Express area is about to go big-time, and soon.November 09, 2006
by Brandon Russell
About 100 skiers and snowboarders, including first-chair rider and Mammoth local Tony Guerriero were in line for the first chair, celebrating Mammoth Mountain's opening day Thursday, even if conditions weren't exactly epic.November 08, 2006
by Bump Diamond
Despite very little natural snow on the ground and no storms in the short-term forecast, Mammoth Mountain Ski Area was set to open on Thursday, Nov. 9, with one lift on top of a base of less than a foot of manufactured snow.November 02, 2006
by Bump Diamond
Mammoth Nordic, the cross-country ski club that has lobbied the town for years to groom its trail network, is putting its money where its mouth is. The club is set to purchase a $45,000 cat that will pull a groomer...by Mammoth Local Staff
A new ski and snowboard guide specifically for Mammoth began distribution this week. Published by Mammoth Monthly magazine, the 2006-07 Ski and Snowboard Special features a gear guide tailored for Mammoth's snow conditions, a calendar of events that stretches into March 2007 and a comprehensive restaurant and bar guide.October 26, 2006
by Bump Diamond
Crews on Mammoth Mountain have begun covering Broadway with artificial snow. Opening Day is Thursday, Nov. 9.October 07, 2006
by Mammoth Local Staff
State regulators have fined Mammoth Mountain Ski Area $50,000 for several job safety violations related to the deaths of three ski patrol members earlier this year.September 29, 2006
by Mammoth Local Staff
Mammoth Olympian Stacey Cook, along with Olympic champions Ted Ligety of Park City and Julia Mancuso of Olympic Valley, were named to headline the 2007 U.S. Alpine Ski Team, according to the United States Ski and Snowboard Association.September 27, 2006
by Bump Diamond
The base of Chair 5 would be moved and the chairlift would turn into a detachable quad in the 2007-2008 season if Mammoth Mountain Ski Area plans are approved.September 20, 2006
by Bump Diamond
Mammoth Mountain lift construction workers are busy installing five lift towers near the top of Chair 9 -- the first phase of a project that will turn the slowest chairlift on the ski hill into a high-speed, detachable quad for the 2007-08 ski season.September 13, 2006
by Mammoth Local Staff
Sprinters Andy Newell (Shaftsbury, VT), who produced the first U.S. World Cup podium in over two decades last winter, and Kikkan Randall (Anchorage, AK), who produced the alltime best U.S. women's Olympic cross country finish, are among 14 athletes named to the 2007 U.S. Cross Country Ski Team.