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TR Mammoth 4-23-12
First day -
Ugh. First problem was this (from Victorville Daily Press website) - : Man dies after crashing into fire engine CAJON PASS -- A motorist was killed early Sunday morning on the Oak Hill Road offramp after he collided with a San Bernardino County Fire medic engine, fire officials said. Firefighters had just arrived at the scene of a roll over crash at about 6:45 a.m., when a driver in his 20s lost control of his vehicle striking the rear of the medic engine, Tracey Martinez, spokeswoman for the fire department said. One firefighter was transported to a local hospital with minor injuries. The Oak Hill Road offramp from northbound Interstate 15 was shut down. It took an hour and 15 minutes to get from the 138 exit (which I should have taken) to the top of the pass - about 8 miles. On the bright side, gasoline in Bishop was $3.659 at Von's with my 60 cents/gallon awards discount. Picked up my MVP pass at the ticket counter. I noted that the Senior Day Pass price was $64 today, although I think I could have gotten it for $59 online with my existing MyMammoth account. At those prices, it will take 6 days to offset the $329 MVP price - and today is my 6th day at Mammoth this year. As for the skiing - the mountain is now operating at reduced level - Chairs 1, 2, 3, 11 and the Gondolas. I saw them grooming up around Chairs 5 and 10, which I heard will be open on weekends only. The surface was hard and scratchy where it had been groomed, and heavy outside that. As skiers beat up the surface the sun warmed up, it turned to really nice spring corn. I could string together a short wedel run or dobig looping turns across the slope with equal ease. I had to go back to the car and remove a few layers because I was sweating so much I was starting to get itchy. After a few cooler runs, clouds came over the ridge and chilled me out. I was left in the incongruous position of feeling cold up top while fighting increasingly heavy slush down below, so I quit at about 1PM. It started raining and thundering soon after I got back to the hotel - I hope that was snow higher up. |
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TR Mammoth 4-23-12
On Apr 23, 8:12*pm, Richard Henry wrote:
First day - Ugh. First problem was this (from Victorville Daily Press website) - : Man dies after crashing into fire engine CAJON PASS -- A motorist was killed early Sunday morning on the Oak Hill Road offramp after he collided with a San Bernardino County Fire medic engine, fire officials said. Firefighters had just arrived at the scene of a roll over crash at about 6:45 a.m., when a driver in his 20s lost control of his vehicle striking the rear of the medic engine, Tracey Martinez, spokeswoman for the fire department said. One firefighter was transported to a local hospital with minor injuries. The Oak Hill Road offramp from northbound Interstate 15 was shut down. It took an hour and 15 minutes to get from the 138 exit (which I should have taken) to the top of the pass - about 8 miles. On the bright side, gasoline in Bishop was $3.659 at Von's with my 60 cents/gallon awards discount. Picked up my MVP pass at the ticket counter. I noted that the Senior Day Pass price was $64 today, although I think I could have gotten it for $59 online with my existing MyMammoth account. At those prices, it will take 6 days to offset the $329 MVP price - and today is my 6th day at Mammoth this year. As for the skiing - the mountain is now operating at reduced level - Chairs 1, 2, 3, 11 and the Gondolas. I saw them grooming up around Chairs 5 and 10, which I heard will be open on weekends only. The surface was hard and scratchy where it had been groomed, and heavy outside that. As skiers beat up the surface the sun warmed up, it turned to really nice spring corn. I could string together a short wedel run or dobig looping turns across the slope with equal ease. I had to go back to the car and remove a few layers because I was sweating so much I was starting to get itchy. After a few cooler runs, clouds came over the ridge and chilled me out. I was left in the incongruous position of feeling cold up top while fighting increasingly heavy slush down below, so I quit at about 1PM. It started raining and thundering soon after I got back to the hotel - I hope that was snow higher up. Tuesday, April 24 I should have noted yesterday that Chair 6 is also running, although mostly I don't care about that lift. Because I have my MVP pass now, I was able to park right at the base of Chair 2, closer to the lift than any spot I got at Snow Summit or Bear Mountain this year. I got almost-first tracks on the fresh grooming that was a little softer than yesterday. Intermittent clouds and bright sun, so I had to delayer again like yesterday to cool down. Mammoth has been hosting a Far West Junior race camp this week. That meant a swath was roped off from lower Cornice around the base of Chair 23 into the Race Dept run on Fascination. That is not so big a deal, but it also limited access to St. Anton and trails nearby. When the training races were over about noon, they took down parts of the fences to open that all up pretty much untoucched, so that was really nice. However, I managed to find the top couple inches of a tree thawing up out of the snowpack down there, which gave me my only good fall of the day. After that I put on the helmet I had borrowed from my son. Despite the occasional clouds, the surface slushed up again like yesterday, so I packed up and left a little before 2 PM. Another irrelevancy - a truck hit a utility pole down in Round Valley just above Bishop yesterday, cutting optical fibers and knocking out all internet and most telephone coverage in Mammoth for most of the day. |
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