January 18, 2010 – 12:02 pm
Consider a ski resort town in the Sierras built on local pride – a bevy of locally-owned restaurants and bars intermixed with a couple imported chain restaurants and brand shops. A couple. Though not close by any sane standards – a minimum 5-hour road travel or 1-hour flight – Mammoth is to Southern California what [...]
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October 1, 2009 – 9:15 am
It’s that time, again. Time to get excited for the temperatures to get (a tad) chillier and the snow rain to fall - just because we know the rain is snow where we go. Yeah. This is L.A., home of the Mountain High or Bear Mountain park punks and Mammoth Mountain weekend warriors. I’m one of [...]
March 16, 2009 – 12:07 am
I can’t take any credit for having found out about it, but Katie’s brother Matt and his friends got a tip from a local about “the spot.” It was a place in Mammoth where you could get dropped off, view the entire town from the top of the slope while skiing down – and your [...]
February 20, 2009 – 12:23 pm
It may be somewhat ironic that I spend so much time snowboarding (15 riding days thus far) but have yet to blog about it more than a couple times this season. This season would be the one, though. I have a season pass to Mammoth – so it’s agiven that I do most of my [...]
January 20, 2009 – 1:53 am
I was born in January. I was told that when my mother was having contractions in the dead of winter, it was during a heavy snowfall and my father had to shovel the driveway before he could drive her to the hospital. I thrive in the winter.
Right.
I am the impostor “winter baby” who picked Southern [...]
December 30, 2008 – 2:29 pm
I’ve been meaning to check in and tell you what a blessed holiday I’ve been having. It’s a recap.
Currently, I’m in the middle of a week and a half-long vacation. It began with boarding in Mammoth for a couple days. We crammed 18 people into a small condo, which was walking distance to Canyon Lodge. [...]
November 11, 2008 – 12:28 am
I’d been up there enough times. I don’t really expect people to know this, per se, and well – all reckless behavior should be reprimanded at all times no matter committed by whom.
Apparently, my carelessness was as readily apparent as was slick the OneBallJay wax on the bottom of my snowboard (and actually, my board [...]
February 20, 2008 – 6:00 pm
I’m currently in the middle of my second stint of going to Mammoth three weekends in a row. This winter, I’ve stayed in Los Angeles only for certain occasions – Christmas, my birthday and Lunar New Year.
Yeah, it’s gotten pretty bad this year.
Admittedly, there would be no way to do this if not for my [...]
December 7, 2007 – 1:39 pm
Today, I’m leaving for Mammoth for the first trip of the season. It’s not coincidental that the first storm to descend upon the resort started yesterday.
*squeal*
And yet, I’m not packed. I haven’t even started. My jacket and pants are still hanging in my closet, my helmet’s still up on my shelf and my gloves are still stashed in my underwear miscellaneous [...]
December 3, 2007 – 1:57 pm
Burton, to me, has always been the over-hyped, over-priced stalemate of snowboarding. As the leading commercial brand of an anti-establishment culture, they inadvertently lumped themselves with the ’stablishment. They get away with overpricing their boards on the MSRP because people new to the sport don’t know anything else except Burton and those who don’t know [...]
