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Started by heavenly_romer, Jul 03 2005 07:10 PM

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#1 heavenly_romer

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Posted 03 July 2005 - 07:10 PM

We just got back from skiing at mammoth for 4 days. We left on Wednesday 10 hours late, at 10 PM, and pulled into the mammoth mountain inn at about 5 am. It was a pretty crazy trip. We took a lot of stops along the way to avoid falling asleep. Since it was dark from the minute we left, I could not get any shots of tioga pass going east. I took pics today on the trip home, so I will post them at the end.

After we pulled in at 5 AM, I slept for about 3 hours and was on the gondola by 9 AM. I credit coffee and cliff bars with getting me enough energy to do so...

Climax (I took about 10 runs on this run for the first day because I did not have the energy to explore the limited terrain that was open)
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Chair 23...I didn't know if they would open it up for the weekend (which they did) so I got some pics of it as I passed...
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The sign. It was depressing to see it so tall...
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The minarets...
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Chair 1 (broadway) line...
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The upper mountain...
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The main run at the bottom. They worked hard to keep snow on the lower mountain. By about 8 PM, a lot of the snow melted away, leaving huge bald spots. By next morning, they were covered up with more snow...
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Thats all for the 1st day of skiing. More to follow...
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#2 heavenly_romer

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Posted 03 July 2005 - 07:33 PM

I didn't take any pics on friday, so this is saturday...

Now that I had more energy, I decided to take a little hike to the left of chair 23 and do scotty's. There was a fairly narrow "trail" that prior skiers had cut out of the sun cups...
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Saddle Bowl and the gondola from chair 23...
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After skiing on saturday, we drove up to june and I checked out the base and took some pics of J1...
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The QMC tram line...
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#3 heavenly_romer

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Posted 03 July 2005 - 07:41 PM

The gondola at the midstation turn...
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Chair 23 top terminal...
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#4 heavenly_romer

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Posted 03 July 2005 - 07:55 PM

Time for tioga pass. I was taking pics all the way up, but the reflection off the car window was terrible, so I'll only post the ones I took when we stopped...

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From Olmstead point...
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Posted 03 July 2005 - 10:48 PM

Looks fun. I wanted to go this weekend but it never materialized. Too bad you didn't go up by the conference center at june because the QMC cabins and hanger arms are hiding back there.
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Posted 05 July 2005 - 08:53 AM

Here's more pics:


Top of climax
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Mt. Lincoln from the top of the world
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Mammoth from 395
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Looking down towards town
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From the top of scotty's run
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Posted 05 July 2005 - 04:16 PM

Wow, "Chair 23" upper terminal looks awesome. Is that a Yan?

I am really missing the boarding. I can't wait for winter again...

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Posted 05 July 2005 - 07:14 PM

The Terminal is a Mammoth Creation i beleive. It's there to prevent the massive dumps from covering the terminal and to prevent excessive riming of the top terminal. The doors on either side are closeable.

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Posted 05 July 2005 - 08:03 PM

Its mainly to keep the wind off. It's a yan lift that unloads on a windy spur of mammoth mountain. On a nasty day without the covering the haul rope would probably easily derail. It's nasty up there with winds to 150+ mph.
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#10 heavenly_romer

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Posted 07 July 2005 - 08:33 AM

If you look closely you can see that a few windows were blown out this year. During huge dumps, the whole terminal can get filled in with snow and the majority has to be shoveled out by hand, espeically at the beginning of the tunnel.
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#11 heavenly_romer

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Posted 07 July 2005 - 12:46 PM

Its time to start counting (for mammoth at least)
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http://www.hilltopre...thcountdown.htm

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