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[Peter]

I just got my Powder Magazine, and there is a really cool ad for Mammoth in it. It shows chair 14 buried up to the hanger arms of the chairs. It reads: "Don't worry, we'll have it dug out by November 9th." Anyone want to scan it? Does anyone else have cool butied lifts photos? Here is one from Mt Waterman: (not from the ad)

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[liftmech]

I saw that ad as well. I feel sorry for the poor bastards who did have to dig it out.

[Ontariodude]

Now that is a lot of snow

Will T. (ontariodude)

[Warren733]

That lift looks an awful lot like it is the old homade single chair at Mt.Waterman. It was upgraded with SLI carriers. Mt.Waterman ski area's future is uncerain.

[KZ]

Wow, that is Mt Waterman, chair 2 I belive. That picture was taken 2 seasons ago. I think a member posted it on the Mammoth forum in a trip report. Doesn't everyone just love when an add pretends what something is?

I agree it is a cool picture but false advertising!

Besides, I don't think the real one can get burried no matter how much it snows. It is 20-25 feet above the snow in these photos which has to be a 2-4 foot packed base.

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[Peter]

Are you saying that chair 14 wasn't really buried? As I stated in my first post, the picture from Mt Waterman is not the one in the ad. The picture in the ad is indeed chair 14 at Mammoth buried. I just posted the Waterman photo because it is another cool buried lift picture.

This post has been edited by Skier: 19 September 2006 - 02:48 PM

[SkiBachelor]

Can someone scan the ad from Powder Magazine because I'm kind of curious to see it now. None of the bookstores in my area carry Powder Magazine due to a sharp decline in skiing magazines these days.

[KZ]

Oh, ok I thought you were saying that photo was the ad.

I guess 14 could have been burried but that seems pretty crazy. I'd like to see the scan of the ad.

[coskibum]

i saw it in skiing or ski...i can't remember

[Callao]

Kind of a shoddy photo, but it shows the burial. Looks mostly like wind-blown snow.

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[jibij]

Here is is at 1280x1024

[Powdr]

That picture is *somewhat* false advertising, as that is from wind drifting. Chair 14 is on the N facing windward edge of the mountain. That spot is just before the top terminal and it get a lot of wind. A few yards to the W of that has no snow all season long. If they wanted to point out that Mammoth has tons of wind drift, then that is a good picture to do so.

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