Nice shots 92122! Is that the Squaw Creek? We used to go to the bar there when I lived in Olympic Valley. The Squaw Creek lift actually has some great trees on storm day. It has some fun terrain that rarely gets skied.
Great shots Iceman! I would love to hit Corbets. Someday I will make it to Jackson. And Once is Enough is great. One of my regrets about my time in Tahoe is that I never got a truly great day at Kirkwood. Kirkwood is a great mountain, I just never got a powder day there.
The last four days at Mammoth have been pretty awesome. Thursday afternoon the top popped with about 10 inches of light snow. You would hit the crust underneath from time to time, but it was still fun. I got a fun Climax line and a couple of fun Paranoids lines before they shut it down. I saw a guy straightline Serbe's in the Top of the World which was INSANE!! The guy had some skills and made it look good. Friday was fun, with cutup pow all over the place. There were good and bad turns, plenty of crust underneath to hit, but still lots of fun. I skied some Paranoids laps and lots of Hangman's laps. Hangman's was fun but interesting, you would get a couple of good turns and a couple of bad turns in the chute, but the snow underneath was awesome. The wipeouts had some nice windbuff. Saturday was a storm day, by late in the day the new snow made for some nice pockets of fresh if you were in the right spot.
Sunday was a blast. The top felt like it had about a foot of snow between the stuff that was there and the stuff that fell on Saturday and Saturday night. You would still hit bottom from time to time, but there were some great turns, I even got a couple of faceshots in Paranoid 1. I was pretty much doing Hangman's and Paranoids laps. Hangman's was REALLY fun, maybe the best I have ever gotten it. Hangers was soft and super edgable up in the chute, then super soft underneath with pillows of powder. You could REALLY rail some powerful turns in the chute, so soft edgable and forgiving. I did a Philippe's lap which was interesting. By the time I got there the whole chute was scoured, it had either been scraped off or slid. The part of the chute above the rock/rollover section has firm bumps that are ledgy and weird. It is hard to get a fluid line going. After the rock/rollover section there were no more bumps, but it was still very firm, edgable but firm. It was a fun place to get some technical turns in. Below the chute was where all the snow had slid to form some beautiful powder pillows. That pow beneath was definitely worth the firm and technical turns above. The crowds were not THAT bad on Sunday. Some lines for the gondola, but really nothing terrible considering what I have seen this year. All in all it was a spectacular day.
If any of you are thinking about Mammoth I highly recommend it. They will be open until July 4th and the coverage is awesome. It really should be a great spring. With so much snow the slushy steeps will be a blast in May.
Great shots Iceman! I would love to hit Corbets. Someday I will make it to Jackson. And Once is Enough is great. One of my regrets about my time in Tahoe is that I never got a truly great day at Kirkwood. Kirkwood is a great mountain, I just never got a powder day there.
The last four days at Mammoth have been pretty awesome. Thursday afternoon the top popped with about 10 inches of light snow. You would hit the crust underneath from time to time, but it was still fun. I got a fun Climax line and a couple of fun Paranoids lines before they shut it down. I saw a guy straightline Serbe's in the Top of the World which was INSANE!! The guy had some skills and made it look good. Friday was fun, with cutup pow all over the place. There were good and bad turns, plenty of crust underneath to hit, but still lots of fun. I skied some Paranoids laps and lots of Hangman's laps. Hangman's was fun but interesting, you would get a couple of good turns and a couple of bad turns in the chute, but the snow underneath was awesome. The wipeouts had some nice windbuff. Saturday was a storm day, by late in the day the new snow made for some nice pockets of fresh if you were in the right spot.
Sunday was a blast. The top felt like it had about a foot of snow between the stuff that was there and the stuff that fell on Saturday and Saturday night. You would still hit bottom from time to time, but there were some great turns, I even got a couple of faceshots in Paranoid 1. I was pretty much doing Hangman's and Paranoids laps. Hangman's was REALLY fun, maybe the best I have ever gotten it. Hangers was soft and super edgable up in the chute, then super soft underneath with pillows of powder. You could REALLY rail some powerful turns in the chute, so soft edgable and forgiving. I did a Philippe's lap which was interesting. By the time I got there the whole chute was scoured, it had either been scraped off or slid. The part of the chute above the rock/rollover section has firm bumps that are ledgy and weird. It is hard to get a fluid line going. After the rock/rollover section there were no more bumps, but it was still very firm, edgable but firm. It was a fun place to get some technical turns in. Below the chute was where all the snow had slid to form some beautiful powder pillows. That pow beneath was definitely worth the firm and technical turns above. The crowds were not THAT bad on Sunday. Some lines for the gondola, but really nothing terrible considering what I have seen this year. All in all it was a spectacular day.
If any of you are thinking about Mammoth I highly recommend it. They will be open until July 4th and the coverage is awesome. It really should be a great spring. With so much snow the slushy steeps will be a blast in May.
