Mammoth Mountain Ski Area reported 9" of new snow as of Tuesday morning so I decided to tour up in the lakes basin in hopes of finding powder skiing.
Low clouds hung around all morning with light precip off and on. Nice to see a wintery scene again.
Visibility was an issue in the higher open bowls, so I took a couple of fun runs here in the trees.
Next morning (yesterday) I hooked up with my buddy Ben and we toured back up in the Hammil zone.
No clouds today. There was a new melt/freeze crust on much of the lower to mid elevation snow, especially any aspect besides due north. Higher up was still consistently soft.
Ben nears our first transition below Hammil Cirque.
Then enjoys real nice snow for our first run.
Our tracks on the right.
We skinned back up for another run here. Hit the old crust occasionally but still a fine run.
The zone. Again, our tracks on right and left.
We then skinned over to TJ Bowl. The throat was tracked. Looked like a ski area, but we found plenty of fresh in the open bowl below. Starting getting heavy/sun affected about half way down, but still skied alright. Photo from a buddy taken the previous afternoon.
Great day. Hope we see some more winter before spring is over!
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I'll whisper as the wife would remark, "are you a teenager? " . . . but, sweeeeeet.
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