Mammoth Weekend

One of my first weekends back, I headed up to Mammoth with friends to hit the slopes at least once in 2010. Good conditions and great cruising on the mountain on Saturday. Despite my protests, I accompanied three of my more backcountry inclined friends up to the Sherwins on Sunday. I had to respond in force to the accusation that “I had no soul” because I didn’t like hiking.

Anyways Paul, Christina, Geoff and myself set off with our capable rescue dog/puppy Koda. He looks like a real go getter huh??

There was much debate on what route to go and where we would ski and I actually indulged Geoff in walking an extra two clicks up to the Rock Chute. I though there was no way we would do it, amazingly once we got up there we concluded if we could figure out a safe way to get in, it was definitely ski able.

This is the view of the chute from the bottom Apres ski.

PK on the way up with his canine escorts

Bald eagle on the way up

Me on the way in, I almost bit it on the way in. It would have been a long slide down.

Geoff right above me before we descended. The hardest part was getting in. I lost a ski 2/3 of the way down and had to one ski it the rest of the way down…a workout.

It was great while it lasted, then we had to shag our selves down through some heavy spring snow at the bottom and traverse a off-limits golf course. Back on deck it was definitely worth the trip.

Back to LA tomorrow…