Mammoth: February 2020: Day 1

Mammoth

February 2020: Day 1

Breakfast burger from Eggy Weggy at the food court, EWR Terminal C. Not bad.

Crowded, as half of it is closed due to contruction.

Airplanes in the EWR penalty box.

Lots of Boeing metal.

WIdebodies for days. Boeing 767-400 in the foreground.

737 with the new livery to the right. Dead center looks like a new 777-300ER.

Sunrise takeoff from EWR, looking at New York City in the distance.

Approach to DEN.

Fields and ... what are those rows?

Crops grow here at other times.

Gross. But better than what's at Mammoth's airport.

Landed in Mammoth.

Bed in the foreground is broken.

View from above.

Mike and Chris hard at work.

Chris' dry aged porterhouse.

Searing via a mini-cannon.

Dinner is served.

Medium rare.

The spread.

Early morning departure from New York usually means a smooth ride on the Newark Airport Express bus (too early for traffic!), although construction in the terminal meant things were a bit more chaotic than usual. And if the roads were empty, well, EWR was pretty busy-- tons of airplanes parked on the tarmac in the penalty box, waiting for their turn.

Smooth flight to DEN, juuust enough time to wolf down a rather gross "meal" from City Wok in the food court, and then a relatively quick flight to MMH. Low clouds meant no view, but the wind wasn't too bad. Definitely better than it was a few hours before, when winds were so bad the SFO-MMH flight couldn't land (!).

Then a miscommunication meant no skiing for me today. ;_; Got to stand next to Matt's car for more than two hours waiting for him and Chris to come back, instead despite multiple messages they stayed on the mountain... oops.

In any case, finally met up with everyone closer to 4pm, finally got into the condo, no one died from Chris' dry aged steaks, and Chris managed to avoid setting the condo on fire. We can call that close enough to a win?