Mammoth: January 2023 - the Continuum

Mammoth

January 2023

Last chaged in Mojave (about 90-95%?), arrived in Bishop with 22% left.

From 22% to 55% in 10 minutes. Enough to easily make it to Mammoth.

Now north of Bishop, looking at some lovely clouds.

Playing with his cars while semi-ignoring his mom.

Breakfast pickup, Whitebark at the Westin.

Summit of Mammoth Mountain on Saturday.

Creep cracks present.

Some sort of robot train cartoon.

Breakfast menu.

The complimentary breakfast menu is half the size of the full menu. WTF.

All American Breakfast with bacon.

Going up and down Schoolyard Express (Chair 17).

Snowing hard today.

Minion on the snow.

Snowing even harder in the afternoon.

Wu family dinner.

Monday breakfast.

All American Breakfast with sausage.

Displeased with his pancakes.

Gearing up for another chilly day.

About to step in.

Cloudier at the top.

Not as good as Saturday, but the fresh snow yesterday still made for some beautiful runs down from the top.

Clouds blowing by at the top.

Sun causing the snow to sparkle below Chair 10 (Gold Rush Express).

No whining. Top of High Five. (not even that hard!)

First time in recent memory that there was enough snow to ski across this bridge.

Momofuku instant noodles. Not bad, but hard to justify the price.

Lucas knows he's misbehaving.

Lincoln Mountain as viewed from High Five Express.

US-395 south of the airport.

Erick Schat's Baakery.

$150 worth of bread, plus one sandwich and a beef jerky.

What a black car looks like after driving up in the snow.

CHP escorting some massive metal bunker-ish wide load (electrical??).

Stuck behind another wide-load.

8 minutes and +21% charge. Not bad.

Mule kick sandwich from Schat's.

16 minutes, from 24% to 64%, sufficient charge.

Just the boys to Mammoth this trip-- and two adults having to trade off skiing and babysitting duties is definitely a handful. Uncle Brian is also definitely not grandma/grandpa and not even close to substituting for a parent, so poor Mike looked exhausted by the end of the trip.

Lucas is finally skiing a litle bit on his own though, so that's big progress for this season! Add in fresh snow on Sunday in addition to the tons of snow this season, and it's made for great skiing conditions. Even skiied all the way across the final bridge into the Village for the first time in recent memory, kind of a cool little accomplishment. Unfortunately with only two adults (and not the usual three or even four or five), all the skiing away from Schoolyard Express was all solo by each of us, so no team bombing off the top this trip.

Roadtripping in EV's continues. Tesla has a brand-new-to-me second supercharger in Mojave, and by topping off in Mojave, you can skip the very busy supercharge in Lone Pine, instead doing a quick 10 minute top-off in Bishop to make it all the way to Mammoth. The way down is even easier, only a single charging stop in Bishop required in a Model Y Dual Motor or Model 3 Dual Motor. And charing with the battery this empty (20-30%) means Tesla's very brief peak charging rates (greater than 250kWh), however brief, can be fully taken advantage of, meaning +33% charge in 10 minutes.