Mammoth: January 2025: Day 3: Fresh snow, part 2

Mammoth

Jan 2025: Day 3: Fresh snow, part 2

Mammoth Mountain's kitchens make some massive donuts.

Turkey and cheese for early lunch at Canyon Lodge.

Garlic fries for snack at Mill Cafe.

Going up Chair 23.

Some dramatic skies.

Windy at the top. 40mph? 50mph? 53mph? 58mph? I think it closes at 60mph.

Snow blowing over Cornice.

Siva ready to go.

Siva starting down Cornice.

Siva did the express way down Cornice.

Restarting after a quick break.

Sunny skies from the bottom of Cornice.

Father and son.

Hot tub is busy.

Lan Lan and Chris making dinner.

Austin and Siva. Salmon.

Salmon.

Dinner is Chris' sinigang.

Chris' sinigang.

Lukas playing with his food.

Laughing.

Second day in a row of fresh snow! Spent the morning in meetings, so took the opportunity to gaze at the massive donuts that Mammoth Mountain's in-house bakery apparently crafts, yet managed to resist and have a much more healthy turkey sandwich instead. Eventually ended meetings and hit the slopes, ending up at Mill Cafe with Siva (including brief stop for some solid garlic fries), then at the top of Chair 23 and an even more windy Cornice, where Siva then did the express way down Cornice.

I took a much more leisurely ski down, where I found the snow, despite all the wind, honestly, pretty gloriously smooth and fast. Somewhere near the end of the day we caught up with Mike and Lucas, as Lucas hit the steeper slopes off Canyon Express as the afternoon came to an end.

Chris made sinigang for the group along with more fresh cookies, and it was essentially another solid day at Mammoth.