Mammoth: March 2026: Days 2/3/4: Hoping for snow

Mammoth

March 2026: Days 2/3/4: Fresh snow

Dr. Wu hard at work.

Al pastor and cauliflower.

Dinner is served.

Al pastor and cauliflower.

Lucas loves the pool.

Doing their best cute expression.

Add in their son.

Salmon for dinner.

Rivian Adventure Network chargers are much better, 90kW (car limit, not charger limit).

One NACS plug on this charger, a CCS1 plug on the other one.

84kW at 62% strate of charge.

Menu at Good Life Cafe.

Chili verde breakfast burrito is massive.

Chili verde breakfast burrito is massive. Inside.

Inside.

That is a big burrito.

46 minutes and 34.3kWh, $19.90 to charge to from ~61% to 98%.

Pricing is way more reasonable than the $0.90/kWh the Westin wants for their very very slow charger.

Four more Rivian Adventure Network chargers in the same shopping center.

Fresh snow.

Someone's expressions tell it all about homework.

More pork.

Making cabbage.

Mushrooms and cauliflower.

Al pastor.

Dinner is served.

Without the small camera on this trip, not going to be any photos on the mountain...

With Chris out of commission the rest of the season, Dr. Wu took over cooking. Al pastor tacos one night, salmon the other, all pretty delicious. Hit the pool after the slopes, had a meal at Good Life Cafe as well (their chile verde breakfast burrito tastes okay, but holy cow it's huge) while charging at the brand-new Rivian Adventure Network chargers in town, and enjoyed some fresh snow near the end of the trip.

Rivian Adventure Network is much smaller than Tesla's Supercharger Network, but they seem to do stations with 50% NACS (J3400, aka Tesla) plug, and the other 50% with CCS1 plugs. Each charging station has only 1 cable as well, so will see if they convert the CCS1 stations in the future to NACS as the latter becomes more common? Charging rates vary but they're labeled online, and performance and maintenance, at least in these early days, appear to be good.