California’s First Big Dump: Mammoth Gets Ready
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- October 13 2009
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A massive Pacific storm has smacked into the Western U.S. and California’s coast is seeing flash flooding up near Santa Cruz and torrential downpours in L.A.—for the West Coast mountains, this means: snow. The Eastern Sierras are already under several inches and the winds are whipping. The good news—according to weather.com, “this is just the beginning. The rain and heavy wind that is slamming northern California this morning is just the beginning of a 2 to almost 3-day event that will not only impact California but eventually the interior West, too.” The crews at Mammoth Mountain are already at work—readying themselves for the first major dump of the season. Mammoth’s PR Manager Daniel Hansen reported only moments ago, “The storm is looking great right now. It started snowing around 7am at Main Lodge and is now coming down pretty strong—about 4 inches on the ground right now. Everyone here is pretty stoked. If this storm lives up to its hype, we might be spinning the lifts a bit early this year. There is definitely potential.” At 5:30 this morning, the National Weather Service issued a Special Weather Advisory for Mono County—high winds and precip from a storm they are characterizing as “intense.” We’ve got our fingers crossed and hope—like you—that we’re motoring up to Mammoth Mountain sooner than later.
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October 13th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
Logan Hunter Jeffs will fuk the powder out of this storm if he has to.
October 13th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
FUCK YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
October 13th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
I wish i lived in cali
October 14th, 2009 at 12:12 am
you guys should probably check out NOAA.gov for a legit weather report. Weather.com is amateur hour, c'mon I thought this was a high quality snowboarding site.
October 14th, 2009 at 12:17 am
FUCK YEAH I CANT WAIT TO USE MY PASS IN MAMMOTH!
October 14th, 2009 at 2:05 am
AHHHH
i live in alaska and we should have around a foot of snow
but at the moment it is sunny, 60 degrees, and dry
October 14th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
dumpin bucketts
October 14th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
gotta love that wet cement snow
October 14th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
so glad im moving to mammoth this winter!
October 14th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
I'm stuck in rhode island have fun out there
October 15th, 2009 at 12:19 am
FREE lift tickets on opening day- FRIDAY OCT 16
October 15th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
orr on thesnow.com you nubbs