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Old 02-08-2009, 08:43 AM
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Default Re: Snow and Ice.....

Very cool...as an aside...when we drove to Mammoth that year to ski (as we had done at least 30 times before that...and knew the drive like the back of my hand)...we actually figured out that we had missed the exit due to the excessive snow when we saw Mono Lake which was 29 miles past our turn off at Hwy 203! The drifts were 30+ feet high...


This is the kind of snow that was there...usually this lift (Chair 14) has a 50+ foot drop to the ground



Here's the trail map showing Chair 14 (been on it many times)






Current Mammoth picture





Mammoth Trail map...chair 14 is to the far right...



This spot was about 10 miles from my dad's place when he lived in Bishop. This picture is on Hwy 395 heading towards Bishop and away from Mammoth...cool photo from surfinside.com


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