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Sunny January Day Skiing Mammoth

·Mammoth Lakes, California·#winter#family trip#skiing#sierra nevada#mammoth mountain
A ski resort scene with people queuing for a chairlift, snowy slopes, and forested mountains under a clear blue sky.

Mammoth for a change instead of our own hills, which meant a longer drive and a much longer line — Broadway Express was backed up through the whole corral when we got there, everybody with the same idea on a bluebird day. January is supposed to be one of the snowiest months here, 43 inches on average, but there wasn't a cloud all day and the runs were skiing hard and fast off the groomers.

We rode mostly in pairs, kids trading off between us chair to chair. Chair 4 ran through the trees and stayed out of the wind, so we lapped that side for a while. From up top the whole Minaret crest was out — jagged and completely white, the best long view I've had from this mountain.

Got all four of us stopped on one run long enough for a picture, girls balancing on their skis behind us, before somebody pushed off and the moment was over.

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