Mammoth Lakes is known for its world-class skiing and snowboarding, as well as the majestic Sierra Nevada wilderness that surrounds the remote California town.
On Monday, however, Mammoth Lakes also became known for having filed for bankruptcy in the face of a $43-million breach-of-contract judgment brought against the town by a developer.
These days the younger generation plays video games for thrills, we used to have to go out and risk our lives (well ok maybe just serious injury) just so we could get a thrill.
Same with cars I think, need a speed thrill, just play a racing video game.
Very few teens and twenty something’s out on the slopes compared to my generation anyway.
This is very, very unfortunate. I was just there in late January and they had plenty of snow and almost 3/4 of the mtn open for skiing/riding.
Mammoth Mtn has the best and most varied “high-desert-type” skiing in the world! You get the best of all worlds there … lots of dry snow, incredible snowmaking ability and warmish desert winds blowing over in mid-day, enabling the skier/rider to just wear two layers on top or a vest. Of course, face masks are often needed on two of their lifts :=0
I learned to ski in Winter Park, CO on “poma” lifts and rope tows when lift tix were $4-$6 per day, lol.
And yeah, I had skinny Atomic Arc 195s and Dynastar 185s back in the day as well :=]
Now I ski on 173cm shaped “twin tips” and am now too old to be taught to ski backwards with them :=0
As soon as I get more time today, I’ll look at the developer case and its judgment. Does anyone know if the town already appealed?
[quote=sdduuuude]Isn’t there an annual ski sale in San Diego somewhere – maybe in the Summer – where you can get deals on ski stuff ?[/quote]
Yes, its at the Del Mar Fairgrounds and is usually scheduled the 2nd or 3rd Saturday in August. It features unsold inventory from sporting goods stores in the Western US from the last 3-4 model years.
When I was a twenty something, lift tickets were between 40 and 45 dollars (which was about 35% of my take home pay for the week), Bear mountain, summit and Wrightwood would routinely sell out, all the bottom chairs would take about 25-30 minutes to get through the line.
Now it’s about 60 -65 dollars and most of the chairs take 2-3 minutes to get through the line.
There are a lot less local skiers/boarders these days.
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