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?