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Well hello!  After a LONG delay since my last post near the end of the 08-09 snowboarding season (at the end of which I made a final trip to mammoth but didn’t even write about it, how lazy!)  at long  last I am back.

It’s been a long slow summer and I was feeling not really enthused about boarding this winter even though I have a Mammoth Mountain season pass so my riding days are basically paid for.  This is because I’m currently inbetween jobs and so trying to plan trips is kinda sketchy with the money situation.  But, I still wanna get out there and enjoy life regardless, because in the end, all you really take with you are your memories and life experiences. 

OK enough philosophizing!

Taking advantage of my current status of “funemployment,” on Monday, Dec.  14, 2009 my good friend Tone and I made a day-trip up to Snow Summit.  We bought cheap tickets from someone on Craigslist and made it up there in 2 hours.  The conditions were great since on Sat/Sun the entire SoCal area had big winter storms - rain in LA and of course nice snow in the higher elevations.

It was completely empty because it was Monday, people weren’t off for the holidays just yet, and of course the ever-present “economic situation” has definitely affected people’s disposable income.

We did get to the mountain a little bit later than was planned, but we still squeezed in about 10 runs apiece.  Tone was a good fast skier - after all he did grow up in Colorado!  There was good coverage everywhere and we went down almost all the different runs available (although we did not hit the park.)  It got warmer and a little slow/melty later in the day - I learned my board definitely needs waxing before I head up to Mammoth in two weeks.

All in all it was a good warmup day and I’m looking forward to our 3 days in Mammoth starting on 1/15/10 (which is my birthday!) 

It was cold enough that they were blowing snow on a few of the runs and had them closed.

As always, Big Bear Lake is beautiful and scenic!