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Hmmm… so I’m off to Park City on Wednesday and was hoping to ride on Thursday and Friday when the morning sessions of the conference let out… however, the conditions are not looking too promising.   2 runs are open and an 18″ base?  Sounds like Snow Summit. 

I’m checking with the bloggers at the Park City Mountain Resort to see what’s up, but I am not even sure if those conditions are worth the extra baggage fee.   Sigh.

If you can’t remember the Web site address of your local mountain, or you just want a quick rundown of the conditions where you are headed for snowboarding, check out the MSN Live Search snow report listing for resorts in the US or Canada.

from their blog: “With the winter in full swing, we’re excited to announce snow reports for skiers and snowboarders! Search for any ski resort in the United States or Canada to get conditions before you head to the mountain. Links to the resort’s site and a link to a map are also shown.”

You can search by specific resort (type in “mammoth mountain”) and get details for that mountain, or for the conditions in a given area (such as “colorado snow report”) to get a quick breakdown of the 4 mountains in that area that received the most recent snow.

Pretty cool and handy! Check it out for yourself at http://search.live.com

From a Mammoth Dump Alert email this morning:

Snow Report for Thursday Jan 10

At 6am at Main Lodge it is 33 degrees. Temps should stay comfortable today in the upper 30’s. Clouds are hanging around and the winds are low. We may be in for a few scattered snow showers during the morning. At the summit it is 27 degrees with mild winds.

The 7-10 feet of fresh snow the last few storms left behind has made for excellent riding conditions all across the mountain. The coverage now allows for more exploration to find powder stashes and exciting natural features. If that’s not quite your thing, Mammoth also offers nearly 900 acres of smoothly groomed terrain on 89 runs with soft snow.

I’ll be there next weekend with Jessie, Leila, Miller Time and others; let’s hope the mountain gets even more snow between now and then!

Leaving work today at about 3:45pm (Hurrah for New Years weekend, early release!) I happened to look over to the east from where I was in Pasadena. When what to my wondering eyes did appear, snow on the higher elevation mountains in what I think are the eastern San Gabriels! It’s cool, because at that time of day the sun is beginning to set to the west and is casting really nice horizontally-slanted beams as it goes down, which highlighted the snow on the west-facing hills I was looking at.

We got a ton of rain late last week and I guess I just didn’t make the connection to getting snow locally. I believe I was looking at Mt. Baldy or at least some of the surrounding mountains (Baldy is a local resort just east of San Gabriel Valley/Claremont that I haven’t been to yet because of last year’s horrible dry winter. I understand it goes off when we get lots of snow in a season, fingers crossed!)

Here’s a picture I attempted to snap with my Blackberry - apparently it doesn’t do so well with distance shots But it is nice to be in Los Angeles and still have a nearby reminder of snow, snow, snow!

Thanks to Jessie for tipping me off on this… I shoulda known though, since it is raining in LA and that usually means snow, snow, and more snow in our favorite snowboarding resort, Mammoth.

Here’s the snow report from the official Mammoth Mountain web site’s snow report:

morning conditions
New Snow: 1-2 feet
Storm Totals: 12-24 inches so far
Depth: 12-20 inches
Surface Conditions: Fresh Powder,Obstacles Exist,Packed Powder
Weather

Conditions: snow
Morning temp: 21.1°
Daytime temps: mid 20’s
Wind: gusty

If you are headed up there this weekend, you are so lucky!

WOW!  37″ so far this season… where is Mammoth representing in all of this?

So far Mammoth has had virtually no snow this season.  They opened the weekend of November 8, but it’s been pretty warm up there.  Bummer!  I have no Mammoth trips planned just yet, because there is no snow!

Our Whistler trip, however… let’s hope that it keeps dumping up there!