Before we left Vegas, we had a quick bet for Joe - $20 on roulette, he came away with $10. Then we had the task of trying to get everything in the car - Oh yeah did I forget to mention we bought a suitcase?! Luckily 10 minutes later we were on our way, with the boot absolutely jam packed. We programmed our next hotel into the TomTom - 8 hours it said. A few sighs and and we were off! We passed through some near derelict towns, and some really pretty ones. There were a few scary moments like last [View Full Entry]

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Hey everyone! so this one is going to be a short blog- i just wanted to send at least a few pictures and check in.....so right now i'm in mammoth- 902 miles under my legs so far- and feeling sore but in the best shape of my life! I'm staying at my friend Shannon's place in Mammoth- a Villanova softball teammate- so it's been awesome seeing her and having a home to relax in. We got through the end of the desert, with lucky cooler weather- had some awesome times at some trail angel's houses- the Saufleys and the Andersons- its [View Full Entry]

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Call me crazy but who gets up at 1:30am and drives 5 hours just to hike around and drive back? Only I would do something as spontaneous as that. At 10:00pm Saturday night, I was just lounging around telling myself that I should go on a mini road trip. Since it was already pretty late, I doubt anybody would have wanted to tag along on such short notice. I decided that I would drive up to Mammoth Lakes and visit the Devil's Postpile National Monument. So I went to bed hoping to get a few hours sleep before I ventured [View Full Entry]

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Now, where were we ? Ah yes, Jamie and I had just took off on the bikes for a ride around the harbour and for a bit of variety having ridden the beach route a couple of days earlier with his brother I led us inland to the area of the city that they call downtown. Crossing roads in America is an education in itself, jay walking an offence punishable by fine and it was at one of the many signalled crossing points that we were forced to wait. I turned to check Jamie's location as he pulled up behind me [View Full Entry]

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Some more photos from the winter. It's a pretty wild place. [View Full Entry]

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Its been a great season so far at Mammoth Mountain California. After three weeks of training, shadowing, and a comprehensive final exam, I am now a member of the Mammoth Mountain Ski Patrol. It's been fun experiencing a completely different mountain range and weather pattern. The snowpack was getting scarce until the first week of January when we got 5-8 ft. of snow. The top of the mountain reported 8ft. and the Main Lodge reported 6ft. of snow in 36 hrs.!!! It was great, and with all that snow came a lot of Avalanche Control work (my favorite part of the [View Full Entry]

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Hey everyone... guest appearance here - its me, Nathan! I managed to get on here as Aydan usually insists on dominating this blog. So as the title says we just spent our last day at mammoth and we are driving out tomorrow morning to Reno with our housemate Joe, who intends to gamble his life away with Aydan. I may have to intervene if he gets on a winning streak or something. Theres no doubt we will be taking full advantage of the free drinks at the casino! ohyeah. From Reno, where we are staying for 1 night we will [View Full Entry]

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Still not much happening, finally starting to get some snow and looks like we'll be leaving for Reno then San Fran on Thursday. Just wanted to post some pics from a fishing trip we went on yesterday down in Bishop which is about 35 minutes drive away in the valley. We all managed to catch 1 fish with Kris saving the best for last. Also check the video attached. Enjoy! -Ayd [View Full Entry]

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Yes, avid readers, the rumours are true and June has unfortunately closed! Management decided that we were 'unable to provide an adequate customer experience' due to the lack of snow and when we rocked up to work on Sunday (28th)we were informed that it was our last day. This came as a suprise to everyone (except management) and pissed off a lot of people, needless to say being a lifty we copped the full brunt of peoples annoyance on the day. It wasnt totally bad news for us as we were thinking about coming home at the start of March anyway [View Full Entry]

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DAY OF DAYS! Well Australia day, what a day over here. Many a rowdy aussie to be seen and heard! We started off with a crawl around the various lodges of Mammoth then had a respite before heading to one of the bars in the village which was packed full of Aussies, great stuff! There was many an "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie - oi, oi, oi" to be heard and lots of fosters (what a crappy beer) and fish and chips around. Our boss had kindly given us both the Friday and Saturday off so there were no holds barred on our [View Full Entry]

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