Blogs from Mammoth Lakes, California, United States, North America - page 5

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 and this just made it official, Shane (our manager) offered to hook us up with some jobs over at Mammoth but we politely declined and it now looks as though we will be back on ... read more

Mammoth Ski Trip 2007 http://www.mammothmountain.com/ So to start off 2007, a few friends and I had planned on going up to the mountains to ski. In Los Angeles, you have 2 choices, Big Bear or Mammoth. In our minds, Mammoth will always be the winner with that choice, as they have more snow, bigger runs, and a nicer village area. So Gadow, Traci, Tracy, Kasey, Mindi, Youxi and I, all left Friday afternoon to get up there and start the festivities. After a vigorous workout of beers and Wii tennis, (video at the top) we went to sleep with only 6 hours til we needed to get up. Probably not the best idea, but we managed to do ok. On Saturday, even with our soreness from Wii Sports, we got up and hit the mountain. ... read more

Wuddup all! :) Hope things are well over there in warm ol' Aus, temps are really starting to drop over here! At one stage last night on June it was around -20 celsius or something ridiculous like that, needless to say it wasnt the best day to miss the bus but Nathan and I decided that we would do it the hard way as usual and wait around in the cold for a lift. We've had a few early starts of late, 6:30am (5:20 get up :) starts both today and tomorrow, but its actually not too bad as we get a lift in a warm car and dont need to wait for the bus to rock up in the cold! We have a pretty busy weekend coming up as its Martin Luther King day on ... read more

It’s as though someone is chiseling at your chest. After the work, the strain, the arduous momentum to bring yourself to the present moment of your journey—of all things!—now this: You’re strapped down, inclined by force, and your eyelids are wrenched open in an undefined spaciousness. Someone, something, is chiseling at you. It’s strikes your rib cage, prying towards your heart. It’s searching for something more, and as it pounds, the sensation is everything but painful. In fact, what holds you down and stretches the eyelids is your own volition. That someone, that thing, digging into you at the cavity of your torso is of your own manifestation. You allow it. You create it. You smile with inexplicable delight. Come the Hammer & Pick Inspiration: we flourish with it. It is an imaginary force of mental ... read more

Well after arriving in Mammoth on Monday then spending Tuesday getting acquainted with the mountain (skiing wise), Wednesday was our first day of work at June Mountain (www.junemountain.com). The mountain is about 20 miles from Mammoth Lakes and takes about 35 minutes on the bus which arrives at our stop at 7:15am (ouch!). June is a really nice little resort that attracts mostly locals and hardcore skiers/boarders, and it has one of the best freestyle parks (Jumps, halfpipe, rails etc) in the US. The ride up to the main building is a 10 minute lift ride that gives us some spectacular views of the surrunding mountains, it feels like we are in the heart of the European Alps rather than California! Our first 2 days of work were pretty much all theory, our supervisor lecturing us ... read more