Westbound Boarder

Just wanted to give a shout out to all of the snow Gods and thank them for starting the season so early. We had opening days all over the place this week and I woke up to three powder alerts in my inbox this morning, a simple sign of the wonderful winter to be had. Resorts including Aspen Snowmass (peep their pics), Park City (my new home front), Mt. Hood Meadows, Alta, Snowbird, and I am sure the list goes on and on…Jackson Hole opens next week and many more to follow. Cheers to the kick off of the 2012 winter snowboard season!!!

Photo taken on Mammoth on Wednesday morning, 10.14

To those of you who are busy prepping for the upcoming snowboard season… Well, it’s coming just a little bit sooner than you might think.  Though a few Colorado resorts saw opening day last weekend, such as Loveland and A-Basin (last I heard it was 17 degrees in Denver!), California will have its first with Mammoth Mountain opening this Friday.  If you live anywhere in Cali., you’ve probably been experiencing the massive rain storm (yes, I do now consider light showers a ‘massive storm’) but the upside is the two feet of snow that dumped on Mammoth this past week.

This is the second earliest opening in Mammoth resort history (the first being on Oct. 8, 1994) and to celebrate, Mammoth is offering all guests FREE SKIING this Friday! (Yes, you read that right, I said ‘free’).  The base of Broadway Express currently has 16 – 24 inches of snow, which isn’t much, but hey, we’ll take it!  Currently, Broadway Express is the only chair lift that is confirmed open on Friday, but resort officials hope to add more lifts to the list soon since there is more snow at higher elevations.  The resort will be open 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Personally, I won’t be there this Friday (dang job…) but I hope to make it there at least once this season.  If you go, let us know what you think!