Monday, March 10, 2008

Mammoth from 12,000+ Feet

Hit Mammoth over the weekend and got sunny skies and pre-spring conditions. Saturday was a little breezy and firm on top but Sunday was warm and still.

Ended up flying w/Shoe rather than driving which was killer. The flight up the central valley and over the Sierras took 2 hours. Here are pics from the air...


The barren backside, the gondola building at 11,053 feet and White Mountains off in the distance.


Banking over the chair 23 enclosure.


Looking back at the face, the upper gondola and chair 3.

Map of Mammoth to Los Angeles Flight
A link to GPS data from the return flight on MotionBased.

2 comments:

Andre Alforque said...

Awesome! I've always thought of flying up there, but my pilot friend doesn't ski/snowboard.

holdthepickle said...

Wow. I guess you can't fly up the Owens Valley because of the military traffic. Nothing like getting painted by a f-14 on your way snowboarding.