Lake Tahoe & Mammoth Mountain

California

USA

February 1996

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My last purely skiing trip.

After flying into San Francisco and driving into the Sierra Nevada's, we started in Lake Tahoe and skied Heavenly & Kirkwood...



James, Kev, Fiona & Dave at Heavenly and the fantastic backdrop of Lake Tahoe itself...

It's childish I know, but it remains my favourite piste name... Kev & Dave by 'Dipper Knob'... All the more impressive for its view over the Nevada Desert below.




Totally stoked...





Kirkwood...










A trip across Lake Tahoe on a Steam Boat to Squaw Valley on the other side...

Me testing Newton's theories at Squaw Valley...


After a week around Lake Tahoe, there was some time for snowmobiling before heading south to Mammoth...


A drive across the Mojave Desert would take us to Mammoth & June Mountains...





The route was pretty direct...





More authentic than a Java Bean Cafe...



Our main venue for our time in Mammoth. The rooms themselves were complete 70's opulence, with incredibly deep shag-pile carpets and massive beds...






A sulphur vent at Mammoth... A strange experience to be in the pure air of a mountain and then be engulfed by the smell of rotten eggs...



















Trip over, we drive to Los Angeles and home...





One of a series of similar statues in L.A....





            

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