{"id":37032,"date":"2017-07-27T06:33:54","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T06:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=37032"},"modified":"2017-07-27T06:37:07","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T06:37:07","slug":"after-a-near-record-270-days-mammoth-mountains-snow-season-is-coming-to-a-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/travel\/after-a-near-record-270-days-mammoth-mountains-snow-season-is-coming-to-a-close.html","title":{"rendered":"After a near-record 270 days, Mammoth Mountain&#8217;s snow season is coming to a close"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color: #000000\">After a near-record 270 days, Mammoth Mountain&#8217;s snow season is coming to a close<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">After a near-record 270 days, Mammoth Mountain&#8217;s snow season is coming to a close:-During one of the longest ski seasons in California\u2019s history, Mammoth Mountain is getting ready to say goodbye to skiers and snowboarders who\u2019ve been relishing their time on the slopes deep into summer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The ski resort in Mammoth Lakes will be open daily for snow sports through Aug. 6. It chalked up a remarkable 270-day season after big winter snowfalls were helped by a late June snowstorm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Squaw Valley Resort overlooking Lake Tahoe in Olympic Valley, Calif., also had a long winter-into-summer run. It closed for the winter season July 15, marking its latest closing date in the resort\u2019s history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">By the numbers, Mammoth received 618 inches of snow at its Main Lodge (which sits at about 9,000 feet) and an estimated 800-plus inches at the resort\u2019s 11,053-foot summit, according to a news release.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The numbers add up to the second-longest season for Mammoth, surpassed only by the big snow of 1994-95 when the resort was open from Oct. 8, 1994, through Aug. 13, 1995.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">And here\u2019s the good news for powder lovers: Mammoth plans to reopen in just 100 days, on Nov. 9.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">For those ready to get on with summer, the resort\u2019s Bike Park is open. You can ride on trail by taking the gondola to the top. Visitors to Squaw Valley also can go on mountain biking trails or take a scenic tram to 8,200 feet in elevation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 8pt;color: #000000\">Source:-http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/travel\/deals\/la-tr-california-mammoth-mountain-closes-for-season-20170725-story.html<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/travel\/after-a-near-record-270-days-mammoth-mountains-snow-season-is-coming-to-a-close.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a near-record 270 days, Mammoth Mountain&#8217;s snow season is coming to a close After a near-record 270 days, Mammoth Mountain&#8217;s snow season is coming to a close:-During one of the longest ski seasons in California\u2019s history, Mammoth Mountain is getting ready to say goodbye to skiers and snowboarders who\u2019ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":37036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[27723,27726,27724,27725],"class_list":["post-37032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","tag-after-a-near-record-270-days-mammoth-mountains-snow-season-is-coming-to-a-close","tag-mammoth-mountain-season-snowfall","tag-mammoth-mountain-ski-area","tag-mammoth-mountain-snow-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}