Storm Days are usually really boring unless something gnarley is happening outside, so we have to get creative to keep ourselves entertained. Today was one of those days. Justin came into our office, to take a sneak peak into what it is like to be Oren Tanzer for a day. I think he enjoyed himself.

The half pipe opened this morning. Already it is packed, and has been since I had breakfast early this morning. All of the Junior Snowboard Team kids will be shredding it all day, along with everyone else! GET UP HERE!!!!

All I want for Christmas is a Superpipe.

18 foot Zaugg Superpipe will open tomorrow 12/23/07.

Volcom’s own and Mammoth legend Billy Anderson was spotted in the Unbound Main Park today.

It’s that time of year that Mammoth has its busiest time, all of the hotels in town are booked to 100% occupancy, and you can never find a restaurant that isn’t packed! Its what we all live for, either if you are coming up here for your annual holiday celebrations, or you live in town and this is the time you work for 2 weeks straight, no break, but when it all clears, you have enough money to pay rent for the next 2 months!

It is also the time of the year where everyone is trying to enjoy themselves as much as possible, all of the approximately 35,000 people that our town can squeeze in. So why not this year, try to NOT rush anywhere through-out the town, or on the way to the mountain. The road up to the mountain is a solid double line the whole way up, so no passing allowed. Just be patient, the town is 5 miles by 5 miles, so you’ll get to where ever you are going in a second anyways!

OK, now on to the fun stuff, we are cutting the pipe as I type this, and tomorrow it opens! Very exciting! I will be putting up a picture today of how it looks, check back in a little bit.

Our Good Friend Julien has been updating the resort report for transworld snowboarding, and this is what he has written:

“Another slow start to the California shred season. For a third year in a row, the west coast weather systems decided to nap through November and slowly start producing in December. Nobody here seems too worried as anybody who’s been in the Sierras knows to never underestimate the power of the Pacific weather patterns. All Mammoth locals remember the slow start of the 2005/2006 winter which gave us no snow until Christmas only to unleash storm after storm until most were begging for spring.
Even with the under average snowfall, Mother Nature has offered up enough cold temperatures and real snow to make Mammoth the place to be on the West Coast. The Unbound park crew hasn’t taken a break since opening day to offer up a variety of jibs, bonks, jumps and hips to keep the unreal level of talent in Mammoth pleased. Park crew has been changing the park up every few nights to keep things fresh and interesting. Speaking of keeping things fresh, longtime park builder extraordinaire Chris Zajec has been moved up to park manager status. Immediate plans for Zajec are the opening of South Park by this weekend (12/15) and the opening of the 18′ Zaugg cut superpipe by the 20th.

With fresh snow on the forecast, this winter’s looking to wake up and unleash. “

It is snowing up here right now, and we have been very busy. This last weekend we held our first USASA contest. With 25 competitors, it flew right by.

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This is what it is like up here. DC team manager Zac, and Oren doing some shredding. As of right now, 11:38 am it is still dumping! I’ll be updating throughout the day!

winter.

Even though there is only a few inches outside, it is a relief! all the dirt has been covered up yet again by white, and only more snow to come.

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This saturday, december 8th, the Volcom crew will be up here, holding one of the best contests that we hold during the season. Who could pass up free peanut butter and jelly sandwiches?

registration will be 8am to 9am in Roma’s room of Main lodge.

More info: CLICK HERE

Even though we have tremendous efforts from our snow making crew, things aren’t looking promising for our half pipe contest for the USASA series next weekend. We will reschedule it for another time later this season.

Sorry about the delay on the USASA series, maybe you need to start doing some snow dancin’.

Check back on our USASA page (Upper Right Tab) for more updates.

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