All Pictures: Cody Mathison, Courtesy of Mammoth Mountain
Thanksgiving has come and gone, and whereas many people are nonetheless shaking off the meat sweats, our associates in Mammoth, California have been busy. They’re nearly completed digging out after an intense storm descended on the Sierra Nevada Mountains final week, burring the ski space and city in over two toes of snow.
The Sierra Nevada’s stretch alongside the northern California-Nevada border. These mountains typically see giant, moisture-laden clouds roll in off the Pacific Ocean, bringing storms that coat these towering peaks. Whereas the so-called “Sierra Cement” snow can typically be thick, colder temps can result in the arrival of pristine blower pow. By the seems to be of it, final week delivered a mixture of circumstances, however who can complain about knee-deep turns in November?
Fortunate for us, photographer Cody Mathison labored his approach round Mammoth Mountain at evening because the snow tumbled down. Get pleasure from these photographs of what’s hopefully the primary of many pow-filled FREESKIER photograph galleries this winter.
