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Mammoth gets a May Day snow. Resort plans to stay open through end of month

By Chris ErskineColumnist 
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Ski season isn’t over in Mammoth Lakes, where one of California’s mega-resorts received a few additional inches from a storm system that swept over central and Southern California on Tuesday.

The dusting is a late-season bonus for the resort, which plans to stay open through at least Memorial Day.

Generous base depths across the mountain are holding, though they will be challenged by the warm weather coming later this week.

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Current base depths, according to the resort:

  • Main Lodge: 50 inches
  • McCoy Station: 95 inches
  • Summit: 125 inches

Big Bear, in the mountains above San Bernardino, was also seeing snow late Tuesday. But the local mountain resorts around Los Angeles are closed for the season.

Farther north, in Lake Tahoe, most resorts have also closed, though Squaw Valley is hoping to stay open through Memorial Day. Its sister hill, Alpine Meadows, has closed for the season.

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Chris Erskine

Chris Erskine is a nationally known humor columnist and editor who retired from the Los Angeles Times in 2020. Previously he wrote for the Sports, Travel and Saturday sections and edited with the paper’s features staff. As an editor, he has been a part of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams at The Times (for his graphics work on the Northridge quake and the North Hollywood bank robbery). He is best known to readers for his weekly humor pieces on life in suburban Los Angeles. His latest book, “Daditude,” released in 2018, is a collection of his favorite Times columns on fatherhood. He has written two other books, “Man of the House” and “Surviving Suburbia,” which reached the Los Angeles Times bestseller list. The Chicago native has also worked for papers in New Orleans and Miami.

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