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Mammoth Mountain to Open Friday

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With snow-making underway and natural snowfall last week, Mammoth Mountain Ski Area in the Sierras has scheduled its 1996-’97 season opening for Friday.

This year, for the first time, Mammoth has the capability of making snow from its lowest slopes to the mountain’s 11,053-foot-high summit, including the Cornice Bowl, a black-diamond run from the top of Mammoth, and on the area known as the Face of Chair 3. Mammoth’s snow-condition telephone number for Los Angeles is (213) 935-8866.

In the Lake Tahoe area, Squaw Valley, site of the 1960 Winter Olympics, plans to open Nov. 15; tel. (916) 583-6985.

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Locally, Bear Mountain at Big Bear began making snow Oct. 25 and plans to open Friday, weather permitting; tel. (909) 585-2519.

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