Last Weekend of the Californian 2017-18 Ski Season
In 2017 they made it to August after one of the snowiest winters on record, in 2018 the last Californian ski area still operating, Mammoth Mountain, will close for the season at the end of the ski day on Sunday, June 17th.
It’s quite a good result considering the poor winter snowfall in much of western North America, but Mammoth Mountain benefited from a snowy spring and will have clocked up more than 220+ days of skiing and riding by the time it closes its 17/18 winter season on Sunday.
In celebration resort staff will be giving away Mammoth Beanies, coffee and pastries at the base of Face Lift Express [Chair 3] at 7:30am while supplies last. The lifts will run for skiing in the morning only, before it gets too warm, as has been the policy since the start of June.
As it’s Father’s Day too on Sunday, all fathers can gran a free game of golf on the resort’s golf range on the day too if they wish.
The only other North American area still open for the 2017-18 season is Timberline in Oregon which reported some fresh June snowfall this week. It has a year-round snowfield for its snowsports.
Two other ski areas have re-opened in June, the glacier skiing at Whistler Blackcomb in Canada and the summer-ski only Beartooth Basin ski area in Montana, so there will still be three North American areas left to ski and board in to July after Mammoth closes.
The good news too is that Mammoths has already announced it hopes to open again in less than five months’ time on Thursday, November 8th, conditions permitting!
It has one of the longest ski seasons of a non—glacier resort on earth along with Ruka in Finland (October to May) which stores snow (pictured above) over summer in order to open early and Arapahoe Basin in Colorado (October to June) – pictured below on opening day on October 13th last year.
