Date: 04/08/99
Days: 4
Resort: Mammoth Mtn.
Hours: Day
Equipment: Alpine
Rating: 10
Primary-Surface: Powder
Secondary-Surfaces: Packed powder
Gender: Male
Ability: Expert
Loved: Excellent conditions, no more lift lines
Hated: Thursday weather was pretty bad
Closed: Ch. 3, 5, 9, 12, 14, 22 and the top 4/8, nothing 4/9-11
Liftline-Waits: Negligible, except for first tracks Friday
Moguls: None, they were well buried

Conditions ranged from mid-winter excellent on the weekend to heli-quality steep and deep Friday (see separate report for details). Thursday was a blow-down day with the middle as well as upper layer of lifts closed, snowing very hard starting about noon. After Friday's 20-inch powderfest Saturday was sunny and a bit warmer (22F on top) most of the day, but clouded over in late afternoon with some wind. Conditions remained packed powder, with no spring conditions even at Chair 15. It snowed another 4-7 inches Saturday night, still light and dry but somewhat wind affected. There was some nice blown-in powder over on Ch. 14 Sunday with very few people. The top was open Sunday (only the gondola, not 23), but it was cloudy and windy up there.