Skiing and surfing in California: Can you hit both slopes and waves in the same weekend?
It’s a shallow approach to Mammoth Mountain from Los Angeles. For five long hours, the US 395 Highway rises slowly across the Mojave desert into the Sierra Nevada mountain range. And then, suddenly, like a blizzard, California’s biggest ski resort hits you full-on.
I arrived on an early evening in February – my mission to discover whether it’s possible to both ski and surf over a long winter weekend in California.
Mammoth Mountain, named after Mammoth Consolidated Mine, the company that unearthed gold here a century ago, isn’t the closest ski resort to – those are in the San Gabriel Mountains, 90 minutes away. But with 175 pistes and 25 lifts across 3,500 acres of , it’s one of
