New to Mammoth? An opinionated guide
Touching down at Mammoth Yosemite Airport—less than an hour after we’d left San Jose—that last seven-hour Sunday slog from
Tahoe back to the Bay Area fades away. The pilot tells us to buckle up, folks, we’re coming in for a landing. Already? I’m
just getting comfy with my peanuts and in-flight magazine.
As I step out onto the tarmac, surrounded by a 360° kingdom of Swiss Alps–style peaks, it’s official: I’m gobsmacked. One
hour and $188 later, hello, good-mood ski weekend.
Until now, the Eastern Sierra’s Mammoth Mountain has been almost exclusively the winter playground of SoCal-ers who’ve made
the six-hour trek by car. But consider this the end of L.A.’s Mammoth monopoly. New flights from the Bay Area mean this eastern
front—only 32 miles southeast of Yosemite but as good as unreachable by car in winter—is finally a Tahoe alternative.
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