Mammoth Mountain is throwing its winter kickoff party in exactly one month. Every year, Wooly, the mountain resort’s mascot, rides the season’s first chair and breaks through a banner to start the new season, but this week’s massive West Coast storm got people celebrating weeks ahead of schedule.
The storm that much of California braced itself for brought as much as 10 inches of snow to Mammoth overnight. Mammoth locals woke up to an early winter Tuesday morning.
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The Southern Sierra isn’t the only zone getting hit this week, of course.
“A two-stage midweek pattern brings light higher-elevation snow Tuesday in southwest Montana, followed by a broader Wednesday night to Thursday event that targets the Tetons and adjacent Montana ranges,” Snowbrains wrote early in the week, which forecasts Grand Targhee could see as much as a foot of snow from the storm.
“A midweek Pacific system targets Utah with the main snow Tuesday night through Thursday, dropping snow levels from around 9,000 feet to near 7,000 feet and delivering the best totals to the Cottonwoods while southern and far northern areas pick up lighter amounts,” they wrote in another forecast. Utah could see as much as 18 inches once this is all said and done.