This ski season was cut short due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. In March, just before the shut-down, we got three days of skiing at three different California mountains. First was Alpine Meadows in Tahoe. The weather in north Tahoe was miserable, just constant snowing with very little viability. The place was packed for such a miserable day. It wasn’t a holiday or even a popular weekend. I think the IKON pass needs more Tahoe locations to spread out the visitors.
Just as the Nation was not taking COVID-19 seriously, we followed suit and jumped on a plane for our planned ski trip to Mammoth, California. We’d seen H1N1, Ebola, and Swine Flu all come and go without much change to our daily routine. A few of the big tech companies allowed their workers to telecommute at the start of the week. I should’ve probably taken the hint and cancelled the trip. We got to Mammoth on a Thursday and skied until the mountain closed. When I checked my work emails that night, our office shut down all non-essential employees. I had no idea if that included me, but for the moment I was on vacation.
Then on Friday, we drove 30 minutes from Mammoth to June Mountain to ski this smaller mountain. It was a beautiful sunny day and not crowded at all. Just no one on the mountain. I think the Corona Virus escalation was keeping people from taking trips. (California didn’t lock down the state until the following Monday). It was amazing to ski down a slope with no one else on the entire slope. To ski up to the lift and be the only people there. The slopes were perfectly groomed. It was an amazing day of skiing.
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