{"id":19502,"date":"2010-11-11T09:43:34","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T17:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=19502"},"modified":"2010-11-18T09:27:19","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T17:27:19","slug":"mammoth-mountain-fires-up-the-lifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=19502","title":{"rendered":"Mammoth Mountain Fires Up The Lifts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nDanny Thomas<\/em><\/strong> and the Arbor crew on the first chair.<\/em><\/p>\n

Snowboarders began gathering at 10 PM last night (November 10, 2010) at the bottom of Mammoth Mountain’s<\/a><\/strong> Chair 1 to make sure they were first in line for the 2010-11 winter. Danny Thomas<\/strong>, Patrick Reddy<\/strong>, Chris Peroddi<\/strong>, John Farr<\/strong>, Marley McPhillips<\/strong>, and friends brought a tent and BBQ’d hotdogs all night.<\/p>\n

“It’s not easy sleeping in a tent when you keep getting woken up by the cat driving around,” said one of the snow campers. “They came in and kicked us out around 5 AM, but we by that time we had our spot.”<\/p>\n

The sun came up over a cloud-covered mountain, but by 7:30 it was full blue-bird and the line was filling. By the time the line began moving at 8:30 AM there were a couple hundred people ready to ride (mostly snowboarders, oddly).<\/p>\n

There is something to be said for cold, crisp air, blue skies, and a snowboard back in the snow and sliding. It’s borderline double rainbow action.<\/p>\n

Follow the jump for more photos.
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\nMammoth Mountain’s executive team: CEO Rusty Gregory<\/strong>, SVP Pam Murphy<\/strong>, CMO Howard Pickett<\/strong>, CFO Mark Clausen, <\/strong>and with Assistant Director of Lift Maintenance Greg Bretz, Sr.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\nOn opening day at Mammoth it’s hard not to run into a few Frends here and there. . . yeah Mason.<\/p>\n

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\nArbor Snowboard’s<\/strong> second chair wave: Patrick Reddy<\/strong>, Chris Peroddi<\/strong>, John Farr<\/strong>, Marley McPhillips.
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\nThe hardcores camp out all night in a tent to get first chair and Wooly gets to slide up and roll on right in front of everyone. No one had a problem with it.<\/p>\n

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\nEvery year on opening day we ask Steve Brown a question. This year he said, “Don’t say it!” LIft Operations Manager Steve Brown<\/strong> and Lift Operations Director Dave Geirman<\/strong>. Let’s just say these guys go way, way, way back.<\/p>\n

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\nMammoth Mountain’s Director of Marketing and Communications Joani Lynch<\/strong> got up early to communicate live with KTLA Morning News.<\/p>\n

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\nMammoth’s newest transplant Shannon “Shayboarder” Johnson<\/strong> capturing content for the social web.<\/p>\n

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\nHave we mentioned Arbor Snowboards yet? Apparently, first chair is their new marketing strategy.<\/p>\n

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Danny Thomas and the Arbor crew on the first chair. Snowboarders began gathering at 10 PM last night (November 10, 2010) at the bottom of Mammoth Mountain’s Chair 1 to make sure they were first in line for the 2010-11 winter. Danny Thomas, Patrick Reddy, Chris Peroddi, John Farr, Marley McPhillips, and friends brought a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19502"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19502"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19749,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19502\/revisions\/19749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}