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Fresh powder

By Chris Erskine
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

Just in time for the Christmas rush, Mammoth Mountain received 2 feet of fresh snow early last week and was expecting another significant storm, with as much as 2 more feet of snow late Thursday, as the Travel section was going to press. The resort was planning to have more than 20 lifts open this weekend, including a new high-speed lift that takes the place of Chair 9. It will whisk skiers from the Eagle Lodge side of the mountain to Dragon’s Back (10,371 feet) in six minutes. The same storm systems that hit lower in the state left Squaw Valley near Lake Tahoe with several feet of new powder, and snow depth reached 95 inches high on the hill.

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Chris Erskine

Chris Erskine is a nationally known humor columnist and editor who retired from the Los Angeles Times in 2020. Previously he wrote for the Sports, Travel and Saturday sections and edited with the paper’s features staff. As an editor, he has been a part of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams at The Times (for his graphics work on the Northridge quake and the North Hollywood bank robbery). He is best known to readers for his weekly humor pieces on life in suburban Los Angeles. His latest book, “Daditude,” released in 2018, is a collection of his favorite Times columns on fatherhood. He has written two other books, “Man of the House” and “Surviving Suburbia,” which reached the Los Angeles Times bestseller list. The Chicago native has also worked for papers in New Orleans and Miami.

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