mammoth mountain

We’re feeling especially basalty over this Mammoth development.

The region’s epic peaks are still frosty while blossoms burst in the lower parts of the Eastern Sierra.

The Eastern Sierra resort just extended its season beyond Memorial Day, with a closing date still to come.

The 3-Up, a new spring-sweet deal, is as bright as the April sun and as cool as a May mountain morn.

Skiers, shine those poles: The winter playground will welcome guests again on Nov. 13.

The road to Devils Postpile National Monument, a Sierra Nevada must-see, reopened on June 17, but wait: The shuttle will return in early July.

Can you schuss the slope, roll along the trail, and roam the green over the course of a day? Find out over Memorial Day Weekend.

Some snow-strong March dumps means the Sierra ski favorite can keep the slopes open through all of May.

Dave McCoy, who transformed California’s Mammoth Mountain from a remote Sierra peak into a downhill destination for skiers and snowboarders from around the world, has died at 104. Rusty Gregory, former chief executive of the resort, said McCoy “died peacefully in his sleep” at his home in the eastern Sierra Nevada community of Bishop. “Dave was Mammoth Mountain,” Gregory told…

Both Mammoth Mountain and Bear Mountain are giving February 29ers complimentary lift tickets on their big (and rare) day.

Ross Thomas is in Mammoth Lakes where he mountain bikes, horse rides and hits up a brewery around at the hot destination.

Slopes of the Sierra Nevada sported fresh powder Thursday as a late-spring storm with a winter-like potency moved through California, adding to snowpack and rainfall accumulations that were already well above normal.

California Department of Transportation officials on Saturday afternoon briefly closed down Highway 20 just east of Nevada City due to heavy snow and vehicle spinouts. Eastbound traffic on Interstate 80 traffic was stopped at Alta also due to multiple spinouts, Caltrans officials said.

Winter weather enveloping California’s mountains for a fourth straight day Friday kept skiers from hitting the slopes at the start of the Presidents Day holiday weekend, with snow so deep that plows could not tackle it and cities scrambled to find places to pile it.

Avalanche warnings have been posted in parts of California, Nevada and Utah after a winter storm dumped heavy snow on the region.

Back-to-back California storms have blanketed the Sierra Nevada in snow, pushing the snowpack to 106 percent above average, with winter still nearly two weeks away.