What do to while it rains in SO Cali (Los Angeles: ski resort, apartment)

[Lifeshadower]

Originally Posted by Lovehound

Sorry to make you envious but tomorrow for me, more of the same, no need to commute to work, no work (and alas... no money either).

Yeah, driving on the 405 and 101 isn't fun at all when it's raining. It's already difficult for most people when it's NOT raining, but imagine the skill it must take to have to not only know how to steer, but also use their headlights, turn signals, and windshield wipers WITHOUT forgetting how to keep their foot on the gas pedal.

I'm pretty sure we Angelinos can expect continued rain for as much as possibly several days more. Y'all better get used to it!

I wish it were snowing closer to here. I feel like a snowboarding trip would come in handy right about now....Big Bear and Lake Arrowhead just doesn't cut it for me anymore!

[Lovehound]

One word for you Lifeshadower: Mammoth!!! It's about 6 hours driving at reasonable speeds. Get off work early on a Friday and drive up, ski or board all day Saturday, half day Sunday, then head on home Sunday afternoon.

Then I'll be the envious one!

[Lifeshadower]

Originally Posted by Lovehound

One word for you Lifeshadower: Mammoth!!! It's about 6 hours driving at reasonable speeds. Get off work early on a Friday and drive up, ski or board all day Saturday, half day Sunday, then head on home Sunday afternoon.

Then I'll be the envious one!

Hah, if it weren't Christmas weekend I would. I'm planning a Tahoe trip with my friends sometime next month. I've never been to Mammoth so I don't know which one would be better.

I remember a few years ago it snowed a little bit in the Santa Monica Mountains. I wasn't living here at the time, so I didn't get to see it. I wish it were that cold to see that.

[Neuling]

Originally Posted by musicforever04

My husband and I just recently moved to Hollywood. We've been here for 2-3 weeks and have done almost everything we can think of , as well as according to the top ten things to do in LA. He has 3 days off next week and we really don't want to spend them doing nothing because of the upcoming forecast of rain. We went to the Getty today and were wondering if there was anything SPECIAL to do in LA indoors (beside shopping/movies) or within 2-3 hours driving?

THANKS

Dream of NO Cali maybe?

[Lovehound]

Originally Posted by Lifeshadower

Hah, if it weren't Christmas weekend I would. I'm planning a Tahoe trip with my friends sometime next month. I've never been to Mammoth so I don't know which one would be better.

I've been to both and I vastly prefer Mammoth Mountain! I learned at Mammoth (went from first time skiing to intermediate-advanced in 6 weekend trips, two months missed only two weekends). I once spent a week (9 days) at South Lake Tahoe and skied Heavenly Valley and Aspen Meadows, and it was fun, they're great ski areas, but I liked my Mammoth just as much and Mammoth is much easier/cheaper to get to from Los Angeles. Due to the mountain passes being closed Mammoth isn't convenient to any place but LA (unless you fly, and there's plenty of ski areas to choose from if you fly) so Mammoth tends to be pretty much a snow playground for Angelinos alone. That might be a good thing or a bad thing, you decide. And... Mammoth is mammoth! It's huge! It would be pretty hard to get bored there since there's such a huge variety of runs. And if you do get bored there's June Lake just up the road (close enough to stay in Mammoth and ski June on a day trip). Mammoth Lakes (the town) has a nice cozy feeling for me, plenty of condos and hotels to choose from, plenty of restaurants ditto. I presume they still have free tram service, so you can park your car at your motel or condo and walk/tram every place you go including up to the ski area.

But no, I won't try to convince you to go to Mammoth. No, not me, I'm not enthusiastic about Mammoth at all!

Originally Posted by Lifeshadower

I remember a few years ago it snowed a little bit in the Santa Monica Mountains. I wasn't living here at the time, so I didn't get to see it. I wish it were that cold to see that.

Over my many years in Los Angeles it has snowed (here in the San Fernando Valley) about every 15 years or so on the average. You see the snow coming down and it forms a crust on lawns and roofs, and then as soon as it stops snowing (maybe snowing an hour or so) the snow melts within 15-20 minutes and all you have left is pictures and memories.

People from climates where it really snows might argue that isn't snow, but it is, a Los Angeles 15 minutes of fame and then back to same old, same old.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by Lovehound

I've been to both and I vastly prefer Mammoth Mountain! I learned at Mammoth (went from first time skiing to intermediate-advanced in 6 weekend trips, two months missed only two weekends). I once spent a week (9 days) at South Lake Tahoe and skied Heavenly Valley and Aspen Meadows, and it was fun, they're great ski areas, but I liked my Mammoth just as much and Mammoth is much easier/cheaper to get to from Los Angeles. Due to the mountain passes being closed Mammoth isn't convenient to any place but LA (unless you fly, and there's plenty of ski areas to choose from if you fly) so Mammoth tends to be pretty much a snow playground for Angelinos alone. That might be a good thing or a bad thing, you decide. And... Mammoth is mammoth! It's huge! It would be pretty hard to get bored there since there's such a huge variety of runs. And if you do get bored there's June Lake just up the road (close enough to stay in Mammoth and ski June on a day trip). Mammoth Lakes (the town) has a nice cozy feeling for me, plenty of condos and hotels to choose from, plenty of restaurants ditto. I presume they still have free tram service, so you can park your car at your motel or condo and walk/tram every place you go including up to the ski area.

But no, I won't try to convince you to go to Mammoth. No, not me, I'm not enthusiastic about Mammoth at all!



Over my many years in Los Angeles it has snowed (here in the San Fernando Valley) about every 15 years or so on the average. You see the snow coming down and it forms a crust on lawns and roofs, and then as soon as it stops snowing (maybe snowing an hour or so) the snow melts within 15-20 minutes and all you have left is pictures and memories.

People from climates where it really snows might argue that isn't snow, but it is, a Los Angeles 15 minutes of fame and then back to same old, same old.

I've been going to Mammoth since 1977. Lift tickets were either $14 or $17 back then. Chair 2 had no parallel chair so the lines were long. Chair 1 was just a plain old 2 man chair. The gondola was the only way to the top. The thing I remember most of those days is how low performing, V-8 carburetor cars were with the rich mixture at altitude.

[Lovehound]

Charles, I first began skiing at Mammoth almost exactly when you did, about '77. I first began fishing at Mammoth in ... probably the '50s. Okay, my mommy and daddy took me then.

Favorite run: Cornice, when it has one. To this day I have a very large framed map of the Mammoth ski area on my living room wall. I haven't skied in years but I hope to get back to it one day, after I've relocated away from CA. Of course it won't be Mammoth, unless I'm fortunate enough to return to my old stomping ground.

[EscapeCalifornia]

I drove from Costa Mesa to Placentia for tacos today in the rain. I don't see what everyone freaks out about.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by EscapeCalifornia

I drove from Costa Mesa to Placentia for tacos today in the rain. I don't see what everyone freaks out about.

I went to DEFCON BRAVO, set up a machine gun with sandbags in my front yard, prepared my backyard bunker, bought 40 loafs of bread and 20 gallons of milk, and cashed out all my savings and traded it all in for pure gold.

I'm not taking any chances.

[Bunjee]

You can check out some live theater. Any calendar guide can give you results for something close by. Or maybe go to a Groundlings show. They do walk-in classes, too, but you'd have to look at the schedule offerings. For another time it could be fun.

I'd go downtown and check out the Redcat exhibition called "Colonizing Architecture", then wander around gallery row. Careful, the holiday season changes gallery hours nearer Christmas Day, though. Good bars downtown, too. But a little outside DT I do like the Far Bar, a little place tucked away in Little Tokyo.