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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Abené Clayton

Ski season finally ends at California’s Mammoth Mountain resort

snowy mountains
An unprecedented 700in of snow fell on the main parts of Mammoth over the past nine months and 900in fell on the summit. Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images

After a historic amount of snowfall, a popular California resort is ending its second-longest ski season. The ski lifts at Mammoth Mountain, in the eastern Sierra Nevadas, have been open since early November and, up until 5 August, remained available well into summer.

While it is not unusual for people to powder-surf on the Fourth of July at the resort, the sheer amount of snow the mountain saw made this season exceptional and one of the longest in the resort’s 70-year history, according to NPR.

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