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- From: lapworth@mizar.usc.edu (Bill Lapworth)
- Newsgroups: rec.skiing
- Subject: Double Black Diamonds at Mammoth
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 15:01:46 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Dave, how could you! IMHO a double black diamond should be reserved for
- runs where you stand a good chance of serious injury if a fall occurs, and
- that such rock strewn elevator shafts are the domain of hard core experts
- only.
-
- Well, I was at Mammoth on 11/6, and saw a brochure they had mailed to
- prior year season ticket holders. The mountain map was covered with
- double black diamonds (no, I don't remember which runs, all I remember
- is thinking that 95% of the designations were bs.)
-
- Are other areas bowing to the marketing pressure to have double D's?
-
- Anyway, I've never seen so few people on the mountain. I guessed about 300
- people, my friend who works there said it was more like 200 - with 1,2,3,5
- and upper gondola open!
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- Subject: Double black diamonds at Mammoth
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- Dave, how could you! IMHO a double black diamond should be reserved for
- runs where you stand a good chance of serious injury if a fall occurs, and
- that such rock strewn elevator shafts are the domain of hard core experts
- only.
-
- Well, I was at Mammoth on 11/6, and saw a brochure they had mailed to
- prior year season ticket holders. The mountain map was covered with
- double black diamonds (no, I don't remember which runs, all I remember
- is thinking that 95% of the designations were bs.)
-
- Are other areas bowing to the marketing pressure to have double D's?
-
- Anyway, I've never seen so few people on the mountain. I guessed about 300
- people, my friend who works there said it was more like 200 - with 1,2,3,5
- and upper gondola open!
-