Night of Lights at Mammoth Mountain’s Canyon Lodge
Thousands of people showed up for the outdoor nighttime show on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2008.
Sledstyle stars Heath Frisby and Joe Parsons gave the audience a preview of the crazy tricks they’re planning to bring to the X-Games later this month on a 70 foot super kicker and 85 foot snow gap.
Then the entire team of Mammoth ski instructors paraded down the slope with a glowing red flare in each hand, forming an M like a marching band and parting ways for Woolly’s appearance on skis.
Fireworks lit up the snow and the sky for the grande finale (you know how the sun reflects off the snow on sunny days? Imagine the reflections from fireworks…)
This once-a-winter “spectacular” was resurrected from the 90s, when it was held at Main Lodge. Thirteen years later it’s back, and it looks like something that will continue in future seasons.
January 17, 2008 at 6:47 pm |
Thanks for resurrecting this event. Well done. We were disappointed when it stopped in the mid 90’s. It was just as spectacular this time as I remember. We stayed an extra day to see it and weren’t sorry. We’ll be back next year…and we live in Colorado! Mammoth is still our favorite mountain!!
January 18, 2008 at 10:02 pm |
Spectacular. I wrote about these in our blog.
January 18, 2008 at 10:51 pm |
Although I was at Mammoth last weekend, I missed the Night of Lights (the football game took precedence) but heard it was stunning, and it was great finding your post so that I could read more about what I missed! What a ninny. I won’t miss the next one.