<p>On Sunday morning we carved turns on the east-facing corduroy groomed slopes until the surface became perfectly buttery. By 9:30 it was beginning to ripen all over the mountain, and the next two hours were &#8220;magic time&#8221; where every turn made us feel like the best skiers in the world!  We continued to follow the sun as it gradually softened the hard snow on the western slopes of Mammoth Mountain. By early afternoon, it finally became too soft to be enjoyable and we decided to quit so we could save our legs for more fun on Monday. <span class="post-teaser-more">&nbsp;<a href="http://getrolling.com/blog/2010/06/01/notes-from-mammoth-lakes-california-on-memorial-day-weekend-part-two/" title="Permanent Link: Notes from Mammoth Lakes California on Memorial Day Weekend &#8211; Part Two" rel="bookmark">Read more...</a> <i>(266 words, 2 images, estimated 1:04  mins reading time)</i></span></p>{"id":92,"date":"2010-06-01T13:34:31","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T20:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2010-06-26T15:51:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T22:51:27","slug":"notes-from-mammoth-lakes-california-on-memorial-day-weekend-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/01\/notes-from-mammoth-lakes-california-on-memorial-day-weekend-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from Mammoth Lakes California on Memorial Day Weekend &#8211; Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday morning we carved turns on the east-facing corduroy groomed slopes until the surface became perfectly buttery. By 9:30 it was beginning to ripen all over the mountain, and the next two hours were &#8220;magic time&#8221; where every turn made us feel like the best skiers in the world!\u00a0 We continued to follow the sun as it gradually softened the hard snow on the western slopes of Mammoth Mountain. By early afternoon, it finally became too soft to be enjoyable and we decided to quit so we could save our legs for more fun on Monday. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\">&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/01\/notes-from-mammoth-lakes-california-on-memorial-day-weekend-part-two\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Notes from Mammoth Lakes California on Memorial Day Weekend &#8211; Part Two\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more...<\/a> <i>(266 words, 2 images, estimated 1:04  mins reading time)<\/i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getrolling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}