SNOW RECORD AT MAMMOTH.Byline: Daily News MAMMOTH mammoth, name for several large prehistoric elephants of the extinct genus Mammuthus, which ranged over Eurasia and North America in the Pleistocene epoch. LAKES - A massive April storm last week pushed Mammoth Mountain Mammoth Mountain is a large lava dome complex[1] that lies to the west of the town of Mammoth Lakes, California in the Inyo National Forest. Mammoth Mountain is home to the Mammoth Mountain Ski Area which is notable in that it gets an unusually large amount of to a new snowfall record. Since the season began in October October: see month. , the ski resort has received 642inches - more than 53 feet - of snow. The old record, 617 inches, was set in 1992-93. Mammoth Mountain, which received 189 inches in March and 83 inches the first 11 days of April, has extended its season to July 4. |
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