Your first day on the mountain is always a memorable one. Some people spend their entire first day on the ground and others make their first turns, but just about everyone remembers the first time they felt like they could control their board or skis and realized skiing and snowboarding are actually possible, and even […] Click to Read This Article
It doesn’t matter if you’re carving down a black diamond or are still working on your plough turns on the bunny hill, when you’re snowboarding or skiing you get treated to spectacular mountain views. Except if you’re relying on foggy glasses to see those views. Just like how you can’t ride without mountains, you can’t […] Click to Read This Article
Here at ASO Mammoth, we see beginners rent ski and snowboard gear here in our Mammoth Lakes shop every day. When we get to talking about why they chose skiing over snowboarding or vice versa though, beginners tell us they are often deciding based on what their friends or family are doing or even just […] Click to Read This Article
If you’re looking for a low-impact form of exercise with cardiovascular benefits, you might want to try skiing. Dr. Josef Niebauer, from Austria’s Paracelsus Medical University, explains skiing boosts cardiac function and blood circulation. The sport also tones the arms and legs. Here’s what you should know about different types of skiing and how they […] Click to Read This Article
Everyone skis or snowboards for their own reasons. However, thanks to the remote locations of ski resorts and the spectacular mountains that surround them the people who ski and snowboard to escape from the crowd and find solitude are often the happiest in the mountains. If that sounds like you but you’re not riding tree […] Click to Read This Article
If you’ve tried to learn how to ski or snowboard as an adult, you know how fortunate children who learn to ski and snowboard are. Whether it’s because they bounce back from a fall easier than an adult or are less afraid of falling, kids often pick up skiing and snowboarding quickly, and once they […] Click to Read This Article
When learning how to ski, you’ll take any advantage you can get if it means staying upright and off the ground. For many green skiers, skiing without their poles seems like one of those advantages. If you’re wondering whether or not you need ski poles the simple answer is that, although there are some exceptions, […] Click to Read This Article
After your first day of learning to ski or snowboard, you may wonder how on earth these two sports became as popular as they are. After all, new skiers and snowboarders will spend most of their day falling in the snow, walk away sore, and pay good money to do it all over again the […] Click to Read This Article
It’s easy for experienced skiers and snowboarders to forget what it’s like to be new to either sport, but at ASO Mammoth we are constantly reminded just how unfamiliar skiing and snowboarding are to some people. Whether it’s because they’ve never seen snow before or they just can’t imagine sliding down a steep slope with […] Click to Read This Article
Your board, skis, and bindings are what allow you to have fun and your helmet protects the most important part of your body, but if you ask the ASO Mammoth team, the piece of skiing and snowboarding gear that has the biggest say in the type of day you have on the mountain is your […] Click to Read This Article