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GETTINGAFTER IT

WITH BF.MEDIA BY BRIAN FARRELL

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WITH DREAMS OF HIGH JUMPS THROUGH THE CRISP, CALIFORNIAN AIR...

Brian Edward Farrell (19) started snowboarding at 8-years-old in Breckenridge, Colorado. The slope-style ranges and unbound parks of Colorado were his stomping grounds for a few years, as he de-veloped a childhood love for both backcountry and park boarding.

A few years later, Farrell began trav-elling to Spokane, Washington to snowboard at Schweitzer Mountain in Idaho. Here he found a much qui-eter mountain away from the tourist crowds of Colorado. Schweitzer was the mountain that facilitated Far-rell’s most significant progression in snowboarding skill. The terrain parks allowed him to experiment with more technical aspects of his boarding, like frontside and back-side aerials as well as various slides and grinds.

It wasn’t until 2011 that Farrell would hear about Mammoth Mountain for the first time. He had grown up surf-ing and skateboarding in Southern California and it blew his mind that there was snow just a few hours north of the waves.

With dreams of pow and high jumps through the crisp, Californian air, Farrell went to explore the beauty of Northern California’s Mammoth Mountain. pow.3

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M A M M O T HBY WIKIPEDIA

Mammoth Mountain, which was founded by Dave McCoy in 1953, is home to the Mammoth Mountain Ski Area, the highest ski resort in California. Mammoth is notable for the unusu-ally large amount of snowfall it receives com-pared to other Eastern Sierra peaks—about 400” annually—due to its location in a low gap in the Sierra crest. In the summer months the ski gondolas are used by mountain bikers and tourists who wish to get a summit view of Long Valley Caldera directly to the east and Sierra peaks to the west, south and north. To the south of the mountain, a number of lakes that serve as tourist attractions in the summer.

Mammoth Mountain is a lava dome complex west of the town of Mammoth Lakes, Cali-fornia in the Inyo National Forest of Madera County and Mono County. It is home to a large ski area on the Mono County side.

Mammoth Mountain was formed in a series of eruptions that ended 57,000 years ago. However, Mammoth still produces hazardous volcanic gases that kill trees and caused ski patroller fatalities in 2006.

Mammoth Mountain is a lava dome complex in Mono County, California. It lies in the south-western corner of the Long Valley Caldera and consists of about 12 rhyodacite and dacite over-lapping domes. These domes formed in a long series of eruptions from 110,000 to 57,000 years ago, building a volcano that reaches 11,059 feet (3,371 m) in elevation. During this time, massive dacite eruptions occurred roughly every 5000 years. The volcano is still active with mi-nor eruptions, the largest of which was a minor phreatic (steam) eruption 700 years ago.

Mammoth Mountain also lies on the South end of the Mono-Inyo chain of volcanic craters. The magma source for Mammoth Mountain is dis-tinct from both the Long Valley Caldera and the Inyo Craters.

Mammoth Mountain is composed primarily of dacite and rhyolite, some of which have been altered by hydrothermal activity from fumaroles (steam vents).

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A r T O f f l i g H T

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