Mammoth Is Open, But How Is The Snow? I Drove There To Find Out

I was shoving a delicious bite of a breakfast burrito down my throat when I heard a fellow skier ask a Mammoth Mountain employee what time the lifts open.
"Lifts open at 8:30," the friendly employee replied.I looked down at my phone to check the time. It was 8:28 a.m. I had been taking my time with the massive burrito, thinking that the lifts spun at 9, but when I saw that there was hardly a line for Mammoth's Chair 2, I scarfed the remaining potatoes, eggs, and bacon down like a ravenous animal