Mammoth on $80 a week

Great info on Mammoth [“Need a Lift?” Winter Holidays Issue, Dec. 14]. I graduated from Lowell Whiteman School circa 1959 in Steamboat Springs, Colo. Hit a tree in a downhill race the day before my college boards. Now that I’m 67, I am going skiing again. Our cheapest trip story to Mammoth, circa late ‘50s-early ‘60s ($5 lift tickets . . . three chair lifts, three T-bars).

Four of us drove in my parents’ ‘57 Chevy wagon with $80 between us to stay for one week. We slept in that wagon. We cooked Dinty Moore stew in cans in the fireplace at the Mammoth Mountain Inn.

John Stewart

Ventura