Phil Garcia had a strategy to make it across the near-freezing pond on his snowboard.
“I just had to lean on the back and apply slow aft pressure,” the 24-year-old Laguna Niguel resident said after he was one of a handful of skiers and boarders to skim the entire 107-foot-long pool in front of Mammoth Mountain’s Canyon Lodge. “We talked about it and I did it on my first time.”
Garcia was one of many Orange County residents to attend the ski resort’s 10th Annual Pond Skim contest at Canyon Lodge on Sunday, drawing a crowd of more than 2,000. The event celebrated the end …Â Details & Pictures