MAMMOTH MOUNTAIN SKI AREA PLANS EAGLE BASE LODGE

Mammoth Mountain Ski Area hopes to begin constructing the long delayed base facility at Eagle Express (chair 15) in early 2012 according to MMSA director of planning and development, Tom Hodges. 

The ski area is soliciting architectural treatments for a 40,000 square foot lodge that will replace the two temporary Little Eagle "tents" of just 15,000 square feet the Mountain has operated out of for nearly a decade.

 Little Eagle 'Tents' and Eagle Express Chair

 All the usual base services will be housed in the new building including, ticket sales, ski school, rentals, sport and repair shops, lockers and a cafeteria. The Mountain hopes to have the facility open by the winter of 2013-2014.

Although MMSA has another 4 1/2 years of authority to use the temporary structures, Hodges said that visitors, who have made Eagle Run as popular as the Main Lodge in recent years, "deserve better."

The weak development environment has, for now, thwarted ambitions to combine the base lodge with a condo/hotel real estate venture as initially planned, but the design will allow for future developments.