{"id":22314,"date":"2016-03-25T00:35:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T07:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=22314"},"modified":"2016-03-25T00:36:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T07:36:06","slug":"mountain-pond-skims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/mountain-pond-skims\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Terrific Sierra Mountain Pond Skims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/pndskmz.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/mammoth-pond-skim.html\">Mammoth Mountain Pond Skim<\/a>\u00a0(right photo)\u00a0VS\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/tahoe-pond-skim.html\">Northstar at Tahoe Pond Skim<\/a>\u00a0(left &amp; center photo)\u00a0&#8212; 2\u00a0Sierra mountain resorts, 200 miles distance, with 2,000 feet elevation difference, host Ponds Skims two weeks apart in April! \u00a0Which Pond Skim is the best? Judges rate contestants who ski or snowboard down a hill into a pond on creativity of costumes\u00a0and theatrics, while huge crowds cheer on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the point? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These\u00a0fun events symbolically and literally close out the ski season. Locals say this is one of their favorite festivals of the year creating an equal playing field for beginner\u00a0to expert skiers who have equal chance of winning the contest and making the audience laugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mammoth Mountain Pond Skim\u00a0(right photo)\u00a0VS\u00a0Northstar at Tahoe Pond Skim\u00a0(left &amp; center photo)\u00a0&#8212; 2\u00a0Sierra mountain resorts, 200 miles distance, with 2,000 feet elevation difference, host Ponds Skims two weeks apart in April! \u00a0Which Pond Skim is the best? Judges rate contestants who ski or snowboard down a hill into a pond on creativity of costumes\u00a0and theatrics, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22314"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}