There’s a first time for everything, and this is Woolly’s first backflip. Photo: Mammoth Mountain
Mammoth Mountain’s mascot, Woolly the Mammoth, just did something that, according to Mammoth Mountain, no mascot has ever done before: land a backflip.
“Mammoth Mountain’s beloved mascot, Woolly, just made history — becoming the first known mascot ever to successfully complete a backflip on skis,” a press release from Mammoth Mountain reads. While we couldn’t confirm the claim, we also couldn’t find any other resort mascots that have pulled off the backy.
Although woolly mammoths haven’t been around for quite some time now — around 4,000 years or so — they did share the planet with early humans that hunted them for food, used their bones and tusks for all sorts of things, and their thick fur for warmth. Even though mammoths were well adapted to the cold (they were around for the the last ice age, after all), they definitely didn’t ski. But Woolly does, and whoever Woolly is was determined to nail a backflip while wearing a giant, furry suit.
“After dialing in his skills all winter, Woolly dropped into a 10-foot kicker, launched 20 feet into the bluebird sky, and sent a clean backflip,” Mammoth Mountain wrote. “The crowd at the park went absolutely bananas. The flip capped off weeks of behind-the-scenes training earlier this winter, with Woolly pushing the limits of what’s possible in a furry suit and ski boots.”
We’d love to see video of the training outtakes.
