Mammoth Whitewater

March 10, 2006

I just finished reading the Men's Journal article about the "50 Best Places To Live." No beefs here about including Mammoth and Bishop in the list, but I nevertheless was baffled by the magazine's assertion that we have whitewater sports around here. I asked some of the sporting goods places if they'd had any runs on whitewater kayaks or anything like that since the article hit the racks on March 7, and those people just stared back at me, as bewildered as a hatchery trout. Hmm. How could MJ have gotten it so mixed up? Finally—doh!— I figured it out, picked up the phone and called Lyin' Judy Bridger.

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Lost In The Village Lot

December 19, 2005

I was just coming off the ski hill, taking the semi-secret "ski-back trail” from Canyon Lodge to the Village, when who's standing outside the Old NY Bagel but Lyin' Judy Bridger, who—of course—was telling some sort of tale to a small group of gape-mouthed listeners. “Bump you old Unintelligible,” she cried, “get yer skinny over here! I've got me a story you wouldn't believe, except on account of it's true.” And so I did, and what she proceeded to tell us was that the Donner party was back in the Sierra, wandering around the Village parking lot, as lost as Republicans in Berkeley.

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Vons Is Paved Over, Creating Agitation

June 22, 2005

By Lyin' Judy Bridger     Now this is what we call a crisis day.    Black Gold Asphalt showed up at Vons yesterday and bollixed up the whole neighborhood, and that ain't no lie. It's likely to happen again...

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Las Vegas-to-Mammoth Air Service
America West would be the carrier

April 30, 2005

By Lyin’ Judy BridgerPretty Funny … Lookin’      You can call me a liar all you want, and right you are, too.    I’ve spun some honkers, but this is the straight-arrow truth:    Mammoth will have commercial air...

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Spring Skiing With Spyderman and Spiffy

April 3, 2005

By Lyin' Judy Bridger      The last weeks of the ski season up here are a liar’s paradise, I am telling you.  The rookie pass holders are out—as it turns out, they are the last of them, according to...

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The Organic Underground

July 7, 2004

By Lyin' Judy Bridger    Things haven’t been this paranoid around Mammoth since the summer of the Crash Buds.     Actually, almost everyone says that this is even weirder: middle-of-the-night dead-drops of illegal tomatoes, onions so good they...

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The GPS Blues

June 14, 2004

By Lyin' Judy Bridger     I come up on this wingnut from up and around a bend while walking cross country up along the plateau close to the Mono Pass trail in Yosemite. He had something in his one...

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