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June 2005 Archive
About That Village Ghost
June 27, 2005
By Bump DiamondMan About Town Suddenly, we have an urban legend at the Village, which at just two years of age is almost too young to have one. It has come to be known as “The Village Ghost,”...The Mammoth Mountain Sale
June 26, 2005
Bump DiamondMan About Town If all goes according to plan, the buyer of ski area founder Dave McCoy’s share of Mammoth Mountain will be announced soon, and the deal will be done by late August. Last week, Rusty...Fishing Update
June 25, 2005
By Bump DiamondMan About Town I see that Tom Loe and Dave Neal have been out on the water, keeping us abreast of the so-far weird fishing season so that we don't have to. The water is so high...Flower Power
June 24, 2005
By Bump DiamondMan About Town One of the many things Mammothists and other Eastsiders do is try to predict when and where the summer wildflowers will be in the high mountains. Heaven knows it’s a short window, particularly...Bike Park Open Saturday, June 25
June 23, 2005
By Bump DiamondMan About Town The Mammoth Mountain Bike Park is going to open Saturday, although it ain't going to exactly test the high-altitude set. In fact, anybody riding up on the hill Saturday is likely to...Tioga Pass To Open Friday, But It's A Mess
June 22, 2005
By Bump DiamondMan About Town Tioga Pass will open Friday at 8 a.m., Yosemite National Park officials said today, but five high-country camps will remain closed all season because of the winter snows. Other campgrounds along the...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...We're For The Birds
June 20, 2005
By Bump DiamondMan About Town Hey there sure are a lot of bird-brains around here. And there are a lot of birds, too. Fifty-two members of the Eastern Sierra Audubon Society counted 209 species in Inyo County...Free Ride Over At Reds Meadow, Devils Postpile
June 19, 2005
By Bump DiamondMan About Town We know that smug look. It’s the look of people who last year used a variety of different passes to get to Reds Meadow and Devils Postpile National Monument without having to...June 29 for Reds Meadow
June 18, 2005
By Bump DiamondMan About Town It ain’t just Tioga Pass that we’re pondering. The road to Reds Meadow looked to be packed in with snow as late as this afternoon. Looking up from the Main Lodge, it’s...Waitin’ In Line at Roberto’s
June 18, 2005
By Bump DiamondMan About Town It is no longer possible to make left turns while blindfolded around here, and the line at Roberto's is getting longer all the time. Apparently spurred on by the Mammoth Motocross, coupled with...A Mighty Wind On The Mammoth Trolley
June 17, 2005
By Bump DiamondMan About Town Jimmy Kellett from the Visitors Bureau said, over and over, "It could have been worse!" and he's probably right: it could have snowed on the unveiling ceremony for the Mammoth town trolley, or...New 3-Dot News
June 17, 2005
By Mammoth Monthly"On The Racks Now" Nothing quite like the activists of Mammoth. When the town’s Planning Commission called a public meeting last May for responses to a critical environmental document that is to accompany the town’s general...In Lone Pine, Rutabaga's Food For Friends
June 15, 2005
By Bump DiamondMan About Town There’s something about a place that offers toast with peanut butter and jelly—for a buck—that automatically appeals to my gourmet sensibilities. This is Rutabaga’s “Food For Friends” Bakery in Lone Pine, which...New Mammoth Monthly On Racks Tomorrow
June 15, 2005
By Bump DiamondMan About Town The July issue of Mammoth Monthly magazine is going to hit the streets tomorrow (Thursday) morning, and will appear on racks throughout the day—as fast as Bump-the-Paperboy can get them out. This...Whitney Portal Kicks Ass
June 14, 2005
By Bump DiamondMan About Town Made it up to Whitney Portal over the weekend. It was a little on the chilly side here in Mammoth, so we threw a camp up above Lone Pine, hiked the Alabama Hills,...Town Cleans Up Its Streets and Web Site
June 13, 2005
By Bump DiamondMan About Town That was a good effort, we figure, by Paul Oster and his cleanup crews Saturday. The town got really trashed this past winter on account of the near-record snows, and today...Mammoth Lakes Crashes
June 12, 2005
By Bump DiamondMan About Town People in Mammoth are so freaked out about the oh-poor-me “shoulder seasons” that it must be pointed out that the Town isn’t exactly helping matters in cyberspace. It was kinda obvious that...Z-z-z-z-z-z
June 11, 2005
By Bump DiamondMan About Town I know that’s not a real snappy headline, but what the heck? The thing is, I woke up this morning with tourists on my mind, figuring that I'd maybe see tourists gawking...Tioga Pass Opening Is Still Two Weeks Away
June 10, 2005
By Bump DiamondMan About Town While all the walkers, stalkers, Tuolumne trekkers and Cathedral climbers wait for snow to clear on Yosemite National Park’s trails, the motoized set—the drivers, motorbikers and RVers—got more bad news today regarding the...Subdudes to Headline Millpond
June 7, 2005
By Bump DiamondMan About Town It’s barely summer and we’re already talking about the fall, but that’s OK if the fall includes the Millpond Music Festival in Bishop. The subdudes, the Colorado-based country rock band that has...Breakthrough On Tioga Pass
June 6, 2005
By Bump DiamondMan About Town A lane has been cleared on Yosemite National Park's Tioga Road, and an eyewitness says it may not take until mid-July to open Tioga Pass, after all. D.J. Slalom, bless his heart,...Sollima's Masterpiece
June 3, 2005
By Bump DiamondMan About Town Anybody who knows everybody in Mammoth knows Bob Sollima. Bob's the guy who does stonework like nobody else, and he's here to say that he's created a masterpiece in the home of...Memorial Day Hangover
June 2, 2005
By Bump DiamondMan About Town Well, well, well, that was a fine old time we all had last weekend up here, with loads of visitors making their weird left turns, car alarms blaring and the like. Everybody seemed to...Tioga Pass: Mid-July?
June 2, 2005
By Bump DiamondMan About Town So some people were bummed about a July 4 opening of Tioga Pass. Given the new word from on high, they'll really be bummin' now. Try thinkin' mid -July, Bay Areans. ...Calendar of Events Into 2006
June 1, 2005
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Events by calendar date follow the "ONGOING" section. To add a listing, write to Bump Diamond care of feedback@mammothmonthly.com) ONGOING SkiingMAMMOTH MOUNTAIN SKI AREA. Last year, with an official opening slated for the second week of November, the...
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