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He's elusive, everyone knows that much. And we found one of his Vons lists recently. It had rice noodles, pad thai sauce, miso soup, bagged salad and Mammoth Brewing Co.'s Double Nut Brown.
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July 2005 Archive

Andrea Lawrence's Big Dream

July 21, 2005

    Andrea Mead Lawrence doesn’t do things halfway. The Olympic gold medalist’s Andrea Lawrence Institute for Mountains and Rivers (ALIMAR, www.alimar.org), founded in 2003, aims for a cohesive vision for the Eastern Sierra that integrates environmental values with economic...

3-Dot News: Dot-L Get You Nowhere Fast

July 19, 2005

So Mammoth’s government-sponsored Channel 51 has gone dark, because Town Council didn’t want to subsidize the operation.  One good thing about that is that people who used to fall asleep at Town Council meetings are not on camera anymore. …...

Road Cyclists of Mammoth, Rejoice!

July 14, 2005

By Bump DiamondMan About Town     Road cyclists of Mammoth, give thanks!    Starting July 18, and continuing for approximately two months, an engineering road survey crew will be working along the Mammoth Scenic (Escape) Road, between State Highway...

New Skate Park Nearly Doubles In Size

July 13, 2005

By Bump DiamondMan About Town     The Volcom Brothers Skate Park, currently under construction in the Trails neighborhood of Mammoth, has grown from a 22,000 sq. ft, single-bowl skate park into a 42,000-sq. ft., double-bowl facility, Park director Jane...

Inyo National Forest Axes 42 Jobs Here

July 11, 2005

By Bump DiamondMan About Town     A river of blood is running through the Inyo National Forest as the feds brought down the axe on 42 positions last week.    In a move called a “reorganization,” the Inyo National...

Mammoth Housing Is Mod, Man

July 11, 2005

By Bump DiamondMan About Town     The pieces that will determine much of the future look of Mammoth’s housing arrived on flatbed trucks in early July.     The trucks were headed for Old Mammoth Road near the Snowcreek...

25 Of 80 Miles Open At Bike Park

July 8, 2005

By Bump DiamondMan About Town     Here is a picture of the face of the Mammoth Mountain Bike Park, and you don’t have to feel like a dumbkopf for asking the question:    That’s a bike park? ---------------------->   ...

We're At 41 Percent. All Week. 65 Percent for Jazz Jubilee.

July 7, 2005

By Bump DiamondMan About Town     How often, statistically speaking, do you suppose that the weekend visitor occupancy rate is exactly the same as the projected weekday occpancy rate?    I'm saying it happens precisely once in a blue...

Tough Summer For the Critters

July 7, 2005

    Our pal and colleague Andy Selters happened to be up along Rock Creek near the pack station on the day of the last really big snow of the season. That was May 9—the day that Mammoth Mountain Ski...

For Mammoth's Airport, It's About Las Vegas

July 6, 2005

By Bump DiamondMan About Town     For some time, all we ever heard was that Mammoth Mountain Ski Area wanted air service that would bring midweek skiers traveling from hub cities Chicago and Dalla    Insiders at the ski...

It's Goddam Buggy Up Here

July 5, 2005

By Bump DiamondMan About Town     People bump into me on the streets, and they want to know what it's like up in the high country these  days, coming off the epic winter and all that.    Here's what...

Long Lines For No Apparent Reason

July 4, 2005

By Bump DiamondMan About Town     I don't mean to be gripin', what with a bona fide summer day out there and all, but wow the situation at Vons last night was way grim.    This was about 7...

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