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Whatup With "Indian Summer," Anyway?
September 28, 2005
By Bump DiamondMan About Town A couple of days ago, while waxing about fall weather, I asked where the term "Indian Summer" came from, and aren't we all happy that we have Wikipedia in our lives? Here's...Two Quakes Shake The Eastern Sierra
September 6, 2005
Two earthquakes, one of them measuring 3.4 on the Richter scale, shook up the Eastern Sierra Monday night and Tuesday morning. The U.S. Geological Survey described the first temblor, the 3.4, as a "minor quake." It happened...That Was Some Wind, Hey?
August 30, 2005
Enough for the bashing around with the wind, huh? A low pressure system moving throughout he Pacific Northwest and Northern Nevada yesterday brought strong winds to Mammoth and to the areas nearby. Wind gusts in...2.1 Quake Shakes Mammoth
August 29, 2005
A 2.1 earthquake, a so-called "micro-quake," shook Mammoth at 10:59 a.m. today. The temblor was clearly felt throughout the town, and it was followed by a very short aftershock. Here's the deal (computer generated) from...A Day At Mammoth's Ancient Lake
August 13, 2005
By George ShirkEditor, Mammoth Monthly We were standing on the shore of the old Long Valley Lake and trying to imagine a large body of water extending from the town of Crowley Lake all...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...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...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...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...A New Earthquake Prediction Tool by USGS
May 19, 2005
By Bump DiamondMan About Town A new earthquake probability tool that asseses potential follow-on temblors debuted on the Web yesterday, and the USGS gizmo caused quite a stir around California, judging by the mainline press. The San Jose...SNARL Lectures Begin May 12
April 26, 2005
Lake Tahoe is just up the road and to the north, but in Mammoth—particularly a snowbound Mammoth—sometimes it feels as if Tahoe’s a million miles away. That changes on May 12, when the director of the Tahoe...Amid The Snow, A Butterfly Migration
April 15, 2005
Thousands—perhaps millions—of Painted Lady butterflies are moving through the Mammoth high country in spite of one of the biggest winters in recent history. Paul McFarland, executive director of the Friends of the Inyo, said today that...Rime Ice Is Nice
February 2, 2005
It was a bluebird day in early January, just after the big New Year’s snowstorms blew out of Mammoth and the Eastern Sierra. Even longtime residents of Mammoth were slack-jawed by the beauty the storm left behind,...Red Fir Roulette
November 6, 2004
When he was the winter caretaker of the Reds Meadow Resort behind and below Mammoth Mountain, Bob Sollima almost got used to the sound of falling fir trees. Almost. These weren’t adolescent trees falling around him. These...
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