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Mammoth Monthly
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A year ago about this time, we'd already been skiing and boarding for a month.
This year, Mammothists are skiing all right, but not at Canyon Lodge and certainly not at Little Eagle.
High temperatures, a result of a powerful high-pressure system that was centered over Oregon, left Mammoth with crystal clear, dry skies for most of November. Until this week, that made a desert out of Little Eagle and Canyon lodges, which were to have opened for skiing and snowboarding on Nov. 15.
By Dick Dorworth I was a ski racer from Reno in the 1950s and ’60s, and the mountain and people and experiences of Mammoth were a huge part of my formative years and beyond. Mammoth is part of my heart and life experience, a guide to the mind. Only the inaccuracy of nostalgia allows people to claim that the ’50s were a “better” time for American skiers, but both my heart and mind tell me it was a simpler era. Today’s Mammoth Mountain skier gets miles more skiing on better and more varied terrain than the skier of 50 years ago. But it does not seem to me that the personal satisfaction, well-being and joy of the day’s skiing endeavors are any better.
Just got back in, and is the wind picking up out there or what? The temperature is starting to drop, too. The dog says she can smell snow coming our way. Meanwhile, across the street, we...
By Bump DiamondMan About Town As expected, Mammoth Mountain Ski Area announced tonight that the global resort giant Starwood Capital Group Global, L.L.C., headquartered in Greenwich, Conn., has purchased the majority shares of the resort operation. Starwood...
In spite of the first significant storm of the season, skiers, snowboarders, cross-country skaters and the rest of the winter throng are staying home in droves this weekend and next week. That means the slopes of Mammoth Mountain will once again be a kind of locals’ paradise, as will the aisles at Vons.
Sierra Club group hikes throughout the summer.
http://nevada.sierraclub.org
Friends of the Inyo Information
http://inyofriends.org
South Tufa Walks Naturalists lead a walk through a very nice something or other.
http://southtufantura.org
Summer Bird Walks Leaving from Mono County
http://birdybirdbird.com