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Mammoth Monthly
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December 01, 2005
by George Shirk
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.November 30, 2005
by Bump Diamond
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.
November 28, 2005
by Brandon Russell
Among the Mammoth Mountain ski cognoscenti this season, look for three things: fat, straight and all-terrain.
“Sidecuts don’t work for everything,” said Silver Chesak, a buyer for Footloose Sports and a superb skier. Rather, Chesak said ski shops are investing in fat, 88-millimeter skis that have a limited sidecut—suddenly the perfect all-terrain ski for intermediate and advanced skiers on Mammoth Mountain’s famously soft snow.
November 21, 2005
by George Shirk
A light earthquake measuring 4.0 on the Richter scale shook the sparsely populated Bodie Hills at 1:33 a.m. Monday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Two light aftershocks occurred in the same area at about daybreak. Meanwhile, after a weeklong series of microearthquakes along the Hilton Creek Fault last week, Bishop was hit with a smallish 2.3 microearthquake at 6:18 a.m. Monday. That quake occurred in the series of faults in the Volcanic Tablelands.November 15, 2005
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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.November 13, 2005
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God knows I’ve had my share of slopeside meltdowns. But today I have two joyfully skiing teenagers. Here are a few things I learned along the way: * This was your idea. Never forget that teaching your kids to ski or snowboard was your idea, not theirs. I’ve never heard of a 4-year-old who, out of the blue, started begging to spend a whole day in ski school.by Mammoth Monthly
She was sprawled flat on her back midway down Sesame Street, her little arms spread-eagle and her snowboard straight up in the air. “I can’t get up!” she shrieked. “For God’s sake, Emma, stop screaming!” yelled her dad, who was about 50 feet downhill from her. “Just roll over and GET UP!”November 11, 2005
by Bump Diamond
Having lived through last year’s hunk o’ burning thighs, you swore you'd be physically prepared for skiing and snowboarding this year. Are you? If not, cramming leg strength and cardio workouts the way you did for college exams is as dangerous to the outcome of your winter sports experiences as not doing them at all.November 10, 2005
by George Shirk
So I was on the chairlift shortly after 8:30 this morning, and never mind that the town was in sunlight. Opening Day 2005 on Mammoth Mountain began with a dense fog on the top of Chair 1, not that anybody really minded. It was a hoot all the way around, except for people who get all goofy in dense fog, like Kathy Copeland.November 07, 2005
by Bump Diamond
By Bump DiamondMan About Town Mammoth Mountain could get as much as 18 inches of snow in the next two days, about a half-foot more than was originally forecast. The snow, in advance of a slow-moving cold...November 06, 2005
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By Bump DiamondMan About Town Mammoth Mountain Ski Area operations chief Clifford Mann has always called it "Magic Mountain" instead of "Mammoth," because sometimes it seems that things just can't go too much wrong up on the hill. ...October 29, 2005
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By Bump DiamondMan About Town A 3.1-magnitude earthquake shook up Mammoth late this afternoon. The epicenter was 11 miles southwest of Toms Place, and 14 miles from Mammoth. The parameters of the quake looked like...October 26, 2005
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By Bump DiamondMan About Town I saw Keith Dawley carrying a pair of skis on his bike yesterday, and that's as sure a sign of winter as swallows in Capistrano signal spring. Keith has a ridiculous string...by Bump Diamond
By Bump DiamondMan About Town Now *that's* an alarm clock, Ché. Just after 6:30 this morning, Bobby Hoyt's Ski Patrol began testing the avalanche guns on Mammoth Mountain. The target was over by Chair 9, so everybody...October 25, 2005
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By Bump DiamondMan About Town We all awoke to snow today. Not actually in town, but there's certainly a nice dusting on the ski hill and the ridges today, meaning that yes, winter continues its slow, inexorable march...October 14, 2005
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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...October 04, 2005
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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...by Mammoth Monthly
By Bump DiamondMan About Town The suspense as to who is going to buy Dave McCoy's controlling shares of the Mammoth Mountain Ski Area is going to end this week, according to company employees who say they have...October 02, 2005
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By Nook LoganSpecial to MammothBlog Oh wow that was an ugly one. The Mammoth University Mushers got whupped, 62-0, by the Wizards of Cal St. Polytechnic, Waverly — a school so small and obscure that most people...September 30, 2005
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By Bump DiamondMan About Town That was some launch last weekend of the Volcom Brothers Skate Park, but town officials now say it might have been a leetle too successful. "It's important for users of the park...September 29, 2005
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By Bump DiamondMan About Town First of all, let's get this Ishpeming thing down straight. Ishpeming is in Michigan. It claims to be the birthplace of organized skiing in America and as such, it has the U.S....September 28, 2005
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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...September 27, 2005
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By Bump DiamondMan About Town Mammoth Mountain Ski Area has a large master plan for remaking the Main Lodge Area. All the ski area needs right now to make it a go are a few people poking around...September 26, 2005
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By Bump DiamondMan About Town That was one short summer, huh? No doubt there will be warm days ahead in the weirdly named Indian Summer (can someone please explain that to me?) and probably there will be...September 21, 2005
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By Bump DiamondMan About Town If there is anybody out there who has not visited the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest because of something so inconsequential as fees, Saturday is the day you can bust on in to the...September 18, 2005
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By Bump Diamond Man About Town All over town these days, people are holding nine fingers above their heads and chanting, "We're No. 9! We're No. 9" OK, so they're not, but it's not beyond the realm...September 16, 2005
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By Nook LoganSpecial to MammothBlog In what has become a rite of autumn, bears are hassling the new crop of Mammoth University freshmen. According to MU security, four freshmen, calling themselves "The Four Freshmen," each complained in class...September 15, 2005
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By Nook LoganSpecial to MammothBlog Mammoth University football might hit the big-time in the next few years if Mushers head coach Ronald "Bigs" LaBlash succeeds in his current quest. "I've applied to the NCAA for Division 1-A...September 14, 2005
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By Bump DiamondMan About Town Veteran mountain bikers who maybe have taken one too many tumbles over the handlebars might be wandering around Main Lodge tomorrow, wondering just where in the heck are the 2005 USA Cycling Mountain...September 10, 2005
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By Bump DiamondMan About Town So there was Dennis Phillips, cyclist extraordinaire, riding in a pack of Eastside Velo racers, when the peloton zoomed over Watterson Summit and began the long—and usually delicious—descent to Crowley Lake. But...June 25, 2005
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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...May 19, 2005
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By Bump DiamondMan About Town Can't tell the difference between the U.S. Nordic Team and the U.S. Cross Country Ski Team? We can't either, because they're mostly the same people. Still, because this is an Olympic...May 18, 2005
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By Bump DiamondMan About Town The U.S. Nordic Team for the upcoming Olympic year has been named. As in keeping with the theme of the week—that is, naming names, straightening out the scorecard—here they are. And thanks...May 17, 2005
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By Bump DiamondMan About Town The mogul busters and high-flyers of the U.S. Freestyle Ski Team have been named for the 2005-06 season, and that's an Olympic Year, so heads up, everybody. Here they are, and thanks to...May 16, 2005
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By Bump DiamondMan About Town Like 'em or not, the 2005-06 U.S. Ski Team has been named by the United States Ski Association. As everyone knows, this is an Olympic Year, with World Cup champ Bode Miller saying...April 21, 2005
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By Bump DiamondMan About Town I got up there today at the crack of 9, jumping in on Chair 15, then to Canyon Express via Swell. This being the last week for Lincoln Mountain, everyone there was...April 14, 2005
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The road to the 2006 Winter Olympics in Italy goes through Colorado, Utah, Oregon and New Jersey, but it won't go through California. Neither the Lake Tahoe resorts nor Mammoth will host any sanctioned event in alpine, snowboarding, freestyle...February 02, 2005
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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,...November 21, 2004
by Bump Diamond
It is a Sunday morning at Tamarack and the cross country ski tracks are freshly groomed. Sunrise alpenglow complements the perfect silence. Even the mountain chickadees stop their three-note descending whistle, fee-bee-bay, as if to enjoy the moment. And then the silence is broken by a whoosh and a blur of orange, a friendly greeting and fresh ski skate tracks where none had been before. That was Ilana Levin—a sparkle in the snow, hissing past.November 06, 2004
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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...Advertisement
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