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Mammoth Monthly
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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.
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.
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