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Just saying.

Sept. 8 to Honor Dave & Roma McCoy

High Sierra Fall Century Ride
One of the country’s best 100-mile rides is a course with no stoplights and only one stopsign along the east side of the High Sierra. Avid cyclist and Mammoth Mountain Ski Area founder Dave McCoy and wife Roma have been major supporters of the Fall Century since it began. The couple will be honorary marshals of the race on Sept. 8 – look for them in their Rhino.

Warren Miller Freedom Foundation Dinner
On the evening of Sept. 8 Warren Miller will present a Lifetime Achievement Award honoring Dave’s entrepreneurial spirit in the ski industry. This tribute event is planned by the Mammoth Lakes Foundation, Warren Miller Freedom Foundation and Mammoth Mountain Ski Area. Details: Where: the Mountainside Conference Center at the ski area’s Main Lodge. When: Wine and hors d’oeuvres at 5pm, dinner at 7pm. Tributes and toasts following dinner. Live auction items will be presented to raise funds for both foundations. Table Sponsor opportunities are available for $3,000, individual reservations for $250.

Get a foursome together on Sunday, Sept. 9 for the Mammoth Lakes Foundation’s 8th Annual Sierra Star Golf Classic (pictured)to raise funds in support of the college. More info: 760.934.3781.

Mammoth in the News – Pecan Pullaway Bread & Golden Retrievers

“Not long ago, Mammoth Lakes, Calif., was the kind of place where night life might involve hanging out in the condo-village game room and pumping quarters into the Elvira-Mistress of the Dark pinball machine,” begins a feature story in the August 3 The New York Times Escapes section. The article goes on to cover everything from airport development to Schat’s Bakery’s “gooey pecan and brown-sugar pullaway bread that can turn family breakfasts into tug-o-wars.” Read “An Old Ski Town Faces the March of the Wine Bar”

The San Francisco Chronicle published a fun story on Sunday, August 5 that dog-owners don’t want to miss. “Whoever said dogs don’t feel human-style emotions never saw the double-take my golden retriever did as we rode the gondola up 11,053-foot-high Mammoth Mountain,” writes the paper’s executive editor of Travel John Flinn. Read “Mammoth Lakes’ dog days of summer”

Mammoth to Dedicate Memorial Aug. 25

On Saturday, August 25 Mammoth Mountain Ski Area will dedicate a permanent stone monument at the summit of Mammoth Mountain in loving memory of Mammoth Ski Patrollers Walter Rosenthal, James Juarez and John Scott McAndrews. The monument was designed by local artist Larry Walker and was made possible by donations. Walter, James and Scott are memorialized in a location from which guests can overlook Mammoth Mountain and beyond. The summit location was chosen for its inspiring 360-degree view and the fact that it will be accessible in any weather.

If you are not an intermediate or advanced skier I recommend visiting the monument this fall, when you can walk down to the monument (5 to 10 minutes on foot).

Those who plan to attend the dedication ceremony need to RSVP online.