Climate Change Presentation in Mammoth

Adapting As the Sierra Changes
Monday, April 14, 2008, 5-6pm
Open to the public
Mammoth Lakes Community Center on Forest Trail
Hosted by the Andrea Lawrence Institute for Mountains and Rivers

The event will feature presenter Marion J. Gee, an AmeriCorps member serving with the Sierra Nevada Alliance. “Currently, there are hundreds of resource planning process at work that will affect the future of the Sierra, but almost none are taking climate change into account,” she said in a press release. For more information contact andrea@alimar.org.

Residents of Nevada Save $10 at Mammoth

Hey, neighbors! Show your Nevada State ID for $10 off an adult lift ticket at Mammoth Mountain through the rest of the 2007/08 ski season. Monday through Friday. Not valid with any other offer. Tickets are not transferable.

1. Call 800.MAMMOTH 24 hours in advance to purchase.
2. Show proof of Nevada residency, such as a Nevada state I.D. or passport, at ticket window upon pickup.

Mammoth Mountain is 5 hours from Las Vegas and 3 hours from Reno.

Freeride Tour at McGee Mountain TODAY

Freeride World Tour Mammoth Challenge
Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008
9am – 12pm
McGee Mountain
There will be a total of 56 competitors (men/women, skier/snowboarder). The skiers/riders will have only one chance to show the judges what they can do. Awards will be at the base of McGee immediately following the event.

Prize Purse: $40,000
Men Ski & Snowboard: 1st – $10,000, 2nd – $4,000, 3rd – $1,500
Women Ski & Snowboard: 1st – $3,000, 2nd – $1,000, 3rd – $500

The Freeride World Tour is an international snowboarding and skiing competition based on big-mountain riding. The tour consists of two rounds of qualifying events (which took place at Mammoth early last week) followed by today’s final event at McGee Mountain. Event date and times are still subject to change.

Mammoth Ice Rink Now Open

Now we can skate! The Mammoth Lakes Ice Rink opened Monday, Jan. 7, 2008. Public skate sessions ($10 for adults and $8 for kids) are scheduled around hockey league and private lessons, so call in advance. Facilities include skate rentals and snack shop.

Mammoth Lakes Ice Rink: 760.934.2505
ML Ice Hockey League: 760.914.0856
Parks & Rec. Department: 760.934.2712 ext. 1234

Air Your Opinion on Mammoth’s Future

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has opened the 30-day public comment period on the Request for Operations Specifications Amendment by Horizon Air to Provide Scheduled Air Service to Mammoth Yosemite Airport.

“Air service is a critical element for the town to become a year-round destination resort,” said Mammoth CEO Rusty Gregory.

Read the Air Service Environmental Impact Statement (pdf)

Submit your comments to the FAA by January 11, 2008 5pm PST to Mr. Chuck Cox, Regional Environmental Technical Specialist, FAA, Phone 425.227.2243, Fax 425.227.1200.

Freeride World Tour is Coming to Mammoth

“It took ten years to realize a dream that we started dreaming during the first few years of the Xtreme in Verbier. We wanted to unite the best freeride athletes and we wanted to bring them together in a tour that stops at the world’s most beautiful freeride locations…” – event organizer Nicolas Hale-Woods

Qualify Jan. 14
Freeride World Tour Open & Quest comes to Mammoth Mountain January 14-17, 2008. To qualify for the Challenge at McGee Mountain later in the month skiers and snowboarders qualify at the Open and the Quest. Those who podium in both events will move on to the Challenge. Exact event details will be determined on weather and snow conditions.

Challenge Jan. 22
Freeride World Tour Challenge at McGee Mountain is January 22-26, 2008. Athletes from around the world have qualified to compete in the Challenge, where winners take $40,000. Exact event details will be determined on weather and snow conditions.

About McGee Mountain
McGee Mountain is several minutes’ drive down Hwy. 395 from Mammoth Lakes, California. Back in the day (before Mammoth was Mammoth Mountain Ski Area) McGee was the place to ski.

Cross Country Skiing On Hold

Update: Tamarack opened for the season Saturday, Dec. 8.

News from Mammoth’s Tamarack Cross Country Ski Center: Opening Day is postponed until we receive more snow (cross your fingers for the end of the week). The Tannenbaum race scheduled for Sunday, December 9 is postponed to Sunday, December 16. As soon as we get some snow I’ll see you out on the trails!

Looking for a Mountain Bike?

End of Season Bike Sale at the Adventure Center
The sale started Labor Day and it’s first come, first served, but there are still some great deals left.

Rocky Mountain Switch Demo bikes are $1200.

Giant Pistol Rental bikes are $450.

Kids bikes starting at $99.

Until supplies last. More info: 760.934.0706.

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”