Mountain Bike season is over at Mammoth Mountain but an Oct. 1 article in the Los Angeles Times Health section provides a look back on the season. Interviews from Mammoth’s Mark Hendrickson and Joani Lynch include this bit of advice: “I always tell people to put as much plastic on you feel comfortable with,” says Hendrickson. “It’s always nicer to lose plastic than skin.” Well said. Read the full article: Extreme Mountain Biking Spreads to Ski Areas.
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“It’s always nicer to lose plastic than skin.”
October 2, 20072-Woman Road Trip Happily Detours to Mammoth
September 25, 2007Suzanne and her friend Melanie, adventurer-bloggers, hit the links at Sierra Star Golf Course during their road trip of the southwest, the Women’s Health Are You Game? Road Trip. They received a lesson from PGA Pro Dave Schacht and took some great pics of the course in its mid-September splendor. Check out the rest of the Road Trip to see where they went surfing, spa-ing and more.
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September 14, 2007End 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.
Until supplies last. More info: 760.934.0706.
Save Our Golf Course Without Really Trying
September 14, 2007As fall spreads its cool touch over our fairways and greens at Sierra Star Golf Course we have to deal with annoying frost delays. But the more we golfers understand this reason for putting off play, the better the grass will be for all of us, and the better the Sierra Star maintenance crew can do their jobs.
A blade of grass cut at 1/8 of an inch is vulnerable to the elements. When dew freezes and creates frost on the delicate plant it becomes brittle, and like an egg shell, it will crack beyond repair. Enter fall golfers getting in their last swings of the season. A foursome can leave several hundred footprints on a green. The result of their steps is cracked, brown grass two or three days later; and a thin, sickly green in the spring. If you appreciate a quality putting surface you’ll be patient.
Mammoth in the News – Pecan Pullaway Bread & Golden Retrievers
August 16, 2007“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”
Mountain Bikers Can Hitch a Ride on Stump Alley
July 25, 2007
The Mammoth Mountain Bike Park will begin running Stump Alley Express, a.k.a. Chair 2, for uphill bike access this August. The high-speed quad will join the Panorama Gondola in carrying intermediate and advanced mountain bikers and their bikes to elevated starting points. Stump Alley Express deposits riders above McCoy Station, near the St. Anton Trail and Velocity.
Stump Alley Express runs 10am-4pm Saturdays and Sundays. Operations from July 28 through Labor Day (Sept. 3).
To get to Stump Alley Express, follow Minaret Road (a few miles past the Village) toward Main Lodge. The Stump Alley parking lot is 1/4 mile before you reach the Main Lodge/Adventure Center area. You can also get on the Bike Park Shuttle at the Village, which drops off at Chair 2 and the Adventure Center. A Bike Park trail pass is required to ride the lift – passes are available at the Adventure Center.
Keynote Speakers Announced for 2nd Annual Mammoth Life & Wellness
July 12, 2007
Mammoth Mountain Ski Area’s second annual late-summer health retreat, Mammoth Life & Wellness, is scheduled for August 24-26, 2007.
Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Pamela Peeke – An “edutainer” and author, Dr. Peeke is known as “the doc who walks the talk” as she guides people to achieve their own mental and physical Peeke Performance™.
David Simon, M.D. - Since he began his association with Deepak Chopra, M.D. in the 1980’s, Dr. Simon has become one of the nation’s foremost authorities on effective use of holistic health care practices, specifically Ayurveda - the 5000-year-old healing tradition of India. As CEO and Medical Director of The Chopra Center for Wellbeing, Dr. Simon is dedicated to catalyzing the prevailing health care system into a “healing system.”
Featured Speakers:
Max Simon - Director of Consumer Products at the Chopra Center for Wellbeing, Max Simon is also the creator of The Self Centered Tour movement. As the son of David Simon, M.D. and Julia Simon, an accredited Vedic Astrologer and Transcendental Meditation teacher, Max has been surrounded by consciousness and spirituality his entire life.
Tami Hulcher – Nationally recognized as “The Queen of Health™”, Tami is a health educator, president and CEO of Ola Loa, Inc., guest of TV and radio, a writer and a soon-to-be author. Her passions are children’s nutrition/obesity, cancer awareness, and the environment. Tami’s popular lecture series has been featured around the U.S. including medical facilities, schools, PTAs, athletic clubs, church and women’s groups and many businesses.
New this Year: If you attended last year’s event you will notice some significant changes.
- The event is being held earlier in the summer (last year it was in October). This is so that a greater amount of outdoor activities like yoga, Tai Chi, nature walks and bike rides can be enjoyed outdoors.
- There will be more cooking classes - by far the most popular and quickly-filled sessions last year.
Interested in attending? Registration is two-fold: choose which kind of pass you want (do you want to attend all three days, or just one day?). Then, once you have purchased a pass, go online to create an itinerary (this is not available yet). Mammoth is offering 2-day priority registration to those who book the lodging package.
More information: MammothMountain.com/lifeandwellness
Fourth of July Parade Float
July 6, 2007
Every Fourth of July Mammoth Mountain enters a float in the local parade. It’s hard to compete with 2005’s History of Chairlifts float, but this year we went back to the machine shop for help rigging up two new six-pack chairlifts to tow down Main Street and around the corner up Old Mammoth Road. The float celebrated “Cloud Nine,” the name of the new Chair 9 that is being installed this summer. The float passed by Mammoth locals like a fun Disco party cloud rolling through the sky – complete with the Temptations’ Cloud 9 playing from the speakers, Woolly dressed in his angel costume and all his friends decked out in fluffy white afro wigs.
Mountain Bike Tune-up
June 27, 2007After sitting in the garage all winter your mountain bike needs a tune-up before the first ride of summer. Here’s a checklist of things to get those wheels spinning:
Get to know your Eastern Sierra Trout
June 18, 2007
Brook trout are high country fish found in lakes above 10,000 feet such as Rock Creek and the Mammoth Lakes Basin. Brookies snack on insects and have white tail fins, red spots and red stomachs.
Wild Brown trout are hard to catch. They eat off the bottom of streams such as the 10-mile-long Mammoth Creek, which is regularly stocked by the California Dept. of Fish and Game. Brown trout are spotted with red and black. Also found in Convict Lake and other high alpine lakes.
Cutthroat trout hide out in backcountry waters around Mammoth and June Lake. You can identify them by red colorings under their mouth.
Golden trout is the state fish of California. Look out for some lakes marked as special habitats for these rare fish. They are marked with orange under-sides, with yellow and red spots. They are seen up high in areas such as Rock Creek.
Rainbow trout, with multi-colored markings, are the most commonly caught fish in the Eastern Sierra, stocked regularly in Mammoth Creek, Convict Lake, Rock Creek, the Mammoth Lakes Basin and June Lake.
Alpers is a private hatchery that produces world famous trophy-size Rainbows unique to the Eastern Sierra. The Mammoth Lakes Basin (Twin Lakes, Lake Mary, Lake George and Lake Mamie) receives regular plants of 2 to 12 lb Alpers trout, as well as the lakes on the June Lake Loop – June Lake, Gull Lake, Silver Lake and Grant Lake. Alpers fish are hand-fed and raised on the Alpers Owens River Ranch.
Mono County fishing season goes from the last Saturday in April to Nov. 15 every year. Anglers over 16 must have a fishing license. Contact Wilderness Outfitters at 760.924.REEL for information.
