🏔️🚵🏻♂️ Overview of Our Biking, Hiking & Exploring at Mammoth in 2024 🥾🚙
- Barbara Levine
- Oct 24, 2024
- 5 min read
Updated: Mar 11
June-October, 2024
Written by Barbara Levine
🏔️🚵🏻♂️ 1.0 Preface 🥾🚙
Stan and I usually spend a week each month in the vicinity of Mammoth Lakes, California, where we have a condo. Stan skis there during the winter and spring. I go with him, although I had to stop skiing 16 years ago due to replacement or fusion of body parts.
In the summer and fall, we ride our bikes on the many bike paths in the area. On our four trips from June to October in 2024, we add hiking and exploring as well.
Top: Stan & I biking on the Eastern Town Loop in Mammoth with Mammoth Mountain in the distance in August 2024
Middle: Stan & I hiking around Rock Creek Lake in September 2024
Bottom: I am exploring the gold mining ghost town of Bodie in October 2024
In June and October, Stan and I are on our own. On our other two trips, in August and September, we are led by our friend Gale who lives in Mammoth Lakes during the summer.
Gale, Stan and I on a hike to Minaret Falls in the Devils Postpile National Monument in August 2024
Stan skis with Gale during the winter months, and she knows all of the hiking and biking trails in the area. We have given her the nickname Ranger Gale.
🏔️🚵🏻♂️ 2.0 Destinations 🥾🚙
We visit an amazing amount of places during our adventures in the Mammoth area in the summer and fall of 2024. Many of them we see more than once. The scenery is breathtaking everywhere we venture.
The table below summarizes the 28 Destinations where we bike, hike and explore during the 18 full days that we are at Mammoth, starting at our condo.
Our 28 Biking, Hiking and Exploring Destinations at Mammoth in 2024
The following two maps display our 28 Destinations in red numerals. The first map shows Destinations 1-24, and the second smap shows Destinations 25-28.
Map 1: Destinations 1-24 at Mammoth in 2024
Map 2: Destinations 25-28 at Mammoth in 2024
🏔️ 3.0 Getting There 🚙
Mammoth Lakes (the red dot on the map below) is a 335 mile drive north from our home in Rolling Hills in Southern California (the green dot on the map).
We always take our Tesla when we travel. It needs two stops to charge its batteries on the trip to Mammoth, and we usually stop in Mojave and Lone Pine to charge. The trip takes us over 8 hours including time for breakfast and lunch.
🏔️ 4.0 Sights Along the Way 🚙
Once one leave the freeways and congestion of Los Angeles behind, the roads are fun to drive and the scenery is beautiful all along the way to Mammoth Lakes. Some of the sights that we especially enjoy are Red Rock Canyon State Park (yellow dot on the map above), Mt. Whitney (blue dot on the map) and the murals in Lone Pine (yellow dot on the map).
🏔️ 4.1 Red Rock Canyon State Park 🚙
Red Rock Canyon State Park is 25 miles north of Mojave along Highway 14. The park is renowned for its stunning red cliffs, buttes, and unique rock formations, covering over 27,000 acres of scenic desert terrain.
🏔️ 4.2 Lone Pine 🚙
The Tesla Supercharger that we always stop at going to or coming from Mammoth is in Lone Pine, which is 100 miles south of Mammoth Lakes. It has a great view of Mount Whitney and is right behind The Museum of Western Film History, which is covered with murals on the outside. There are also other murals to be seen in town.
Top: View of the Sierras from our Tesla Supercharger. Mount Whitney is directly above our car with my Trike on its rack. At 14,505', it is the highest peak, but it appears smaller because it is farther away.
Bottom left: A mural in a rocky facade of a motel next door on Main Street
Bottom right: A mural on the McDonald's two blocks north on Main Street
The Museum of Western Film History pays tribute to the legendary heroes and heroines of America’s West. Founded in 2006, the museum exhibits a collection of American western film memorabilia.
Top left: Lifesize statue of a horse in front of the museum
Top right; A horse, wagons and murals in front of the museum
Bottom: A large mural along the side of the museum
🏔️ 5.0 Home Base in Mammoth
We start all of our adventures from Home Base – our Condo(1) in Mammoth Lakes – where one or both of us have owned a ski condo at Sierra Manors on Old Mammoth Road for 50 years since 1975. Below are several photos taken outside of our current condo in the summer and fall of 2024.
Scenes Around Our Condo in the Summer and Fall of 2024
Upper left: Our condo on Old Mammoth Road
Upper right: View of Mammoth Mountain from our condo
Lower left: View to the left from outside our condo
Lower right: Bear carvings on the sign across the street from our condo for the Outbound Mammoth resort (formerly the Sierra Nevada Inn)
🏔️🚵🏻♂️ 5.0 Three Adventure Categories 🥾🚙
This has been on overview of our 28 biking, hiking and exploring adventures in the Mammoth area in 2024. To read about our adventures in each category, click on the respective photo below.
🏔️🥾 6.0 Related Missives 🚵🏻♂️🚙⛷️
I previously posted two missives about some of these adventures, as well as a missive about our ski trip to Mammoth in December 2024.
The first one covers our trip in June 2024. It is titled, 🚙 Stranded in the Wilderness with a Flat, June 2024 🛞.
You can read it by clicking on the photo on the right.
The second missive describes our most memorable hiking experience ever. It is titled, 🥾 Hiking to Crystal Lake Beneath Crystal Crag, Oct. 2024 ⛰️.
Click on the photo on the left to read all about it.
The third missive covers our skiing trip in December 2024. It is titled, ⛷️ Stan Crashes & Burns in a Ski Race, Dec. 2024🧑🏼🦽.
Click on the photo on the right to read all about Stan's skiing misadventure.
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