Mammoth City

Jenny Townsend

Strangers are walking down my roads
From a world I cannot understand.
They murmur of moons
And space
And time.
When I lived these were symbols
Not rock underfoot
Not things touched and turned over
By the hand of man.
God was closer than stars
And we wept less at death.
We lived
But not long
And were patient.
Men reached down then
Down into the earth
Chipping at old rock
Hauling the crushed ore
In slow iron cars
Sure
That Promethean labor
Would be rewarded with gold

I died in March
Too cold to chip a hole in the earth
And waited with final patience
For a grave dug in the roots
Of a reborn spring.
A year passed
And the mine
And finally the people.
All that lived within the town were wind and memories.

Now strangers walk my roads
The old mine trails
Breaking a silence
That like grass
Has grown over the frenzy
Of past hopes
Needs, fears.
The tailings remain
Rubble of dreams
Young hands touch
But do not know
Can never understand
The price we paid for a mountain 🏔

Keeping the Hunting and Fishing Lodge, alive 🎣

Thank You Leo!
For putting up our signs🙌🏽
Opening day, this Memorial Day weekend. May 28th

The paint is still looking amazing 🤠👍🏽

Old Mammoth. El Casa Sierra in the distance.

The beautiful “Penguin Cafe”

Heading to the summit of Mammoth Mountain 🦣 🏔

In 2018, The Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (LADWP) decided to de-water Long and Little Round Valleys, CA. The LADWP notified leaseholders in that it would be eliminating their irrigation allotments. This water not only helps to support local pasture, it also plays a critical role in maintaining wetland and meadow habitat – much of which were lost in 1941 when LADWP built the Long Valley Dam and created Crowley Lake. Join us in demanding that LADWP provide a sufficient, binding water supply each year to keep these valleys green, with a healthy environment and a sustainable economy!
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Name a more beautiful dog team.
Big tip: You can’t 🐶

Tex’s Dog team helping a family arrive to their home, which later came to be the Lake Mary Store.
(C.1930)

Want to learn more about Tex and his amazing adventures with his dog team? Only one place.
The , we open Memorial Day weekend 🙌🏽. Ask us any question, and learn a thing or 2 🤠🤟🏽 see you guys there! More posts to come. As i go through our collections.

Tex’s Dog team taking a rest on a lake, just the usual, after a long mush.🐶 ❄️
(C.1932)

Arriving to Twin Lakes, was a little different in 1934. What do you notice that’s different?👀