WINNEDUMAH IS BACK
A little more than a decade ago, frequent Eastern Sierra visitors Coty Hastie and his wife stayed in the historic Winnedumah Hotel in Independence and “fell in love with it, as[…]
Category: Off the Slopes
MINDBLOWING BUGS
Published in the June 6, 2026 edition. If you’ve been to Mono Lake in the summer, you’ve seen swarms of alkali flies. Maybe you stepped toward them and watched them[…]
MINE IN THE SKY
The Sierra Nevada has long held global economic significance, and you don’t have to look far beyond Bishop to see why. Over the course of a century, the Pine Creek[…]
GOOD FOR MORALES
I met Yaneki Morales at the Canyon Lodge Coffee Bar. I was immediately drawn to her easy-going, confident attitude and magnetic personality. Morales banters with her employees and makes a mean[…]
HELI-VATE YOUR SKIING
Published in the Dec. 6, 2025 issue. There are currently no heliski operations in California. Thanks to Sweetwater Heli, this will soon no longer be the case. The Bridgeport based[…]
YOU’RE MY BUTTERFLY, SUGAR BABY
Published in the Dec. 6, 2025 issue. How do you teach people to count butterflies? Well, community scientist Richard Rachman likes to start by taping Doritos to trees. Rachman is[…]
