Mammoth Lakes in 1998

What happened

• The mountain
  Intrawest development and pre-sale boom

  Intrawest's marketing machine pushed Juniper Springs Lodge, Sunstone, the Village, Solstice and the Westin Monache through pre-sale, creating a new condo-hotel product class in Mammoth.

  every time Intrawest cranks up their marketing machine the interest in Mammoth real estate goes up and so do the values

  RE/MAX Mammoth Broker's Report →
• The mountain
  Intrawest raises its Mammoth stake to majority

  Intrawest increased its interest in Mammoth Mountain to roughly 58-59.5 percent, taking control.

  Wikipedia / Encyclopedia.com →
• Building & development
  Juniper Springs Lodge pre-sale launch

  Intrawest's first major Mammoth pre-sale event, held in Santa Monica over four days in April 1998, sold roughly 130 of about 160 units.

  Intrawest had a very successful “sales launch” on April 2,3,4 and 5 in Santa Monica.

  RE/MAX Mammoth Broker's Report →
• Snow
  1997-98 El Nino season - 451 inches

  Mammoth Mountain reported a season total of about 451.4 inches at Main Lodge.

  Mammoth Mountain official snowfall history →

What the paper was writing about

Headlines only, linked to the Mammoth Times. We read the Internet Archive’s copies and cite the paper; the words are theirs.

• 09-24MHS Varsity Football
• 09-24Trans-Sierra Highway 120 Coalition
• 09-24Family Birthing Room to Open Jan. 1
• 09-24Water Service Agreements
• 11-12Off-Highway Vehicles - Finding an Objective Solution
• 11-26Community Calendar
• 12-03Community Billboard
• 12-03A Decade of Dedication to College and the Arts
• 12-03'Tis the Season to Be Homeless
• 12-03A New Face Leading Ski School This Year
• 12-03E-Mail, Ski-Mail, and True-Life Stories
• 12-03Inspiration: Noah Was Teased
• 12-03MHS Football - The "Ball Guy's" Report
• 12-17Entertainment - Entertainment

66 more stories from 1998 are in the corpus.

The ground

370 recorded earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 or greater in the Long Valley Caldera, the largest at M4.9.