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A CHILLY FIRST CHAIR Neighbors Clash Over Old Mammoth Road Transport by Rea I’M Moving the PHOTO: REA Jake Elhart, owner of Tribe Snowboards, holds up last season’s Day News,sheet Views & Culture of the Eastern Sierra Tripper (left) and Smooth Operator (right). Read more about Tribe Snowboards, p. 13. Saturday, November 11, 2017 FREE Vol. 15, No. Pedro WHERE THE RED FIR GROWS? A CHILLY FIRST CHAIR Neighbors clash over Old Mammoth Road transport By Rea I’m moving. I’m moving,” no compromise was reached said one frustrated Red on Wednesday. “Fir Road resident, who The solution that ESTA has refused to give his name, dur- offered is to extend the Mam- ing a public meeting regarding moth Mountain Ski Area-run bus service on Wednesday, Red Line and Night Trolley so November 8. that they travel further down That empty threat was made Old Mammoth Road and in response to Eastern Sierra use Red Fir to turn around. Transit Authority’s (ESTA) Helm offered three options proposal that a large transit for service for the proposed bus use Red Fir to make a loop extended Red Line, including in order to serve areas off Old running every 60 minutes, ev- Mammoth Road. ery 80 minutes, or a “hybrid” John Helm, Executive Direc- 40/80 minute frequency. That tor of the ESTA, held the meet- hybrid would see service to ing to garner feedback from Old Mammoth Road every 40 residents who lost service last minutes in the morning until year when the Gray Line was 10 a.m. (to service school-aged discontinued. children who take the bus), The meeting brought out then reduce runs to 80 min- more people (approximately utes midday, then return to 40 20) than most Town Council minute runs in the evening to PHOTO:GILES meetings, remarked Public get children back from school Chris Ponce and Mike Kelley of Las Vegas, plus two more eager snowboarders, braved the elements to Works Director Grady Dutton. and employees home from board the first chair of the 2017-18 season at Mammoth Mountain Ski Area on Thursday, November 9. Helm emphasized the work. importance of compromise However, all of those solu- SNEAKY SUPERVOLCANOES among neighbors in the large- tions require a large ESTA bus ly-local area of town, although Are we all going to die? Probably not from a volcano, says Dr. Nathan Andersen see ESTA, page 8 By Giles he Long Valley Caldera ash spewed from Long Valley mostly solid, crystalline rock made national news this in less than a week, scatter- structure with a little bit of CHECKED OUT Tweek, when Dr. Nathan ing debris as far as Oklahoma. melt in some places. “This has Memorable Vons checker moves on to Snowcreek Andersen, a geologist at the Andersen’s co-author, Dr. Brad implications for the signals Georgia Institute of Technol- Singer, a geologist at the Uni- we’d look for if one of these By Lunch ogy, made it the poster child versity of Wisconsin in Madi- systems were to wake up and ou all know Fireball. for changing theories on how son, told The New York Times become eruptible again, and Even if you don’t know supervolcanoes work. that the Bishop Tuff eruption for what a supervolcano sys- Yhim, you know him. Scientists once thought that would have “completely wiped tem looks like.” For the past nine years you supervolcanoes were charac- out everything within 50 kilo- As part of his PhD disserta- could pretty much hear him terized by seething, molten meters of the caldera. All the tion, Andersen analyzed 49 before you could even see him masses of magma lurking just vegetation and biota in that crystals from the Bishop Tuff at Vons (and this is not a jab beneath the surface of the area would have been extin- and dated them by measuring about his relatively diminutive top-most rocks in the Earth’s guished.” how much Argon was present stature), running his mouth crust. Andersen proposes “It used to be that people in them. Argon becomes a gas in an endless feedback loop. that supervolcanoes are more thought big volcanoes were at high temperatures and can’t A living, breathing Energizer insidious. He says the magma being fed by an ocean of be retained in hot crystals. Bunny. chamber beneath Long Valley molten rock underground,” Andersen didn’t expect to see But last Friday (November 3) Caldera was much cooler and Andersen told The Sheet this Argon in crystals that were marked his last day of work at Vons. And it left some, particu- semi-solid right before it blew week. “We’re changing that. older than the known date of Fireball on his last day at Vons. its top in the massive super- These systems tend to be the Bishop Tuff eruption. larly local youngsters, feeling very disoriented. ing to see Fireball.” eruption that created the Bish- stored at cooler temperatures However, he found that the If they’re going to see him op Tuff about 765,000 years for long periods of time, as oldest crystals sampled were As one mother told The Sheet, “The kids would never now, let’s hope they have a ago. During that event, 650 magmatic mush.” Andersen preserving Argon prior to the taste for sushi, as Fireball has cubic kilometers of lava and said magmatic mush is a ask if we were going to Vons. see VOLCANO, page 18 They would ask if we were go- see FIREBALL, page 2 Canna-biz 141 year sentence Slipped a disc The Boo is back Trail tales /p. 8/ /p. 8/ /p. 5/ /p. 11/ /p. 12/ 2 I www.thesheetnews.com THE SHEET I Saturday, November 11, 2017 FIREBALL the Ted Carleton ....... Jack of all Lunches continued from page 1 760.937.4613 / [email protected] taken a job waiting tables at the Bistro at Snowcreek. June Simpkins...Jack of everything else Sheet: How did you get the name Fireball? 760.937.3967 / [email protected] Fireball: It was given to me when I first moved up here to ski, al- sheet Mike Bodine ..................Writer though lately, some people have started calling me Furball ‘cause I News, Views & Culture of the Eastern Sierra don’t ski as fast as I used to. [email protected] Fireball grew up in Orange County and graduated from Alhambra “Reparare contritum semen extruant Sarah Rea ........Associate Editor/Writer High School back in 1985. facilius quam homnibus.” [email protected] His mother died of cancer when he was in the 8th grade. His father -Frederick Douglass Charles James .............Contributor walked out of the house one day when Fireball was about 20 and 760.614.0546 literally disappeared. Fireball and his sister, who lives in Dana Point, never saw nor heard from him again. JACK LUNCH Clouds McCloud .........Ass-trologer PUBLISHER After high school, Fireball got a job working construction, building Abagael Giles ....Associate Editor/Writer P.O. Box 8088 the first tract homes in Sunnymead and Fontana. It was hotter than [email protected] hell, tough work with a tough boss. “The foreman was a hard-ass,” Mammoth Lakes, CA 93546 recalls Fireball. “There was no b.s. It was get the job done. But he 760.924.0048/[email protected] was like a surrogate dad to me. He taught me to be a worker … I love An adjudicated paper of general circula- For a subscription to The Sheet contact tion. ©2017 The Sheet, all rights reserved. Lunch at his above e-mail address, or call the working.” office. Issues are mailed out bi-weekly. Cost He worked construction for about nine years and then worked for www.thesheetnews.com is $65/year. the phone company (SBC) for another 13. Check out for more content, daily updates and free online Fireball said he moved to Mammoth once SBC disbanded and left classifieds. the state. His transition from employee to customer has been quick. Sheet: Any romantic partners or entanglements? “First time I went back, I forgot a bunch of stuff at the check stand Fireball: I was engaged once. as I left,” he said with a laugh. Sheet: Any long-term plans or dreams? Fireball: I’m a day-to-day guy. I’m not looking to get rich. I actually MHS Volleyball finally succumbed to Santa Clarita Christian on dread money. If I came into some, I’d probably give it all away … I’ve Tuesday night in the CIF Semifinals. got no long-range plans—unless there’s a sugar mama out there. This was after defeating Southland Christian in the quarters (Satur- Fireball is looking forward to his new job at the Bistro and working day) and Lake Arrowhead Christian in the Round of 16 (Nov. 2). for Chef Dave Morriss. He is also looking forward to the fact that it’ll By reaching the semifinals, the team gained a berth in the Califor- be just a short walk to work from his residence in Old Mammoth. He nia Division 5 State Tourney which begins Nov. 15. anticipates he’ll be working evenings Wednesday through Sunday. 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