7:35 "It's a historical event, started over 40 years ago" -- which is a commentary on how old I'm getting. When I lived in Mammoth Lakes there WAS no motocross event, so for me that's something "new." OTOH, it's been 51 years since I last lived in Mammoth, and I barely recognize the place. Population was 800 when I lived there in the early 70s; about 15X that now. The extent and pace of development for me at least has been staggering. The cabin we owned is long gone; was located right behind The Village, now been replaced by a monstrous home. BUT....the condo unit we owned is still there, right _next_ to The Village. Blows my mind. Dave McCoy put Mammoth on the map, and helped turn it into a go-to outdoor rec mecca. My favorite place in all of CA.
I sure hope Mike soaks his finger (stuck with hook) into peroxide for hours, to ensure he doesn't get infection. Worries me, after saving my fellow from a brown poisonous spider bite on his leg. Peroxide in magical. LOVED seeing the scenery, Thanks for sharing your walk with your babies the doggies. Gorgeous, absolutely Gorgeous area you live in! I pray you never repeat a winter as you experienced last winter, when I found your channel. Your work was astounding, and I'll never forget seeing the buried cabins, with on the chimneys showing. God Bless!!!! FISH ON THE GRILL- looked wonderful!
Just a heads up. Keep an eye on tropical storm Hillary which will likely become a hurricane in the next day. The models have this system moving up the Baja and moving into southern CA as a tropical storm on Sunday. Models are showing 10-15+" in southern CA into the Sierra Nevadas. If this holds true, there are going to be some serious flash floods in southern CA to southwestern NV.
The architect on the house has earned his keep...coming together along with the pad taking shape, and are those trout Bionic Kokanee? Or a different Atlantic Salmon offshoot? They never get that big in Oregon! Love the lemon/onion idea, as did sniiffin' Sadie!
Last video I watched was immediately after the second machine got stuck in the mud at the June Lake project. Looks like you got it out but I am curious if either machine was salvagable? Looks like you've made great progress in drying the site out and creating a building pad, I'm also curious what kind of drainage systems you put in place under the pad to prevent future subsoil water compromising the bearing strength of the soils?
1:45 I put a fish hook 🪝 through my fingernail in summer camp. The nurse drove me to the emergency room where they cut it half. This was over 50 years ago and I haven’t touched a hook since then!
I just noticed the beautiful view of the mountains from the front of the June Lake lot, I like it more every time you show it. Is the gravel pit running out of rock yet from this project? ; )
This video had it all Ben...nature, dogs, diesel diagnostic, construction. That house is a beautiful build. The pad has come a long way since there were 2 excavators buried above the tracks. Good stuff Ben. Keep them coming.
12:03 With a strong El Niño setting up I think your chances of a repeat of last winter are pretty decent. I'd consider the cutoff low offshore to be somewhat anomalous for August, but it's not unheard of. We finally got our heat wave up here in western WA this week; by our standards it's been pretty brutal, but overall I think this year's El Niño is setting up to give us up here a relatively dry Winter and _you_ guys should be getting pretty epic rain and snowfall. We'll see how it shakes out.
I live in western WA because I hate the heat, but here it is! LOL I don't know about you, but I grew up here and our summers over the last few years have been nuts! I think this is our new norm.
@@SuziPooziI grew up in SoCal but I'd always been drawn to the PNW, partly because of the climate up here. When I settled in Clark Co. I was immediately introduced to how hot it _can_ get here. Before this current heat wave I was diggin' the summer here; we'd been under the influence of low pressure offshore and a reliable marine push every day, and by comparison the summer had been cooler than most. So this heat wave was like getting hit by a brick. _Nothing_ will compare to the Heat Dome of 2021; that's the new standard by which all future heat waves will be judged. This current one was a record-setter but it'll never compare to 2021 and I don't ever want a repeat of _that._
@@briane173 the super hot weather is definitely not what I grew up with. Traditionally, it would be rain until after the 4th of July and somewhere we'd have up to a week that was in the 90s and the rest of the summer would be in the 70s and 80s with some rain tossed in here and there. If you wanted the hot weather we got now, you would drive over to Eastern Washington for it. Over the last couple years we've had a couple of big wildland fires which we've never had in the past on this side of the mountains. There was a big one in Lakewood yesterday that was pretty scary. I'm wanting my old weather back. LOL
@@SuziPoozi We had a fire start in La Center yesterday afternoon; think a house fire started and set off some grasses or conifers in the area. I believe it's been contained.
@@briane173 Oh no! I didn't hear about that one, the one we had here was a big deal in our local news. I'll have to look online and check it out. We had DNR helicopters and several fire departments on ours, I'm hoping yours wasn't that big and no homes or businesses destroyed. Luckily, ours was just grass and homes were spared.
Another great tour of your area, you all are living the dream! We’ve had so much rain this summer in New England, if it continues, there might be a lot of snow for this ski season🍻
Ben, your channel is the only one that I drop what I am doing to watch your newest video.
7:35 "It's a historical event, started over 40 years ago" -- which is a commentary on how old I'm getting. When I lived in Mammoth Lakes there WAS no motocross event, so for me that's something "new." OTOH, it's been 51 years since I last lived in Mammoth, and I barely recognize the place. Population was 800 when I lived there in the early 70s; about 15X that now. The extent and pace of development for me at least has been staggering. The cabin we owned is long gone; was located right behind The Village, now been replaced by a monstrous home. BUT....the condo unit we owned is still there, right _next_ to The Village. Blows my mind. Dave McCoy put Mammoth on the map, and helped turn it into a go-to outdoor rec mecca. My favorite place in all of CA.
The moto races started in about the late 60s.
@@GT-mn3bx 1968…55 years 2023!
Yeah fishing is a brutal sport, but somebody has to do it.
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Your camera story telling and music just keeps getting better ...
The fishing intro has an honest end of summer vibe.
Gory--should have been a warning and age restriction. 😉
Sadie!!! She gives no f's about the water or mud...❤😂😂😂😂
Family and I headed to Mammoth this Sunday-Saturday. Can’t wait.
check the transmission fluid...
i hope you get another big winter
They *might* get some significant rain around Monday/Tuesday from remnants of tropical storm to the South.
I sure hope Mike soaks his finger (stuck with hook) into peroxide for hours, to ensure he doesn't get infection. Worries me, after saving my fellow from a brown poisonous spider bite on his leg. Peroxide in magical. LOVED seeing the scenery, Thanks for sharing your walk with your babies the doggies. Gorgeous, absolutely Gorgeous area you live in! I pray you never repeat a winter as you experienced last winter, when I found your channel. Your work was astounding, and I'll never forget seeing the buried cabins, with on the chimneys showing. God Bless!!!! FISH ON THE GRILL- looked wonderful!
Just a heads up. Keep an eye on tropical storm Hillary which will likely become a hurricane in the next day. The models have this system moving up the Baja and moving into southern CA as a tropical storm on Sunday. Models are showing 10-15+" in southern CA into the Sierra Nevadas. If this holds true, there are going to be some serious flash floods in southern CA to southwestern NV.
The architect on the house has earned his keep...coming together along with the pad taking shape, and are those trout Bionic Kokanee? Or a different Atlantic Salmon offshoot? They never get that big in Oregon! Love the lemon/onion idea, as did sniiffin' Sadie!
Last video I watched was immediately after the second machine got stuck in the mud at the June Lake project. Looks like you got it out but I am curious if either machine was salvagable? Looks like you've made great progress in drying the site out and creating a building pad, I'm also curious what kind of drainage systems you put in place under the pad to prevent future subsoil water compromising the bearing strength of the soils?
1:45 I put a fish hook 🪝 through my fingernail in summer camp. The nurse drove me to the emergency room where they cut it half. This was over 50 years ago and I haven’t touched a hook since then!
I just noticed the beautiful view of the mountains from the front of the June Lake lot, I like it more every time you show it. Is the gravel pit running out of rock yet from this project? ; )
I never hear you complain about mosquitoes. What do you do to keep them away???
When are you going to start building the Mammoth Mountain Family Amusement Park?
bad gauge OR bad ground connection, corrosion perhaps from winter(s)
Watching Mike dig that hook out of his finger reminds everyone that fishes is that we've all been there done that and will probably again.
I thought Crowley was a barbless hook only place. ??
20:29 Giving OSHA reasons to fine people
Replace sending unite. Gauge is ok.
Hooked🎣 on Mammoth mountain life
Ouch ! Damn that looks like it hurts ..
Thank you for the great video today!
Fresh trout about my fave ever fish to eat.
Trans sending unit bad ?
those trails look so cool...
This video had it all Ben...nature, dogs, diesel diagnostic, construction. That house is a beautiful build. The pad has come a long way since there were 2 excavators buried above the tracks. Good stuff Ben. Keep them coming.
Love this fishing videos!
Please do the evening night off the shore at the park at Gull
12:03 With a strong El Niño setting up I think your chances of a repeat of last winter are pretty decent. I'd consider the cutoff low offshore to be somewhat anomalous for August, but it's not unheard of.
We finally got our heat wave up here in western WA this week; by our standards it's been pretty brutal, but overall I think this year's El Niño is setting up to give us up here a relatively dry Winter and _you_ guys should be getting pretty epic rain and snowfall. We'll see how it shakes out.
I live in western WA because I hate the heat, but here it is! LOL I don't know about you, but I grew up here and our summers over the last few years have been nuts! I think this is our new norm.
@@SuziPooziI grew up in SoCal but I'd always been drawn to the PNW, partly because of the climate up here. When I settled in Clark Co. I was immediately introduced to how hot it _can_ get here.
Before this current heat wave I was diggin' the summer here; we'd been under the influence of low pressure offshore and a reliable marine push every day, and by comparison the summer had been cooler than most. So this heat wave was like getting hit by a brick.
_Nothing_ will compare to the Heat Dome of 2021; that's the new standard by which all future heat waves will be judged. This current one was a record-setter but it'll never compare to 2021 and I don't ever want a repeat of _that._
@@briane173 the super hot weather is definitely not what I grew up with. Traditionally, it would be rain until after the 4th of July and somewhere we'd have up to a week that was in the 90s and the rest of the summer would be in the 70s and 80s with some rain tossed in here and there. If you wanted the hot weather we got now, you would drive over to Eastern Washington for it. Over the last couple years we've had a couple of big wildland fires which we've never had in the past on this side of the mountains. There was a big one in Lakewood yesterday that was pretty scary. I'm wanting my old weather back. LOL
@@SuziPoozi We had a fire start in La Center yesterday afternoon; think a house fire started and set off some grasses or conifers in the area. I believe it's been contained.
@@briane173 Oh no! I didn't hear about that one, the one we had here was a big deal in our local news. I'll have to look online and check it out. We had DNR helicopters and several fire departments on ours, I'm hoping yours wasn't that big and no homes or businesses destroyed. Luckily, ours was just grass and homes were spared.
Another great tour of your area, you all are living the dream! We’ve had so much rain this summer in New England, if it continues, there might be a lot of snow for this ski season🍻
lets hope dude. this rain has been the thorn in our side for bridge work this year.