โThe Town,โ The Rise, Fall, & Redevelopment of Mammoth Lakes | Powder Magazine THE TOWN RECKONING AT MAMMOTH LAKES In July 2012, Mammoth Lakes, California declared bankruptcy. After disputing with a developer for nearly a dozen years, the town faced a judgment nearly three times its annual budget. The mood of the ski resort, a town of 8,000 tucked in an isolated patch of the Eastern Sierra, was darkened and anxious as reality […] SnowBrains | August 27, 2013 6 Comments