Andy is a multi-talented writer and photographer long based in the Eastern Sierra. He has climbed and explored cultures in many ranges around the world, written a variety of hiking and mountaineering books, and his multi-media presentations are highly regarded around the country. He also teaches ChiRunning and T’ai-chi. His forthcoming book of photographs and essays is titled Skyscape, Seeing the Sky in California’s Eastern Sierra.

Christian is lead photographer for Red Bull USA, and senior photographer for Powder Magazine. His work has been featured in Outside, Men’s Journal, Sports Illustrated, ESPN Magazine, Maxim, FHM, GQ, and most major ski publications. He is based in Mammoth Lakes.

Dana is a freelance writer and editor based in Mammoth Lakes. Hailing from the foothills of Los Angeles, she is a true California girl who wouldn’t want to be anywhere else (except maybe in Paris, Tennessee, Seattle, New Zealand, North Carolina, Bali or Vietnam). In six years of living and writing the Mammoth lifestyle she believes there is still plenty to unearth about our beautiful corner of the world.

David has written for the Discovery Channel, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Men's Journal and The New York Times. He's the author of Yosemite & the Southern Sierra Nevada: A Complete Guide—named "Best Guidebook of 2008" by the Outdoor Writers Association of California and winner of a 2009 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award. Contributing editor-at-large for popular online travel mag MatadorNetwork.com, he is now also trying his hand as online editor for this venerable publication. He lives on the mountain in Mammoth with his wife, his two boys, and a canine representative of the Aztec God Xolotl.

John has been an Eastside resident since 1982 and has been photographing in the west and abroad for approximately thirty years. His images have appeared internationally in advertisements, magazines, books, calendars, cards and posters. John is an avid backcountry skier with a great love of the outdoors and is presently a snow surveyor. He currently lives with his wife Leslie in the straw bale home he designed and built in southern Mono County.

Kim has been renting various igloos in Mammoth Lakes since 2005. In a previous life she played everything from proofreader to managing editor for a handful of shred mags, including Powder, Bike, and SG: Surf, Snow, Skate Girl, and continues to contribute her personal flair to books, grant applications, scripts, Web sites, marketing collateral, and on-screen graphics for live TV. Kim co-founded the Mammoth Lakes Trails and Public Access Foundation, a local nonprofit, in 2006, and currently acts as its Development & Community Relations Director. When she’s not adding to her collection of recreation-related bruises, she’s either putting her KitchenAid to good use, fussing over her kitten, lifting heavy things in sets of 10, or working on projects for her writing and editing company, The TypeRighter. She likes to dance to the rap jams.

Lara loves the outdoors, so it’s no surprise that after graduating from UC Berkeley she moved to the Eastern Sierra. Lara writes for, and serves as the Web and Special Publications Editor for Mammoth’s local paper, The Sheet. Add freelance writing, with work published in Bicycling Magazine and on her Mammoth Town Buzz page at Examiner.com, and Lara is generally a busy bee. When she’s not working you’ll find her skiing, snowboarding, mountain biking, or burying her nose in a good book.

Peter is a sports photographer who grew up in the Eastern Sierra. He's known for capturing the action, as well as the personality of his subjects. His event coverage includes everything from the smallest detail to the peak moment, while his photographs of individual athletes show both their action and lifestyle. He is always looking for a unique angle to photograph a common subject. Peter has already amassed an impressive list of clients including: Snowboarder Magazine, Billabong, Mammoth Mountain Ski Area, RedBull, and xxxxxx.

Though she spends most of her time in front of a Mac as publisher of Spotted Dog Press and owner of Coons Gallery in Bishop, Wynne rode her motorcycle to Alaska and back, and hiked to the summits of more than 600 peaks in California and the southwest, many with her two cattle dogs. Benti has lived in Kenya and Denmark, published High & Wild by Galen Rowell, Born Free and Equal by Ansel Adams and is the author of Favorite Dog Hikes In and Around Los Angeles.