Mammoth High Altitude Porsche Tour 2024, June 15

Date/Time
Date(s) - 06/14/2024 - 06/16/2024
All Day
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Location
Puerta Vallarta Restaurant

Contact
Name: Millie Smith
E-mail: missmillie44@icloud.com
Phone: (775) 783-0037

It’s Father’s Day weekend 2024 and time for the annual Mammoth High Altitude Porsche Tour. This tour is a parade of Porches, from vintage air-cooled to the newest supercars and everything in between (including Cayennes and Macans). This tour was designed for fun and camaraderie. The highlight is a 119-mile, 2.5 hour tour that takes you along the spine of the Eastern Sierra, around the June Lakes, past Mono Lake, and across the high desert. You’ll enjoy a handful of epic S-turns, fast stretches of straight highway, rolling hills, and whoop-de-dos that will send your belly into your throat at the right speeds.

All PCA Regions are welcome to attend. In past years as many as 100 Porsches have participated, from as far away as Toronto, Ontario.  We have no special hotel rates to announce this year, but can recommend the Westin-Monache, the Village Lodge, Juniper Springs, the Alpenhof Lodge, among others (no shortage of lodging in Mammoth Lakes).

This year the number of organized tour events has been reduced to two events, the 119-mile Saturday morning drive, followed by a group lunch. Sierra Nevada Region volunteers will be on hand in front of the Puerto Vallarta Restuarant (3325 Main Street) at 7:30 AM Saturday morning to park Porsches, signup participants with the PCA insurance waiver, and handout packets with turn-by-turn driving instructions and maps. The insurance waiver for the Friday drive to Mammoth Lakes from Reno, snv.pca.org/events/drive-to-mammoth-for-the-high-alpine-porsche-tour-3/, includes the Saturday drive.

Following the Driver’s Meeting at 9:00 AM, the drive will begin promptly at 9:30 AM. We will run two or more tour groups (depending on the number of Porsches), one group around our route in the clockwise direction and another group in the counterclockwise direction. Returning to Mammoth Lakes at approximately noon, the drive concludes with a buffet lunch at Toomey’s, 6085 Minaret Rd (directly across from Burger’s Burgers). We have a reserved room. Cost is $25.00 per person, includes tax and tip and 1 non-alcoholic drink. Pay at the door, by cash or check payable to SNR PCA. Wine and beer can be purchased separately.

We are still unable to reach a reasonable agreement with the town of Mammoth Lakes to display our Porsches along Canyon Road on Saturday afternoon as we have in the past. We’ll try to bring this popular Tour event back in some future year.

While you are in Mammoth Lakes, we recommend two short scenic drives that you may want to take on Saturday after lunch or Sunday before returning home.

The first drive follows Lake Mary Road to the Lakes Basin, winding past several alpine lakes, including Twin Lakes, Lake Mary, Lake George, Lake Mamie, and Horseshoe Lake. You will have numerous photo opportunities, especially at Twin Lakes with the Twin Lakes waterfall as a backdrop, so bring your camera or smartphone!

The second drive follows Minaret Road up past the Yodler and the Mammoth Mtn Ski Area Main Lodge (here’s an opportunity to take your picture with the Ski Area’s Mammoth) to Lookout Point Road where you can park and view the Minarets, Mt Ritter, Mt Banner, and numerous other Sierra Nevada peaks to the West, as well as Crowley Lake and the White Mountains to the East. Your handout will include maps for both drives.

Please register below if you plan to participate in the Saturday drive; it will help us organize the drive. Also, please indicate your PCA region in the comment section when you register.

Questions:   Ozzie Smith (nevadaoz24@gmail.com or 619.913.9296)                                                                    or Millie Smith (missmillie44@icloud.com or 619.843.9500)

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