Tara Peterson

She was born and raised in what used to be a “small town” in Southern California called Mission Viejo. Life was all about swimming for the Nadadores back then. In 1972, her family made its first trip to Mammoth and the love affair began. Ever since then, Mammoth and the Eastern Sierra has been her home away from home. She finally decided to make it her real home when she moved here after college in January of 1993.Mammoth almost became her home in 1987, when she had threatened to come up and be a “ski bum” just for one season after high school. Instead, she ended up spending those ten months working for a company in Grenoble, France. Upon her return, she immediately started working on her French degree (with business emphasis) at UCLA. A couple of years into her education she decided that she really wanted to go towards the health field and subsequently changed her major to Kinesiology. Her journey at UCLA came to an end in December of 1992, when she finally finished with Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology. All through college, Mammoth was still that home away from home, and being on the UCLA ski team made it that much easier to find reasons to come to Mammoth! Straight out of college, she was set on finally living the dream of living in Mammoth. After a few jobs including driving shuttle buses, selling coffee and bartending for about five years, she eventually made her way into the real estate business when she started working for Intrawest in the beginning of 1998. Wanting to be able to serve all her clients completely, she parted from Intrawest in 2001. Practicing real estate here in Mammoth has given her the opportunity to do everything she likes in a place she loves, all the while meeting wonderful people. Mammoth has no shortage of recreational possibilities to offer and this, combined with the amazing beauty of this area, is what has drawn and kept her here. She has made Mammoth her home and now it is the home of her family as well. Spending time with her daughters is time that she cherishes. It has brought her pleasure over the years to help other families and individuals find their “home” up here in the beautiful Sierras where they can start making memories and she looks forward to being able to do that for her clients.