The mountain communities of Big Bear Lake, Big Bear City, Fawnskin and Sugarloaf are located in Big Bear Valley at nearly 7,000 feet in the San Bernardino Mountains of Southern California.

The Big Bear Mac User Group was formed in June 2006 by a very small and informal bunch of people who thought they were the only Mac users on the mountain. We ran a tiny ad announcing the Group in our local newsweekly and discovered we weren’t alone by a long shot! We’ve grown and successfully held regular monthly meetings, unless interrupted by severe winter weather. In addition to a beautiful alpine lake, our valley also includes the Snow Summit and Bear Mountain ski resorts.

The back-to-back challenging Winters of 2009 and 2010 convinced us to move to a seasonal schedule with meetings held from May through October. We meet at 6:00 PM on the 3rd Tuesday of the month at the historic Knickerbocker Mansion & Country Inn conference facility at 869 Knickerbocker Road in Big Bear Lake, CA 92315. We have complimentary Wi-Fi available, so please bring along your Mac, iPhone, iPad and/or iPod Touch.

The meetings are simple, fun, open to all and free! So if you have a Mac, iPhone, iPad, PC or are just curious about all things Apple, please come and check us out.

As we often see new faces, so we start with brief first-name introductions to break the ice, then review the latest Apple news, followed by a Q&A session, the Program and a closing Q&A session. All in all, it’s quite civilized and very straight forward.