By USSA KITZBUEHEL, Austria – Andrew Weibrecht (Lake Placid, N.Y.) grabbed his second, and most prestigious, super G podium result of his career finishing second in Friday’s Audi FIS Ski World Cup on the classic Hahnenkamm track. “I couldn’t be happier. It’s awesome,” said Weibrecht. “Growing up everybody thinks about getting on the podium at […]
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By Eric Willemsen, AP Bill Johnson, the brash American who became the first U.S. skier to win an Olympic downhill title, died after a long illness, the U.S. ski team said Friday. He was 55. Megan Harrod, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Alpine team, said Johnson died Thursday at an assisted living facility in Gresham, […]
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By Brady Dennis, Washington Post Each approaching blizzard brings warnings about the dangers of shoveling snow, an activity that sends thousands of Americans to emergency rooms each winter. Don’t tackle the walkway if you aren’t in good enough shape, say the experts. You can get hurt or, even worse, trigger a heart attack or stroke. Medically speaking, a […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Similar, yet different. That’s one way to describe what the latest version of the Sierra Colina subdivision in Stateline looks like. “The original Sierra Colina project was going to be the premier project in the entire Lake Tahoe Basin. It’s unfortunate it ended up in litigation. Everyone lost,” Douglas County […]
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By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times If you’re a lover of U.S. national parks in general and Yosemite National Park in particular, you’ve probably been moved to outrage over reports that a New York corporation has claimed the trademark rights to several names associated with the park. These include the historic Ahwahnee Hotel, Curry Village, and […]
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By Perry Garfinkel, Los Angeles Times British author Graham Greene, in his 1980 book, “Ways of Escape,” put into words what most writers know: “Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which […]
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By Kathryn Reed Jim Nichols is walking away from his job as Douglas County manager with a check for more than $115,000 – the equivalent of six month’s pay, plus sick and vacation pay. At the Jan. 21 meeting it was stressed that Nichols neither resigned nor was he fired. Instead it was a mutual […]
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By USSA MAMMOTH MOUNTAIN – Hometown boy Brandon Davis led a U.S. sweep in slopestyle at the first U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix of the 2016 season Thursday at Mammoth Mountain. Davis (Mammoth Lakes) topped the field with a pair of 1260s, as Eric Willett (Breckenridge, Colo.) was second and Chas Guldemond (Reno) was third. Thursday […]
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By Bart Jansen, USA Today Commercial drones are about to get a lot closer to the action. The drone startup Cape Productions follows skiers down the slopes with remote-controlled aircraft to record video of their runs. The San Francisco company announced Wednesday that the Federal Aviation Administration gave it approval to fly hundreds of feet closer to people than previously allowed. The […]
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By Matt McCue, 99U Chances are you’ve seen a James Niehues painting before, but you didn’t know it. His canvas is the ski trail map, which is often overlooked for its artistic value. But since 1986, Niehues has created more than 240 different maps for resorts on five continents including Aspen Highlands, Sun Valley, Vail, […]
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