By New York Times For first-time skiers, expectations and reality can often diverge on the slopes. They imagine gracefully swishing down an Alpine mountain, but then spend their first day falling. After that, most give up. Indeed, according to the National Ski Areas Association, 83 percent of first-time skiers and snowboarders never return to the […]
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Lingering effects of the storm that roared through Lake Tahoe are subsiding. Heavenly Mountain Resort resumed operations today after being closed for the last three days. Thursday it was wind, Friday and Saturday it was power issues that kept the resort from opening. Power also affected operations at Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows on Dec. 13. […]
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By USSA BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. — Under a setting sun at the 10th annual Dew Tour on Dec. 13, Torin Yater-Wallace and David Wise would put down some of the best halfpipe runs of their freeskiing careers to take the top two spots on the podium in men’s halfpipe — Wallace in first and Wise in […]
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A missing South Lake Tahoe teenager was found dead Dec. 13, having been struck by a 50-foot tree during the storm. Dejon Smith, 14, had been reported missing Dec. 11 from his Wildwood Avenue home. Officers on Dec. 12 spoke to someone who had seen the teen late the night before in the wooded area […]
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By Deborah Sutton, Deseret News Burning the midnight oil implies working overtime, long into the night, to get something done and ultimately to get ahead. But the belief that sacrificing a few hours of sleep for a few more hours of work will lead to higher achievement has been debunked by science. “According to the Division […]
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Today there is a ski resort called White Hills operating in Canada. Back in Tahoe history, there was a White Hills Ski Resort at the junction of highways 50 and 28 atop Spooner Summit. It lasted only six years, starting modestly in 1946. By 1950 it included a chairlift and a T-bar. But the overwhelming […]
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By Kathryn Reed PHOENIX – Mileage is not always the determining factor in how sore one will be after a hike. Terrain has a lot to do with achy muscles, too. Nine days ago I found out how true that statement is. Camelback Mountain is considered by some to be the toughest hike in the […]
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By Steve Hutchison I am writing to express our collective disappointment at the treatment we received during an encounter with a member of the State Park police on Nov. 8 at D.L. Bliss State Park at Lake Tahoe. My wife, our Friends, their boys, (6- and 8-years -old), and our two small dogs, a 14 […]
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To the community, While the recent “storm of the century”, as proclaimed by many meteorologists, didn’t deliver as much snow as originally thought, it did provide Squaw Valley-Alpine Meadows with nearly 20 inches of snow and the ability to open more terrain at both mountains today. The storm did not deliver as much snow as […]
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By Kathryn Reed A former cook at Mirabelle restaurant in Stateline is now the owner. The eatery had closed in September after owner-chef Camille Schwartz retired. It is reopening Dec. 19. Kenn Druely, who moved to Lake Tahoe two years ago with the intention of buying the French restaurant, wasn’t able to because of financing. […]
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