Snowboarder magazine’s THE HIT comes to Sierra Resort on March 12. New this season, THE HIT lets locals experience the excitement of a large-scale photo shoot with an oversized custom build and the industry’s top photographers clicking shutter buttons from every angle. Get that perfect shot and it could end up in Snowboarder magazine. Sierra-at-Tahoe […]
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Gatorade Free Flow Tour is Feb. 5 and 6 at Sierra-at-Tahoe. This high-profile event will bring Northern California’s top amateur skiers and snowboarders out for a weekend of jibbing, jumping and bonking on a custom build. Three events – Slopestyle, Superpipe and Junior Rail Jam – will emphasize quality terrain park features, skier/rider style, and […]
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Volcom is opening its North American tour at Sierra Resort, bringing the winter’s first large scale event to the Lake Tahoe region Jan. 2. This jam-format, grass roots event is free and accessible to any and every snowboarder who can hit a rail. The custom build on Broadway draws one of the largest competitive turnouts […]
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Threats. Murder. Revenge. Todd Borg’s eighth novel — “Tahoe Heat” featuring his long-standing protagonist private detective Owen McKenna — involves a fatal fall at Lake Tahoe’s Cave Rock, encoded piano strings, and a wild mustang named Heat. Borg’s series of mystery thrillers set exclusively around Lake Tahoe will be the featured topic of the next […]
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The annual Valhalla Gala in the Valhalla Grand Hall on is Dec. 4 from 5-11pm. It’s an evening of fine wine, hors d’oeuvres, dinner and dancing in front of the 40-foot high stone fireplace. A silent auction will be before the end of the evening. This is a sell out every year so early reservations […]
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By Kathryn Reed It doesn’t matter the calendar is closer to the fall equinox than winter’s – white stuff is all over the Lake Tahoe Basin. Rain began turning to snow off and on Sunday afternoon, with just snow coming down in the evening. About an inch fell at lake level in South Lake Tahoe, […]
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More votes have been counted affecting the South Lake Tahoe City Council, but not who the three finalists are. As of Nov. 6 at 5:45pm: • Claire Fortier, 1,776 votes, 17.05 percent • Tom Davis, 1,529 votes, 14.68 percent • Angela Swanson, 1,325 votes, 12.72 percent • Alice Jones, 1,202 votes, 11.54 percent • Joy […]
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• The North Lake Tahoe Resort Association is trying to lure Bay Area residents with a billboard in downtown San Francisco. Tahoe used to use billboards all the time – now it’s the exception, not the rule. • On Nov. 11 at 11am the American Legion in South Lake Tahoe is honoring all living and […]
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By Kathryn Reed BOSTON — It started as a cycling vacation, but turned into more of a culinary tour of New England – at least that’s the trip I was plotting before leaving Tahoe. New England can certainly be a foodie experience, but that isn’t what I had in mind. Beer, cheese and ice cream […]
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The National Great American Smokeout, which asks smokers to give up tobacco for 24 hours in hopes that they will quit for good, is Nov. 18. Smoking cigarettes remains the No. 1 preventable cause of premature disease and death in the United States, according the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. An estimated 21 percent […]
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