By Ruth Anne Kocour Roads to K2: There are none — no flight-seeing tours either. Located in the heart of the Karakoram mountain range, K2 is surrounded by glaciers, wild rivers and many of the world’s highest peaks, 19 more than 25,000 feet tall. K2 straddles the border between Pakistan and the Xingjian Uygur Autonomous […]
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Parasol Community Collaboration presents “It’s 2010. Is Your Business Social?” on Oct. 7 from 9am-noon. RSVP: pcc@parasol.org or (775) 298.0119 Description: Learn how to use social media in your marketing mix and how to effectively listen, engage and measure your social media efforts with real-life examples specific to non-profits and small businesses. Topics include: -The […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe suddenly became walkable Saturday. “I’m at a wine walk,” one guy said to the person on the other end of his cell phone. A block of Ski Run Boulevard was closed off for the inaugural Sample the Sierra. It was all about blending wine and food together to make […]
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By Kathryn Reed MEYERS — A hike gone wrong, the perfect birthday party, secrets from a hotel room. All of these are wrapped into Janet Smith’s book “All of a Sudden Nothing Happened.” The Tahoe resident and Lake Tahoe Community College instructor read from her book of poetry on Friday at Bona Fide Books to […]
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By Felicity Barringer, New York Times For fly fishers who pride themselves on a conservationist ethic, it hurts to discover that they may be trampling on that ethic every time they wade into a trout stream. Blame their boots — or, more precisely, their felt soles. Growing scientific evidence suggests that felt, which helps anglers […]
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Dry, windy weather is the forecast for all of Saturday. This in turn means a red flag warning when it comes to the threat of fire in the Lake Tahoe-Reno region. The National Weather Service’s red flag warning is in effect from 11am-11pm Aug. 21. There is a lake wind advisory until 8pm. Winds are […]
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By Jane Braxton Little, Sacramento Bee Sierra Pacific Industries’ 15 power plant workers learned Friday that the timber company was closing the electricity-generation facility at the end of their shifts. Sierra Pacific officials also sent a notice to NV Energy, a Reno utility company, announcing that they were suspending operations at the Loyalton plant “effective […]
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• Suggestions are being sought for next year’s update of the Lake Tahoe Bike Trail Map. Send ideas to Like Tahoe Bicycle Coalition, P.O. Box 1147, Zephyr Cove, NV 89448 or by email to biketahoe@aol.com. • Aramark has launched a new user-friendly website, that takes clients, employees and travelers on a tour of the company’s […]
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By Kathryn Reed POLLOCK PINES – Advantages to leaving the basin with a canoe include avoiding a wicked downpour and knowing you have something to float in if it’s really bad when you get back. Luckily the canoe could stay on the truck as we returned to South Tahoe on this particular Sunday. As clouds […]
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By Marie C. Baca, Wall Street Journal INCLINE VILLAGE — In hot pursuit of a notorious burglar along the shores of Lake Tahoe this year, Carl Lackey organized a night patrol to catch the perp. His tools included a fire extinguisher, pepper spray and two dogs that respond only to commands in Russian. “These dogs […]
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