By Matthew Vanatta, Grind TV After an exciting day of competition in the men’s and women’s slopestyle finals of the U.S. Burton Open in Vail on Friday, Saturday looked to be even more exciting with the men’s and women’s halfpipe finals taking center stage. The pipe was looking pristine Saturday morning for the kickoff of […]
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By Kathryn Reed In the distance a deep sapphire blue Lake Tahoe looked majestic. Up close the emerald cove was more rugged as the white caps hit the shore. Seclusion mixed with vast views of Lake Tahoe – that’s what the trek to Skunk Harbor is all about. If only it had been warmer. But […]
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By Antonio Olivero, Adirondack Daily Enterprise New York’s state-owned ski resorts will use 100 percent renewable energy by 2030, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday. Along with Whiteface, other ski resorts operated by the state Olympic Regional Development Authority — Belleayre Ski Resort in the Catskills and Gore Mountain in North Creek — have pledged to […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Review-Journal When President Barack Obama rolled out his March Madness college basketball bracket predictions on television every year, he acknowledged his participation in an illegal activity commonly enjoyed in workplaces nationwide. Now, a nonprofit Washington think tank is criticizing the federal ban on sports wagering, joining the chorus of […]
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By USSA VAIL – Jamie Anderson (Meyers) scored her 11th Burton U.S. Open podium on Friday, with a second-place finish on the challenging Vail slopestyle course. Chris Corning (Silverthorne, Colo.) was the top American finisher for the men, with one of the best runs of his career, landing in fifth. Anderson, who has never missed […]
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The Lake Tahoe Relay crew is moving the start/finish to the beach. The June 10 event will start at the Tahoe Beach Retreat in South Lake Tahoe. Lake Tahoe Relay is a relay race that consists of teams of seven, each running eight to 12 miles around Lake Tahoe. This year there will be a […]
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A winter storm watch is in effect for the greater Lake Tahoe area from Saturday afternoon through Sunday afternoon. The National Weather Service in Reno is calling for 1 to 2 feet of snow above 7,000 feet, and 10-18 inches elsewhere. The bulk of the white stuff is expected Saturday night into Sunday morning. It […]
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By Tony Berendsen On Earth we can look out in the sky and see clouds in our atmosphere. They are mostly made of water molecules in a gaseous state, and can be as large as a continent. They orbit the Earth as we are carried from day to night each day. From them we receive […]
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By Kathryn Reed TWIN BRIDGES – Straight-lining isn’t an option for newbies learning to ski at Sierra-at-Tahoe. And that’s a good thing because turning is often one of the most difficult things to learn. A serpentine has been built into the slope of Broadway to ease first-timers into turns in a more controlled environment. “Sometimes […]
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By Jay Bouchard, Outside Growing up in Goffstown, N.H., I watched my dad obsess about shoveling. The area gets approximately 70 inches per year, and my dad delights in getting rid of it. He estimates that he moves about 3,600 cubic feet of snow each winter and has hucked roughly 108,000 cubic feet since he […]
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