By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal California’s winter resorts have more safety measures in place than they did five years ago, but just barely. That’s according to the California Mountain Resort 2016 Safety Survey. The report, published by the SnowSport Safety Foundation, surveyed safety measures at 19 ski and snowboard resorts, including many in the Lake […]
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By Tony Berendsen There are many wonderful places on the planet to visit where a person can step outside on a dark night to view the cosmos. Lake Tahoe is one of the best of those places. It is an earthly pedestal adorned with the stars of our near space and the immensity of the […]
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By Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle The start of rainy season and its effects on the outdoors next year already are showing promise. The little-seen numbers from water agencies show there is a good chance of a great 2017 for camping at lakes and streams, and boating, rafting, fishing and water sports. Over the weekend, […]
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By Dale Kasler and Ryan Sabalow, Sacramento Bee It’s only a beginning. But it’s a strong beginning, and it offers at least a rain gauge’s worth of hope to a state enduring its fifth year of drought. The National Weather Service said Monday that the rainy season in the northern Sierra Nevada is off to […]
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By Kathryn Reed CAMINO – One aroma above all says Christmas – the scent of a freshly cut evergreen. It’s everywhere in the foothills of El Dorado County this time of year. It didn’t matter that the temperature was dropping and snow was beginning to fall, it just added to the magic of the countless […]
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By Mark Neuzil A canoe is like a banjo—it makes everyone happy. Propelled with paddles, sleek, long, narrow, lightweight—mostly open—and fast: Every canoe I’ve owned makes me smile at its memory. I remember my oldest daughter, at age 10, mimicking the cry of a loon, and the loon crying back, while on a Boundary […]
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By Kathryn Reed One of the perks of being director of the National Park Service is being able to check in on the land you manage. So it should be no surprise Stephen Mather was in Lake Tahoe on Friday giving a talk about his agency. But Lake Tahoe isn’t a national park and Mather […]
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By Beth J. Harpaz, AP Want to bust your winter vacation budget? Buy a one-day lift ticket at a ski resort on a holiday weekend. That’s “the most expensive way to go skiing. And that’s what people hear about — the $140 lift tickets,” said Mary Jo Tarallo, executive director of Learn to Ski and […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal The ski and snowboard industry has had more than its fair share of face plants when it comes to depicting women. Whether it is ads with women as worse skiers than men or apparel and gear makers who push inferior products on female customers just about anyone with open eyes and […]
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By David Ferry, Outside The latest trend in office design is to get as far away from the cubical as possible. Human beings, after all, labored for tens of thousands of years outdoors until relatively recently, so cultivating a natural work environment makes sense. Right? That’s the concept guiding cutting-edge companies like Google, which has […]
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