By Melinda Myers Shorten the winter season with the help of spring flowering bulbs that you plant in fall. These beauties often provide the first bit of color, fragrance and winter relief each year. Look for new and unique ways to incorporate bulbs into your landscape. Create a seasonal water feature with a river of […]
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By Paddy O’Connell, Adventure Journal “Hold my beer and watch this.” The famous last words of a redneck, as the joke goes. But, could “take my picture and post this” be the last words of millennial backcountry skiers and snowboarders? It would seem very possible. The latest human factor in avalanche terrain decision-making is the […]
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By Tony Berendsen A lifelong passion for science and astronomy began for me with the gift of a Christmas telescope when I was a child. My parents did a pretty good job picking out the telescope I got, but that was 1959, there really wasn’t much to pick from in those days. Today things are […]
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South Tahoe High’s boys’ tennis team defeated Boulder City in the finals 6-1, 6-2. Louis Marin and Mickey Sullivan beat Truckee in the semifinals 6-3, 6-3, and went on to become the champions. Marin finishes his high school tennis career as one of the most decorated South Tahoe high School tennis players. He has won a […]
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Lake Tahoe area ski resorts didn’t fare well in the annual readers’ poll by Ski magazine. The October issue talks about the top 50 ski resorts. It’s divided between the West and East coasts. Whistler-Blackcomb took top honors for the West, while Tremblant in Quebec was the East’s best. Mammoth – which clearly isn’t a […]
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By Megan Harrod, USSA He speaks fluent German and lives in Bergen am Chiemsee, Germany. These two things alone make Tim “Jit” Jitloff of Reno unique among his teammates. Like the Europeans, Jitloff is a commuter in his job as a professional ski racer. However, Tahoe was his playground as a child, and he was lucky […]
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Between Mother Nature and snowmaking, Lake Tahoe area ski resorts are setting their opening dates. While these are not locked in Sierra cement, so to speak, this is what some of the resorts are forecasting: Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe: Oct. 31 Boreal: Nov. 4 Squaw Valley: Nov. 11 Alpine Meadows: Nov. 11 Northstar: Nov. 18 […]
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Two undercrossings designed to help reduce animal-vehicle collisions on a busy 25-mile stretch of Highway 89 between Truckee and Sierraville have been built. The $2.8 million project is the second in a series of planned mitigation and research efforts by the Highway 89 Stewardship Team. The highway goes through the Tahoe National Forest, which covers more than 1,300 […]
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Effective this week the burn suspension in Amador, El Dorado, Sacramento and Alpine counties has been be lifted by CalFire. Those possessing current and valid agriculture and residential burn permits may resume burning on permissible burn days. Agriculture burns must be inspected by CalFire prior to burning until the end of the peak fire season. […]
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By Ryan Sabalow, Sacramento Bee As tensions rise in Oregon and Northern California over reports of wolves attacking livestock, a $15,000 reward has been issued for information that would lead investigators to the poacher who killed a mother wolf in southern Oregon. On Oct. 6, investigators found a radio-collared female gray wolf known as OR28 […]
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