Lake Tahoe snowboarders didn’t fare well in the superpipe at the Winter X Games in Aspen on Sunday. Hannah Teter of Meyers was sixth with a 67.33, while Elena Hight of South Lake Tahoe was eighth with 59.66 Chloe Kim repeated her gold medal performance from a year ago, with a score of 95 on […]
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By Sally McGrane, New York Times HÜMMEL, Germany — In the deep stillness of a forest in winter, the sound of footsteps on a carpet of leaves died away. Peter Wohlleben had found what he was looking for: a pair of towering beeches. “These trees are friends,” he said, craning his neck to look at […]
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One of the Sierra’s enduring traditions, the Great Ski Race, returns March 6 after being canceled due to lack of snow the last two years. It is billed as the West’s largest cross country event. The 30-kilometer race began in 1977 with 60 racers. Today more than 1,000 skiers of all abilities participate. Racers depart in […]
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By Kathryn Reed The South Shore cycling community has big plans for this year that involve allocating money for trails and signage, as well getting jurisdictions to coordinate improvements to better leverage the limited dollars that are available. Shay Navarro, head of the Bicycle Advisory Committee for the South Lake Tahoe Recreation Joint Powers Authority, […]
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Lake Valley and Tahoe Douglas fire protection districts, California State Parks and the U.S Forest Service may continue prescribed fire operations beginning Feb. 1. To view a map with project locations and details, go online. Residual smoke may be seen in locations where operations have taken place over the last several weeks. Smoke from prescribed […]
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By USSA GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany – A bruised and banged up Travis Ganong (Squaw Valley) led five Americans into the top 30, with a sixth-place finish, in the Audi FIS Ski World Cup Saturday on the Kandahar downhill track. “I wasn’t really sure I was going to be able to ski this week with my knee – […]
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Maddie Bowman of Meyers won her fourth consecutive X Games gold medal in ski superpipe on Jan. 29. She is the first woman to land a switch 900 in the superpipe during competition. The 22-year-old said she learned how to take off backward with 900 degrees of rotation on Wednesday. Judges gave the Sierra-at-Tahoe skier […]
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Jamie Anderson of Meyers duplicated her 2015 X Games accomplishment by taking home of the silver Friday in snowboard slopestyle. This is her 11th X Games and her 11th medal. Anderson, who rides for Sierra-at-Tahoe, scored a 89 Jan. 29, two points behind winner Spencer O’Brien of Canada. Taking third at the Aspen, Colo., competition […]
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By Chris Murray, Reno Gazette-Journal An injured shoulder kept Reno’s David Wise from making a legitimate run at another X Games gold. Wise, competing with a grade II AC joint sprain/separation in his shoulder that he suffered a week ago, wasn’t able to get in his groove Thursday night in the Ski SuperPipe in Aspen. The […]
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A winter storm warning has been issued for the greater Lake Tahoe area from Friday at 4pm through Saturday at 10am. The National Weather Service in Reno is calling for 6-10 inches of snow at lake level, with 1-3 feet above 8,000 feet, and a couple inches down to 4,000 feet. It will be a blustery storm […]
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