By Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times Teenagers can be a notoriously sedentary group. Now a study showed that school may be a big part of the problem. The study, which used GPS devices to track when and where teenagers were getting physical activity, found that, on average, they were physically active only 23 minutes […]
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By John King, San Francisco Chronicle A calf was likely killed and eaten by wolves in Siskiyou County last month, state wildlife officials said — the first reported case of the endangered predators dining on ranchers’ livestock and an incident that may raise tensions over wolves’ reappearance in California. The killing of the calf prompted […]
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The North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District may continue prescribed fire operations on the west side of Incline Village the week of Dec. 21. Residual smoke may be seen in locations where operations have taken place over the last several weeks. To view a map with project locations and details, go online. Smoke from prescribed […]
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By USSA VAL D’ISERE, France – Laurenne Ross (Bend, Ore.) cracked the top 10 as Lindsey Vonn’s (Vail) bid for a record-tying downhill victory hit a bump in the road Saturday. Vonn, the current overall World Cup leader, was 0.13 faster than Switzerland’s Lara Gut at the first split time when she hit a bump […]
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By USSA VAL GARDENA, Italy – Coming off a career-best super G result at Beaver Creek, Andrew Weibrecht (Lake Placid, N.Y.) was once again the top American, finishing fifth, at the Audi FIS Alpine World Cup super G Friday. The winning ways of Norway’s Aksel Lund Svindal continued as the Attacking Viking captured the Val […]
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By Kat Kerlin, Davis Enterprise What happens to the land when a ski run is abandoned? Not much, if the run was previously graded, according to a study from UC Davis. The study, published online Wednesday in the Journal of Applied Ecology, evaluated six abandoned ski areas in the Northern Sierra region of California and […]
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By Erin Beresini, Outside Altitude training—it’s not just for elite athletes anymore. What with the rise of altitude chambers and hypoxic workout rooms in your local gym, oxygen-deprivation hypoxicator masks, and even hypoxic bed chambers (Michael Phelps slept in one in his run-up to the 2012 London Olympics), amateur athletes are now using these tools […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal TAHOE CITY — To people who dedicate their lives to mountains and snow the statement from Jen Gurecki might have sounded blasphemous. “I’m at a point in my life where I’ve had so many powder days I can’t even keep track of them,” Gurecki said before getting to the really shocking stuff. […]
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The Nordic Ski Center at Lake Tahoe Community College is open. Passes (day and season) and lessons (cross country and skate) are available through the college’s Connect Community Education program. The center offers 5 to 7 kilometers of diverse trails that are maintained and groomed two to three times per week by volunteers. The trails […]
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By Kathryn Reed By mid-January South Lake Tahoe is expected to initiate eminent domain proceedings in order to build the El Dorado Beach to Ski Run bike trail. The city doesn’t want to take the property, but instead is seeking the right-of-way to build the multi-use path. Based on some of the funding coming with […]
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