By Scott Powers, Team USA Whitney Gardner realized quickly she was overmatched when she first competed in the Audi FIS Ski Cross World Cup. The competition was stronger and more experienced. The jumps intimidated her. The features scared her. The courses were too challenging. She was constantly falling. She just wasn’t meeting her own expectations. […]
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The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit is seeking comments on a proposal for the management and uses of existing roads, trails and facilities in the basin. There are four components: maintenance and management of roads, trails and facilities; authorization of outfitter guide activities; authorization of events; authorization of special use permits for recreational […]
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By USSA BEAVER CREEK, Colo. – Ted Ligety (Park City) and Andrew Weibrecht (Lake Placid, N.Y.) stood on the podium Saturday, taking second and third place, respectively, at the Audi Birds of Prey super G. It was Weibrecht’s first Audi FIS Ski World Cup World Cup podium. It was a foggy, snowy day at Beaver […]
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By Kathryn Reed Changes to Heavenly Mountain Resort that are expected to be ready for the 2016-17 ski season are mostly based on what skiers have requested. The resort wants to: · Build a permanent 300-square-foot ticket sales kiosk adjacent to the Bear Cave Ski School near Tamarack Lodge; · Relocate the Red Fir handle […]
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North Lake Tahoe and Tahoe Douglas fire protection districts, the Nevada Division of Forestry and the U.S. Forest Service will continue widespread prescribed fire operations beginning the week of Dec. 7. Operations on the North Shore may take place on the west side of Incline Village and in Carnelian Bay. On the South Shore, off […]
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By Heather Hansman, Outside In late September, a hiker in New Mexico’s Santa Fe National Forest encountered a shocking sight: a several-hundred-yard swath of felled trees on a hillside in the Pecos Wilderness. Whoever did it leveled off hundreds of englemann spruce and subalpine fir trees a few inches above the roots and left the […]
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By USSA BEAVER CREEK, Colo. — Andrew Weibrecht (Lake Placid, N.Y.) reminded ski racing fans that he is still a threat in downhill, tying for fifth place after starting 34 at the Birds of Prey downhill. Travis Ganong (Squaw Valley) and Steven Nyman (Sundance, Utah) both grabbed top-15 spots, taking 12 and 15, respectively. The […]
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By USSA LAKE LOUISE, Alberta – Lindsey Vonn (Vail) collected her 16th-career World Cup victory at Lake Louise in the first of two scheduled downhills, but the run was not without pure athletic spectacle to avoid serious disaster. Vonn clocked the fastest splits all the way to the midsection on course where she decided to […]
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Tahoe Institute for Natural Science and the Tahoe Rim Trail Association are making an excursion to Tahoe Meadows to see the Geminid meteor shower. This annual meteor shower regularly puts on a display with frequent shooting stars throughout the night. It gets its name from its trail, which radiates from the constellation Gemini. Representatives of Space […]
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Washoe Lake State Park will offer two opportunities this month to learn about past holiday traditions and local history. Christmas Past is a family-friendly, Christmas-themed slide show. It will cover past holiday traditions combined with local history from places that include Virginia City, Fort Churchill, Buckland Station and other locations in Northern Nevada. Rangers will also […]
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