By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal Opponents of Nevada’s plan to give away nearly 3,000 publicly owned, free range horses in the mountains east of Reno are cranking up the legal, political and financial pressure against the plan. On Monday Lance Gilman, a Storey County Commissioner who helped recruit Walmart, Tesla, Google and others to the industrial […]
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By Alex Brown, Sierra I’m climbing the western flank of Mt. Washington, a jutting outpost of volcanic rock in the Oregon Cascades, when I hear the all-too-familiar thrum of helicopter blades. Nearly four months into my through-hike of the Pacific Crest Trail, I’ve come to associate the sound with bad news. In Southern California, rotors […]
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Alterra Mountain Company, parent firm of Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows, plans to spend more than half a billion dollars over the next five years, with $130 million in improvements for winter 2018-19. However, no money has been allocated for the Tahoe resorts for next season. At Mammoth, Canyon Lodge sees 60 percent of the […]
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Olympic champion Jamie Anderson of Meyers took the victory – her seventh U.S. Open title – to lead three U.S. Snowboard Team riders onto the podium in the slopestyle finals at the Burton U.S. Open in Vail on Friday. Due to high winds, competitors voted to cancel the women’s slopestyle finals and let the semi-final […]
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By Kathryn Reed CARSON CITY – We were held captive on our hike at Prison Hill. Captive by the beauty and number of trails we could explore. It was a first for the three of us to experience this section of Carson City. There are so many trails in the Prison Hill Recreation Area and […]
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By Sami Emory, Outside It’s a bright winter morning and Bob Coomber, better known as 4WheelBob, is taking it slow up a trail in Redwood Regional Park, near Oakland. His gloved hands keep tireless pace with each other on the wheels of his wheelchair. His long, sinewy arms tense and twist in response to every […]
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By Jane Braxton Little, Sacramento Bee State wildlife biologists researching the rare Sierra Nevada red fox have been trying to capture one for over a decade. On Tuesday, they caught the second one in three weeks. A nearly nine-pound female walked into a box trap near Manzanita Lake in Lassen Volcanic National Park. She joins […]
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As part of the third annual Military to the Mountains program, Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows will welcome 22 injured military veterans to stay and ski March 11-17. The Military to the Mountains program was created by the High Fives Foundation and is a collective effort between High Fives Foundation, Adaptive Training Foundation, Reno, Achieve Tahoe […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal When Marlin Lathrop went backcountry skiing on Sunday near South Lake Tahoe he could expect great snow and even better views. Knowing recent storms that delivered fluffy, hip-deep powder also increased the risk of avalanches Lathrop said he picked a line he thought would be safe. That’s why Lathrop said […]
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By Andrea Castillo, Benjamin Oreskes and Tony Barboza, Los Angeles Times MAMMOTH LAKES — One day after an avalanche roared down Mammoth Mountain, danger was hardly on the mind of snowboarder Caleb Hill as he carved through fresh powder under clear skies Sunday. Like hordes of other visitors to the Sierra Nevada resort, Hill, 24, was […]
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