A meadow restoration and road rehabilitation project will close the first 1.5-mile segment of North Canyon Road at Spooner Lake State Park to recreational traffic. The road closure will affect access to the Flume Trail via North Canyon Road and the Marlette Lake Trail June 1-July 12, Mondays through Thursdays from 7am-5:30pm. Access to the […]
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The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit will host the sixth annual Native Species Festival on May 30 from 10am-4pm at the Taylor Creek Visitor Center. This free family event is a way to spend the day outdoors and learn about native species of the Lake Tahoe Basin. Activities include guided walks led […]
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South Lake Tahoe Moose Lodge No. 1632, with Sierra-at-Tahoe, Harrah’s and Harveys are sponsoring the 10th annual Longest Day of Golf on June 18. Tahoe Paradise Golf Course is donating its course for the entire day. Golfers will start at sunup and play as many holes as they can before sundown. Last year more than $12,000 was […]
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All things beach related is the theme of the Zephyr Cove Tennis Club’s 2015 inaugural Hump Day Mixer on June 10. This means dressing in beach or summer attire. Mixers include a barbecue, raffle prizes, and an adult doubles round robin for all ability levels. Play starts at 5:30pm. The Hump Day Mixers are $10 for […]
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By Rob Kuznia, Washington Post HERMOSA BEACH — Christopher Knight makes no apologies: He likes a green lawn. But the actor best known for playing middle son Peter on “The Brady Bunch” also wants to do his part to conserve water. The solution? Fake grass. “It feels totally different,” Knight, 57, marveled one day last […]
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A fisher girl did on her first outing what some veterans have never done – catch a mackinaw weighing more than 15 pounds. “I think she wanted to cry she was so exhausted,” Capt. Andrew Lubrano of Nor-Cal Charters told Lake Tahoe News. Seven-year-old Circe Bailey had a single minnow on the other end of […]
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By Kyle Stock, BloombergBusiness Polaris Industries has built an empire (and an impressive stock market run) on cool and quirky machines—motorcycles, snowmobiles, and all-terrain vehicles. Its newest toy is particularly strange: the snow bike. Picture a dirt bike with a ski in the place of a front wheel and a snowmobile tread instead of a […]
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By Sarah Barker, Outside If you’re planning for a race with elevation gains, but live at sea level, a treadmill is a great way to simulate that. Photo: webphotographeer/iStock Seventy and sunny, the snow is finally gone—buh-bye treadmill, right? Not so fast, Bambi. The fast tread to nowhere still has a place in your training […]
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By Kathryn Reed Susie and Heather were the only ones we were supposed to meet along the way. However, there is so much snowmelt that pools of water look like new lakes. This is not an exaggeration. Water was everywhere. I expected the Glen Alpine Springs area to be a bit flooded, but it wasn’t […]
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Lake Tahoe Community College’s student-led business club, the Future Business Leaders of Tahoe, is hosting the second annual LTCC Community Games on May 30. This event-filled day will include a table tennis competition, kickball tournaments, dodgeball tournaments, a silent auction, raffle, food and drink, and live music. The purpose of the LTCC Community Games is […]
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