By Jason Blevins, Denver Post ASPEN — The future of snowboarding is Chloe Kim. Mere minutes after a brutal practice crash, the 14-year-old on Saturday toppled Kelly Clark’s dynastic halfpipe dominance. Spinning technical combos with a pair of 900s, a switch method and a switch 720 with floating amplitude, Kim’s final run in the best-of-three contest […]
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By USSA ASPEN, Colo. — X Games officially wrapped up on Sunday afternoon with ski superpipe. Fittingly, after four days of nonstop action, the final competition of the 2015 X Games lived up to the billing. With it all said and done, Canada’s Simon d’Artois won the superpipe gold in dramatic fashion, Kevin Rolland of […]
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By Stephanie Pearson, Outdoor Nordic skiing began about 8,000 years ago in Russia but it’s taken until now for the sport to start really catching on in the U.S. The proof is everywhere: Citizen races are booking out months in advance, alpine resorts are grooming new classical and skate-skiing trails (an offshoot of Nordic Skiing […]
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Two river otters were spotted Jan. 24 playing on the ice at Tahoe Keys in South Lake Tahoe. “Two otters put on a show for about an hour and a half, diving, resurfacing and climbing up on the ice to peacefully eat their prize,” Bob Sweatt told Lake Tahoe News. “Each otter ate at least […]
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By Jason Blevins, Denver Post ASPEN — David Wise of Reno battles gravity as an Olympic and X Games gold medal halfpipe skier. Now he’s battling an equally stubborn force: the International Ski Federation, or FIS. Widely embraced as the world’s best pipe skier, Wise lost his world champion title last week when he, like most […]
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By USSA ST. MORITZ, Switzerland — Lindsey Vonn (Vail) will wing her way home to Beaver Creek with a 64th career victory, taking a strong win Sunday over Austria’s Anna Fenninger in an Audi FIS Ski World Cup super G in St. Moritz. Vonn posted a 0.24 second margin for the win, coming just eight […]
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By Kathryn Reed CARSON CITY – Despite a more than 20-foot waterfall tumbling down less than a half mile from the trailhead, the Kings Canyon area is so dry it looks more like summer than winter. Dry sage and anemic manzanita dot the landscape early on. Ironically, it’s this dryness that has driven us east, […]
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By USSA KITZBUEHEL, Austria — After two hours of weather delays, the famed Hahnenkamm was shortened — with the fastest times coming in at under a minute. Steven Nyman (Sundance, Utah) was the top American downhiller on Saturday, taking fifth place —his best ever result in Kitzbuehel. After winning both training runs, Kjetil Jansrud of Norway stepped […]
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By Kathryn Reed Thousands of dollars in bicycle trail and ball field improvements on the South Shore were approved Friday by the South Lake Tahoe Recreation Facilities Joint Powers Authority. Money for the projects comes from Measure S/R dollars. This voter approved initiative affects the California side of the South Shore. The 6-year-old Sawmill bridge […]
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California State Parks and the U.S. Forest Service may continue prescribed fire operations on Jan. 26. Operations may take place near Tahoe City on Highway 28 between Rocky Ridge and Lake Forest, near Emerald Bay at Eagle Point Campground, the boat camp and behind Vikingsholm, Gardner Mountain near South Tahoe High School, Luther Pass near […]
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