By USSA PARK CITY — The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association has nominated a record 94 athletes to the 2014 U.S. Olympic Team that will compete in Sochi. Fifteen are from the greater Lake Tahoe area, including Mammoth. The team includes eight athletes who have previously won Olympic gold. The team is significantly larger than […]
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By Dominique Mosbergen, Huffington Post Russia’s Sochi, Canada’s Vancouver, France’s Chamonix, Japan’s Nagano and California’s Squaw Valley all have one thing in common: These former and future Winter Olympics venues are each known as prime sites for cold-weather sports, and as breathtaking havens for sporting enthusiasts. But according to a new study, these winter wonderlands […]
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By Kathryn Reed Animals have a way of knowing when to prepare for winter, but if winter doesn’t come, it can be a problem. Those that use camouflage as a tactic from hiding from their predators are having a hard time of it in the Sierra this year because their white coat is standing out […]
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By USSA ASPEN -– U.S. Olympic team member Danny Davis (Truckee) earned a gold medal in his first halfpipe snowboarding final at X Games Aspen Sunday, just two weeks before the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. Davis led a U.S. sweep with Louie Vito (Sandy, Utah) taking silver and fellow Olympic team member […]
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By USSA CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Two-time Olympian Stacey Cook (Mammoth Mountain) led the U.S. Ski Team with 13th in super G Sunday, the last of four races held over four days in Cortina to close the Olympic qualification period. The U.S. Alpine Ski Team nominations to the 2014 U.S. Olympic Team will be announced […]
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By Kathryn Reed PLACERVILLE – Spring in January. It’s not something I want to get used to. But it is something I’m going to enjoy for hopefully what is just a brief interruption of winter. Not wanting to endure ice on the trails, we opted to head off the hill last weekend in search of […]
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By USSA ASPEN -– Olympian Jamie Anderson (South Lake Tahoe) earned silver Saturday at the X Games slopestyle snowboarding final after Norway’s Silje Norendal stomped a smooth run and pushed her out of the top spot. Anderson and Norendal will meet again when slopestyle snowboarding makes its historic Olympic debut at the 2014 Olympic Winter […]
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By Andrea Petersen, Wall Street Journal Vail Resorts has come up with a novel way to combat the leveling off of skiing’s popularity: buying up little Midwestern hills. The goal is to hook families on the sport at spots close to home and groom them for vacations at the company’s pricier Western mountains like Canyons […]
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By USSA CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — The U.S. Ski Team speed women continued to storm toward the Audi FIS Alpine World Cup podium Saturday as Stacey Cook (Mammoth Mountain) finished fifth and Julia Mancuso (Squaw Valley) seventh in the second of two Cortina downhills. With less than two weeks to the 2014 Olympic Winter Games, […]
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By USSA ASPEN -– Olympians David Wise (Reno) and Maddie Bowman (South Lake Tahoe) grabbed X Games gold at the halfpipe skiing final in Aspen on Friday night, just a few weeks before the historic halfpipe skiing debut at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. It was Wise’s third-straight gold medal at X […]
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