The top four finishers in men’s snowboard superpipe finals at the Dew Tour in Breckenride are from the United States. Sixteen riders competed in what is a qualifying event for the Olympics. The 600-foot pipe is longest one built today. Greg Bretz of Mammoth upset favorite Shaun White. White, who rides for Northstar, had to […]
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By Alliance of Action Sports David Wise, who skies for Northstar, won the Dew Tour men’s freeski superpipe final at Breckenridge. Like the qualifier, a stacked roster of 14 freeskiers — following both Torin Yater-Wallace and Simon Dumont each having to pull out following falls in the practice just before the final — had two […]
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World-famous ski mountaineer Kim Havell will share her tale “The Magic of Mountain Partnership” at Squaw Valley’s Olympic Village Lodge on Jan. 9. The 7pm event is the third installment of the 2013-14 Winter Film Series put on by Alpenglow Sports in Tahoe City. The instructor and guide for Ice Axe Expeditions, San Juan Outdoor […]
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By USSA ST. MORITZ, Switzerland -– Two-time Olympian Stacey Cook (Mammoth Mountain) continued to make strides in super G Saturday as she jumped from the 37th start position to finish 16th in St. Moritz. It’s the second straight weekend Cook has made a big move in super G after vaulting from 38th to 18th last […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe Community College’s soccer teams won’t play their first games until next fall, but already enrollment is up because of the program. Many of the players who have played for Ben Wade at Lassen Community College in Susanville are transferring to the South Lake Tahoe school. They want to be with […]
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U.S. Forest Service fuels management crews will continue prescribed fire operations off of Highway 89 near Luther Pass Dec. 16. Crews will continue to burn piles in the Luther Pass overflow campground and will burn as much as weather and conditions allow through the week. Smoke from this prescribed fire project area can be expected, […]
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One day California will have its 209th state park. Until then, the California Tahoe Conservancy will have its name on Van Sickle Bi-State Park. “We want to transfer it to state parks,” CTC Executive Director Patrick Wright told his board Dec. 12. The CTC runs the country’s only bi-state park. When the 725-acre park opened […]
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Lake Tahoe athletes showed their prowess Friday in Breckenridge at the Dew Tour. South Lake Tahoe’s Jamie Anderson won in snowboard slopestyle, while Maddie Bowman won the freeskiing halfpipe final. This is the first of five events that will determine the U.S. Olympic team in halfpipe and slopestyle. The Sochi Games are the first for […]
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By Tamara Keith, NPR In Russia, organizers of the 2014 Winter Olympics have called on dozens of shamans to pray for snow. But the centerpiece of the Olympic snow strategy is man-made: a massive system that features more than 550 snow-making machines. Sochi, Russia, which is hosting the Olympics, is a resort town on the […]
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By Jason Blevins, Denver Post The race for Olympic glory gets supercharged this week in Breckenridge, and the brawling will be most brutal among the Americans who forged the sports of halfpipe and slopestyle. The Breckenridge Dew Tour is the first step this season for U.S. freeskiers and snowboarders hoping to reach the Winter Olympics […]
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