By AP STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. — If you’ve walked into a ski lodge the past few years, likely as not you’ve seen tables filled with gray-haired skiers wearing sweaters so old they’re back in style. That’s because the number of skiers on the far side of 50 — some on the very far side — […]
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Red Bull Megaslope will return to Kirkwood Mountain Resort in 2014, but this time as a full-blown competition. In spring 2013, professional skier Bobby Brown saw his dream slopestyle course come to life as Snow Park Technologies built a massive line featuring six oversized, custom features that he was able to ski in a single […]
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Updated: 8:45am Nov. 23 Heavenly and Northstar are opening today. Kirkwood is looking at opening Monday. Curtis Fong, the guy from Tahoe, has provided Lake Tahoe News with this ski report update Nov. 23 for Tahoe resorts.
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Opening day didn’t happen for Heavenly Mountain Resort today. Wind prevented anyone from getting on the Gondola, despite a couple dozen people braving the 20-something degree weather in hopes to getting on the mountain at 9am. William Rust of Marina and Steve Luiz of Hollister came up Thursday night in anticipation of starting the ski […]
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By Michelle Roberts, BBC Many children cannot run as fast as their parents could when they were young, a study of global fitness says. Experts say the work – being presented at the American Heart Association’s annual meeting – suggests children’s fitness levels may be declining. Researchers analyzed data spanning 46 years and involving more […]
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By Edward Ortiz, Sacramento Bee Scientists at NASA say they have identified a rare weather pattern that assures intense and potentially prolonged wet weather will strike California. The research findings are a crucial addition to weather forecasting tools and may go a long way to alerting officials to the possibility of floods, mudslides and levee […]
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By Elizabeth Preston, Nautilus Entomologist Richard Karban knows how to get sagebrush talking. To start the conversation, he poses as a grasshopper or a chewing beetle — he uses scissors to cut leaves on one of the shrubs. Lopping off the leaves entirely won’t fool the plants. So he makes many snips around the edges […]
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By Kathryn Reed While opening day at Heavenly is just two days from now, there may come a day when the South Shore resort is open year-round for recreation. Skiing starts this week, as does the comment period for the scoping for the environmental documents involving the expanded summer recreation. While much of the first […]
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U.S. Forest Service fuels management crews will begin prescribed fire operations off Marshall Trail near South Lake Tahoe and on the West Shore near Tahoma on Nov. 19. Weather and conditions permitting, crew will burn approximately 10 acres per day on the west side of Tahoma. Operations are expected to continue through the weekend. In […]
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The South Tahoe High School girls’ soccer team won state for the third time in four years. The Vikings defeated Pahrump Valley 3-2 on Nov. 16 to take home the trophy at Dayton High School. Brittany Hibberts, Ally King and Maia Bickert each scored in the championship game. South Tahoe finished the season 17-3-3, ending […]
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