The annual Hike for Housing fundraiser to support South Lake Tahoe Habitat for Housing and Saint Joseph Community Land Trust is Sept. 21 from 9am-1pm at the Lam Watah Trail. Meet at 1 Elks Point Road in Round Hill. Registration is $25 per family or $15 for an individual. Register and park for free at […]
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The 2014 Rahlves’ Banzai Tour will stop at four Lake Tahoe resorts this winter. From Feb. 8 through March 16 the tour will be at Kirkwood Mountain Resort, Squaw Valley, Alpine Meadows, and finishing with the finals and super final at Sugar Bowl Resort. “There is no other race like this in the world,” Daron […]
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One of the four men who came up with the concept of the modern triathlon will be speaking Thursday night in Tahoe City. Dan Hendrickson will be talking Sept. 19 at 6:30pm at the Gatekeeper’s Museum. A former Navy Seal, Hendrickson was one of four friends who originally came up with the idea of the […]
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Tahoe Tri Club has teamed with South Lake Tahoe to host three family races in a series called Run Through the Holidays. The three races will be themed to match each of the holidays coming up this fall. The events will infuse fitness and fun into what can often be a stressful time of year. […]
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By Kathryn Reed TAHOE CITY – A thick overgrown forest with logging roads that became gullies during the wet season that would then carry sediment into Ward Creek and Lake Tahoe. That was what these 179 acres near Tahoe City were like in the early 1980s when the McClatchy family deeded the property to California […]
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By Tyler Graham, Bloomberg Instead of going to a gym, Erwan Le Corre climbs trees and shoulders heavy logs. And on your next vacation, he wants you to join him. Le Corre’s Santa Fe, N.N.–based MovNat is one of a handful of fitness outfitters offering getaways centered on the notion that our Stone Age genes […]
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By Sam McManis, Sacramento Bee Atop Wolf Ridge on a clear day in the Marin Headlands several years ago, Tom Courtney paused to take in the view. Hikers always stop there, mostly to gawk at the Pacific Ocean to the west and Mount Tamalpais to the north, but also to catch their breath after a […]
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By Tammy Webber, AP CHICAGO — The U.S. Department of Agriculture and Coca-Cola signed a five-year agreement Friday to restore watersheds that have been damaged or altered by development, wildfires and agriculture as part of an initiative to slow runoff and replenish groundwater on federal lands. Such efforts are increasingly important to corporations and farmers […]
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By Kirk Johnson, New York Times LA PUSH, Wash. — Thrusting out into the Pacific Ocean, Olympic National Park can feel like a lost world, with its verdant forests, violent surf and cloud-shrouded peaks. But to the four women who hiked down to the sand one recent afternoon, there was an added element of strangeness: […]
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Bear hunting season in Nevada begins Sunday and goes through Dec. 31. Twenty bears can be killed in that time period per state regulations. This is the third year Nevada has allowed bear hunting. When the season is over the Nevada Wildlife Commission plans to analyze how the hunts have gone. Fourteen bears were killed […]
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