By Jim Sloan The pika is a small, furry mammal that lives in the harshest of places — in mountainous rocky areas where the snow is deep, the air is cold, and conditions are unforgiving. The small-eared member of the rabbit family doesn’t even hibernate, choosing instead to burrow into hay piles it builds beneath […]
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By Jennifer Calfas, Time From a 17-year-old snowboarding star to a gold-medal-hungry women’s ice hockey team, Team USA’s athletes competing in the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea, are looking to make a mark. The official roster for Team USA will not be finalized until weeks before the 2018 Winter Olympics start Feb. […]
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By Adam Jensen Predicting snowfall is a guessing game each winter. A spring equivalent is guessing how many yellow jackets will invade the Sierra. Cold and dry conditions in the winter of 2015-16 likely contributed to a boom in 2016. While the winter of 2016-17 knocked down populations at higher elevations in 2017, it led […]
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By Tahoe Resource Conservation District After four years of treatment, Emerald Bay remains free of aquatic invasive plants. In 2010, the Tahoe Resource Conservation District, in collaboration with California State Parks and the Lake Tahoe Aquatic Invasive Species Program, began treating 6 acres of Emerald Bay to remove Eurasian watermilfoil, an invasive plant that alters […]
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By Ryan Buell, Moonshine Ink A lot of ink (and the digital equivalent) has been used to write about skiing in Tahoe. Obviously — more resorts than you can count on both hands, more than 100 lifts, world class backcountry offerings, The Palisades. It needs no repeating. And that’s why we want to devote some […]
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By Alex Frew McMillan, The Street The Winter Olympics are fast approaching. And with the next two installments happening in Asia, the center of the ice-and-snow world is shifting ever so slightly to the East. South Korea hosts the games in February 2018, now just two months away, in and around the resort of PyeongChang. […]
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By Rick Sylvester, Moonshine Ink The year 2017 marked the 40th anniversary of James Bond’s “The Spy Who Loved Me.” One local historian and pundit opined the stunt I performed doubling for Roger Moore playing James Bond as part of the opening pre-credit sequence represented a “game changer.” Though the movie was panned, it was […]
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By Becky Wright, Tahoe Quarterly Kyle Smaine spent the better part of last season “crutching [his] way through the seemingly endless snowbanks” in his native South Lake Tahoe. Now, with a surgically repaired anterior cruciate ligament and meniscus, the Sierra-at-Tahoe halfpipe skier feels healthy and motivated to make a run at the 2018 Olympic Winter […]
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U.S. Ski & Snowboard and Squaw Valley entered a five-year agreement designating the resort as an official training site of the U.S. ski and snowboard team. Squaw Valley joins Mammoth Mountain, Deer Valley in Utah, Copper Mountain in Colorado and Timberline Lodge in Oregon as one of only five official training sites across the country. […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal Winter is off to a slow start, especially in the Lake Tahoe Basin, with snow totals well below normal for late December. But a recent shot of snow and mild holiday forecast spell good news for conditions at Sierra Nevada resorts. In the Tahoe Basin the snowpack is just 35 percent […]
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