By Mike Kessler, Outside The biannual gathering of the gear tribes is typically a magnanimous affair. Held each winter and summer in Salt Lake City’s 675,000-square-foot Salt Palace convention center, the Outdoor Retailer trade shows (OR for short) draw some 20,000 industry types—an assortment of hyperfit gear wonks who pal around, show off their wares, […]
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Crocuses are blooming in the basin. Robins are confused. Spring is the season according to the calendar. And snow is about to pile up. It must be Lake Tahoe in March. A winter weather advisory is in effect until 11am March 28. Wednesday’s commute is expected to be difficult – slick roads, blowing snow and […]
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By Reno Gazette-Journal Jerod Haase, who led South Tahoe High to a state basketball championship in 1992, was named the head coach at Alabama-Birmingham on Monday night. Haase, who was officially announced as UAB’s coach Tuesday afternoon, has worked under Roy Williams for the past 13 seasons at North Carolina and Kansas. “I want to […]
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The scientists at Tahoe Pipe Club have just completed the what they call most comprehensive field assessment of wet weather hydrologic connectivity of urban storm pipes in the Lake Tahoe Basin. This film is the result of this effort. “For the urban component of clarity loss, the most important issue is defining directly connected impervious […]
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By Tom and Cheryl Millham Robins are a species that migrate to Lake Tahoe in the early spring to nest and raise their young. Then, they leave in the fall, back down to the lower elevations. So, what is the problem? Well, in February and early March, as you will remember, the Lake Tahoe Basin […]
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By Kathryn Reed MEYERS – If it’s true getting a step in the door is the hardest part to realizing a dream, then that step may have literally been taken this month by the Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care board of directors based on where they conducted their meeting. They met in a house at the […]
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The Truckee Tahoe Airport is soaring to new heights with the inaugural Truckee Tahoe Air Fair & Family Festival in July. The last air shows at the airport were from 1974-96. On July 7, from 7am to 4pm there will be periodic fly-bys; large static aircraft displays; pilot docents; hot air balloons (weather permitting); free […]
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The largest eco-event in the North Lake Tahoe-Truckee area — the Tahoe Truckee Earth Day Festival — is April 21 from 11am to 5pm at the Village at Squaw Valley. This all-ages, community sponsored event gives participants an opportunity to learn about recycling and composting, alternative energy, sustainability, watershed and forest health, and reducing ecological […]
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Disabled Sports USA Far West, located at Alpine Meadows, hosts its weeklong Ability Celebration March 27-April 1. This annual event invites veterans disabled in Iraq and Afghanistan to participate in adapted skiing and snowboarding and celebrates the abilities of people with disabilities. As part of a week, 25 active-duty U.S. soldiers and marines disabled in […]
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By Kathryn Reed Prom, football games, hanging with friends, a diploma. In part, that’s what high school is all about. But in Lake Tahoe, where some of the world’s best skiers and snowboarders call home, they don’t have those high school memories because they were on the slopes more than they were in the classroom. […]
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