By Taylor Morris, ESPN Sixteen-year-old phenom Torin Yater-Wallace double-corked his way to a first place finish at Saturday’s Dew Tour men’s ski superpipe finals in Killington, Vt. Yater-Wallace held a comfortable lead through the first set of runs with his first-run score of 90.25, until Wallace himself bested the score, muscling two doubles (a cork […]
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The white stuff on the ground and in the trees throughout the Lake Tahoe Basin is snow — just in case people forgot what it looked like. The sounds and sights of winter finally arrived Jan. 21. Snowmobiles were on city streets, private and public snowplows were doing a brisk business, bus stops had snowboarders […]
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By Neela Banerjee, Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — A flash point has emerged in American science education that echoes the battle over evolution, as scientists and educators report mounting resistance to the study of man-made climate change in middle and high schools. Although scientific evidence increasingly shows that fossil fuel consumption has caused the climate […]
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By Martha Bellisle, Reno Gazette-Journal The civil lawsuit filed by a former Harrah’s Lake Tahoe casino host claiming Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger raped her while he was visiting Lake Tahoe for a celebrity golf tournament in 2008 has been resolved. But neither side will say whether the Super Bowl star paid Andrea McNulty any […]
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California State Park interpretive specialist Lindsay Harbison will be leading a snowshoe through history hike along Lake Tahoe’s West Shore at Ed Z’Berg Sugar Pine Point State Park on Jan. 28. This easy tour explores the parks’ lakefront and the grounds of the historic Hellman-Ehrman estate. Learn about the natural environment that attracted Tahoe’s earliest […]
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By Kris Terrian What sounds better after a long powder day: icing your knees or hopping in the hot tub? The majority of skiers and snowboarders would prefer the hot tub. And though this sounds like the perfect place to get warm, meet up with your buds and kick back and relax, the hot water […]
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By U.S. Snowboarding News Bureau VEYSONNAZ, Switzerland — Lindsey Jacobellis of Stratton Mountain, Vt., bumped her “most dominant snowboardcross rider in the world” moniker one more notch Thursday with the 24th World Cup SBX victory of her career. Teammate and fellow X Games gold medalist Nate Holland of Squaw Valley was second in the men’s […]
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Tahoe Cross Country Ski Area and Alpenglow Sports present Viva The Backcountry Film Festival benefiting the Tahoe Cross Country Ski Education Association. The Winter Wildlands Alliance Backcountry Film Festival made its world premiere 11-11-11. This is a celebration of the winter experience. The seventh annual world tour of the Winter Wildlands Alliance Backcountry Film Festival […]
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By ESPN Action Sports SALT LAKE CITY — Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke died Thursday, nine days after crashing at the bottom of the superpipe during a training run in Utah. Burke, who lived near Whistler in British Columbia, was 29. She was injured Jan. 11 while training at a personal sponsor event at the […]
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By Carlos Alcalá, Sacramento Bee El Dorado County is adopting Fish Friendly Farming. The concept has nothing to do with trout farms or other aquaculture. It’s about growing farm crops and raising cattle in ways that keep surrounding streams and rivers clean. El Dorado County farmers, the local resource conservation districts and a Napa-based nonprofit […]
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