By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Someplace National Winter Trails Day lived up to its purpose – a free, guided snowshoe or cross country trek, with introductions to the sports for those who are unfamiliar with them. In Tahoe, the North Shore event was canceled because of lack of snow and the South Shore event turned […]
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By USSA BAD KLEINKIRCHHEIM, Austria — Julia Mancuso of Squaw Valley stormed to second and led three Americans into the top 10 at the Audi FIS Alpine World Cup downhill in Bad Kleinkirchheim on Saturday. World Cup overall and downhill leader Lindsey Vonn of Vail survived a big mistake right out of the starting gate […]
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By Mary Pilon, New York Times HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Jimi Sitko gets up at 4 most mornings, works out two to four hours a day and can bench-press nearly twice his weight. He has a shaved head and a brightly colored tattoo on his left arm, and he can easily be mistaken for a Marine […]
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On Jan. 9, the U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit will begin aspen restoration work near the Pope/Baldwin Bike Path adjacent to Highway 89. A Forest Service contractor will use mechanical equipment to remove pine and fir trees from aspen stands. Most material will be hauled away. Some limbs may be piled outside […]
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By Jennifer M. Freedman, Bloomberg News Four years after Bruno Prior paid less than a dollar for an unprofitable ski resort in the Swiss Alps, the strength of the country’s currency has quashed the British entrepreneur’s dream of turning it around. The Swiss franc has risen 70 percent against the pound since August 2007, when […]
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By Andrew Zaleski, Grist Two days before New Year’s Eve, Jimmy Standley was in Lake Tahoe getting ready for the inaugural SnowGlobe Music Festival, three days of tunes, parties, afterparties — oh, and he had to sell some bikes, too. As head of business development for Solé Bicycles, Standley is one part of a five-man […]
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The swimming pool at the South Lake Tahoe Recreation Center is closed because of mechanical malfunction. It is not known when it will reopen. Call (530) 542.6056 for more information.
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By Marnie Hunter, CNN Lane Kommer should be skiing this week. Instead he postponed a trip to Colorado because the snow situation just isn’t looking good. “We’ve been keeping a close eye on the weather the last few weeks and keeping our fingers crossed, hoping for some good snow and it just got to the […]
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By Jason Blevins, ESPN.com Ski resorts are feuding with their Forest Service landlord over a water rights clause in updated ski area permitting regulations that keeps water rights tied to the land, not the resort operator. After intense lobbying — which included stern letters from a host of congressman and senators — last week the […]
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By Barbara Barte Osborn, Sacramento Bee In 1960, with the sports world poised to show up on their doorstep, organizers of the Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley grew increasingly nervous through an unusually dry January. “There was virtually no snow at Squaw Valley, and they brought in tribal snow-dancers and cloud-seeders,” said Mark McLaughlin, a […]
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