By John Meyer, Denver Post BRECKENRIDGE — Looking down a 602-foot superpipe with walls 22 feet high apparently doesn’t faze Shaun White, but a movie put a good scare into him this month. The action sports superstar from San Diego came down with a bad head cold two weeks ago on a flight from Beijing […]
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Hazardous conditions are keeping Meyers Landfill site off Pioneer Trail near South Lake Tahoe off-limits to snowmobilers, snowshoers, cross country skiers, mountain bikers, off-highway vehicle users and other recreationists. Construction at the site will continue next summer. The site has been winterized, but safety hazards remain, including steep, irregular slopes with a slippery plastic cover, […]
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By John Blackstone, CBS News A U.N. conference on climate change ended Sunday without a major deal to cut toxic emissions. No country emits more carbon dioxide than China — a byproduct of its booming economy. And, as CBS News correspondent John Blackstone reports, those Chinese emissions are having a big impact in the U.S. […]
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Groups like the Carson Valley Trails Association are making trail access a reality in Douglas County. Volunteers contributed more than 4,000 hours building trails and installing signs and kiosks, mostly on the Genoa Trails Project, which now boasts 16 miles of new trail almost ready to open in the spring. When complete, the Discovery Trail […]
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Sugar Bowl’s Philanthropy Day is Jan. 22 — benefiting Tahoe SAFE Alliance. Sugar Bowl will donate the proceeds from 500 tickets priced at $35 to support programs that help to reduce the incidence and trauma of domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse in North Lake Tahoe and Truckee. The ticket is good Jan. 22-26. […]
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Tahoe Center for Orthopedics’ and U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team physicians Terrence Orr and Jonathan Finnoff will give a lecture focusing on ski and snowboard injury prevention and treatment options on Jan. 5 from 6-7pm at Lake Tahoe Community College (One College Avenue, South Lake Tahoe). The event is free. In addition to ski and […]
Read moreThe Tahoe Science Consortium and Sierra Nevada College will host the 2012 Tahoe Science Conference May 22-24 on at Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village. The theme of the conference will be “Environmental Restoration in a Changing Climate”. Lake Tahoe and many other high alpine lakes around the world are being increasingly stressed by climatic […]
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By Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee La Niña is back in control of California’s weather, and like last winter, her temper seems to be flaring. First it was strafing November winds. Then persistent December frost. Now half the state is dry – not a drop of rain in Sacramento this month, and Lake Tahoe ski resorts […]
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By Kirk Johnson, New York Times DENVER — Oh say, can you see across the Grand Canyon? Not as well as you used to on some days. A dust storm that covered Phoenix in July dramatically attested to Western air quality concerns. The question of how clean the air is in the American West has […]
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Tahoe Valley Elementary School students helped set a Guinness World Record then they were part of a jumping jack contest in October. Put on by National Geographic Kids between 3pm Oct. 11 and 3pm Oct. 12, 300,265 jumpers all over the world took part in the event. The old record for the most number of […]
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