Opening ceremonies for the 30th annual North Shore Winterfest is tonight at 6:30 at Squaw Valley with a torchlight parade, laser show and fireworks. Here is the ski report from Curtis Fong, the Guy from Tahoe.
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By Reno Gazette-Journal Incline’s Grace Dolan on Tuesday repeated the feat she accomplished last year, winning a state skiing championship. The junior Dolan claimed the Tahoe Basin League’s state slalom title by nine-hundredths of a second at Sierra-at-Tahoe to secure the overall championship, after she won the giant slalom title on Monday. Dolan won the […]
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By Rachel Levin, New York Times Bumping along a freshly plowed road in Lake Tahoe, I felt oddly unburdened. No skis were locked on top of my car, no clunky boots rattled in the trunk. After more than a decade of ski trips to the region, I kept feeling as if I were missing something. […]
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By Jessie Marchesseau KIRKWOOD — Last weekend’s Subaru North American Freeskiing Championships was quintessential Kirkwood. Postponed two days due to a gnarly storm, Day 1 boasted blue skies, 4 feet of fresh powder and the steep, rocky, forbidden terrain of the Cirque. Freeskiers traveled from as far away as New Zealand, Chile, Sweden and France […]
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Snow fell overnight, with about 3 inches in South Lake Tahoe to shovel. Here is the ski report from Curtis Fong, the Guy from Tahoe.
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By Freddy Perryman, U.S. Ski Team GRINDELWALD, Switzerland -– X Games champion John Teller of Mammoth Lakes just missed the podium, finishing fourth in Thursday’s World Cup skicross race in Grindelwald. World Championship bronze medalist Andreas Matt of Austria topped the men’s field, while Norway’s Marte Hoeie Gjefsen won the women’s race. Teller, who qualified […]
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By Gordon Hamilton, Vancouver Sun Climate change is expected to drive lodgepole pine, the backbone of the central Interior forest industry, from most of its range in B.C. by 2080, says a study by researchers at the University of B.C. and Oregon State University. The study, to be published in the journal Climate Change, measures […]
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It’s going to be soggy on the slopes of Lake Tahoe today. Here is the ski report from Curtis Fong, the Guy from Tahoe.
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A winter weather advisory in effect from midnight tonight to noon Wednesday. The National Weather Service in Reno is calling for snow to begin late tonight near the Sierra crest and spread into the Lake Tahoe Basin early Wednesday morning. Expect 6 to 12 inches above 7,000 feet, with 2 to 6 inches at lake […]
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El Dorado County is having a workshop on Yellow Starthistle Control and Preventing the Spread of Invasive Weeds on March 11 from 1:30-3pm. The meeting is in the Planning Commission Room – Building C, El Dorado County Administrative Offices, 2850 Fairlane Court, Placerville. Registration for this workshop is recommended. Register online or contact Nancy Starr […]
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