The El Dorado County Department of Transportation and El Dorado County Sheriff’s Department are applying to the California Department of Parks and Recreation, Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Division for the 2010-11 grants program for funding of projects on the Rubicon Trail. The grants applications will be posted on the OHMVR website on March 8. To […]
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Better get out there ahead of the storm. Here is the ski report from Curtis Fong, the Guy from Tahoe.
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Fill up the gas tank on the snowblower because the white stuff is coming back. The National Weather Service in Reno has issued a winter storm watch for the Lake Tahoe Basin from Thursday afternoon through late Friday night. Forecasters are calling for moderate to heavy snow Thursday evening through late Friday night, with the […]
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By Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee Buried in the Obama administration’s $3.7 trillion federal budget proposal is a gem for the Sacramento region. It would provide $2.7 million for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to continue managing lands in the footprint of the long-dormant Auburn dam project. The money is more than double this year’s funding. […]
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Adaptive Action Sports hosting disabled military personnel and veterans at a three-day “Pipeline Learn to Ride and Race” Feb. 24-26 at Sierra-at-Tahoe. The goal is to develop their snowboarding skills. The camp, built on the framework of past successful AAS camps, is intended as the first in a series of AAS snowboard camps to be […]
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By Susan Carpenter, Los Angeles Times When it comes to water management, California Assemblyman Jose Solorio focuses on three C’s: capture, conservation and conveyance. Of those, the state has been most successful with conservation, Solorio says, but it hasn’t been nearly as adept at capturing rain and snowfall and conveying it to where it needs […]
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By Dan Hinxman, Reno Gazette-Journal Alpine skier Nicole Brill should be swooshing in silence down a Slovakian slope today. She knows it’s loud when her skis get going fast. Deaf since she was about 1, hearing aids give her the ability to pick up sounds. She combines the aids and her partial ability to read […]
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Cold and sunny with lots of snow on the slopes throughout Lake Tahoe. Here is the ski report from Curtis Fong, the Guy from Tahoe.
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By Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee California wildlife officials seek public comments on a proposal to add the mountain yellow-legged frog to the state endangered species list. The request comes in response to a petition last year by the Center for Biological Diversity. A similar petition under the federal Endangered Species Act resulted in the species […]
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Presidential seal of approval for today being a great day on the slopes. Here is the ski report from Curtis Fong, the Guy from Tahoe.
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