By Kathryn Reed Peak 9441 is listed on maps just like that, with no other name. Mike Shreve is on a mission to name the Desolation Wilderness peak Mount Ryan after his son who died in 2003. In 1992, when the South Lake Tahoe father and son were on a Boy Scout backpacking trip, Ryan […]
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Storms erase “Sierra cement” phrase from people’s vocabulary. Here is the ski report from Curtis Fong, the Guy from Tahoe.
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By U.S. Ski Team GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany -– Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Grange ignored rapidly deteriorating course conditions Sunday to convert a first run lead into the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships slalom gold medal. World Champs rookie Nolan Kasper of Warren, Vt., was 15th and giant slalom gold medalist Ted Ligety of Park City 19th as the […]
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By Guy Clifton, Reno Gazette-Journal The Nevada Department of Wildlife, looking for ways to help fund programs and match federal grants, is proposing the establishment of a “gift account” that would let people and organizations donate directly to the department rather than have the money funnel through the state’s general fund. The program would also […]
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By Kathryn Reed What a difference a week makes. Last Sunday the trek to Angora Ridge was all about the claws on our snowshoes. Today it would likely be about making first tracks or hoping a snowmobiler got there first. It’s a climb, no doubt about that. But the views – oh, they are worth […]
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By Frank X. Mullen Jr., Reno Gazette-Journal There are now two separate classic car auctions scheduled in August in conjunction with the Hot August Nights event. Silver Auctions, which has handled the event’s auction for 21 years, will hold an auction the first week of August in the Truckee Meadows, when Hot August Nights is […]
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The National Weather Service in Reno released snow totals at 11:30am Saturday for the latest storm. Here are some of those numbers for the past 24 hours: • Alpine Meadows — 20 inches • Carson City — 5 inches • Donner Summit — 20 inches • Gardnerville — 13 inches • Heavenly Valley — 30 […]
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By Freddy Perryman, U.S. Ski Team MINSK, Belarus -– Last season’s Rookie of the Year Ashley Caldwell of Charleston, S.C., rebounded from her injury last week to finish second in the aerials World Cup Saturday in Minsk. It was the second podium of her young career. Hometown hero Anton Kushnir of Belarus won the men’s […]
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All this epic snow and so many locals will be turned away because of blackout dates on season passes. Here is the ski report from Curtis Fong, the Guy from Tahoe.
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It’s going to be over this morning. The winter storm warning, that is, not the snow falling from the sky. With the National Weather Service in Reno lifting the warning as of 9am, it means the brunt of the storm has passed. Still, though, meteorologists are saying there is an 80 percent chance of snow […]
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