Ski report: Could be windy later today
Time to do a snow dance to make sure the storm headed this way arrives mid-week as scheduled. Here is the ski report from Curtis Fong, the Guy from Tahoe.
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Death by GPS in the desert
By Tom Knudson, Sacramento Bee Five harrowing days after becoming stuck on a remote backcountry road in Death Valley National Park in August 2009, Alicia Sanchez lay down next to her Jeep Cherokee and prepared to die. Then she heard a voice. “I called as I approached, asking if she was okay,” wrote Ranger Amber […]
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Expedition: Kirkwood cranks it up a gear for riders
By Jessie Marchesseau KIRKWOOD — It is the day after a powder day, another blue bird day at Kirkwood. The sun is shining and not a cloud in the sky. No lift lines in sight and plenty of fresh tracks still to be had. Untracked snow can often be found here for days after a […]
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U.S. women sweep halfpipe at Winter Dew
By Lindsey Sine, U.S. Ski Team OGDEN, Utah o– Brita Sigourney of Carmel, Devin Logan of Dover, Vt., and Jen Hudak of Salt Lake City went one, two, three for a U.S. women’s sweep of the halfpipe skiing podium at the Winter Dew Tour on Saturday at Snowbasin in Ogden. Reno’s David Wise led for […]
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Tahoe area athletes don’t make podium in snowboardcross
By Lindsey Sine, U.S. Snowboarding PARK CITY -– Lindsey Jacobellis of Stratton Mountain, Vt., and home mountain rider Jonathan Cheever of Saugus, Mass., took charge of a technical snowboardcross course Saturday, landing a pair of U.S. Championship titles at the Sprint U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix at Park City’s Canyons Resort. Cheever and Jacobellis were presented […]
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Bahrke 8th in aerials in Moscow
By Freddy Perryman, U.S. Ski Team MOSCOW -– Olympic veteran Emily Cook of Belmont, Mass., returned to the scene of her only previous World Cup win using experience and strategy to win again Saturday in downtown Moscow. Scotty Bahrke of Tahoe City led the U.S. men in eighth as World Championship bronze medalist Anton Kushnir […]
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Ski report: Windy this afternoon
Bring the sun screen and an extra layer. The wind is likely to pick up this afternoon. Here is the ski report from Curtis Fong, the Guy from Tahoe.
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Ganong breaks hand hitting gate
By U.S. Ski Racing GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany — Erik Guay is the World Champion. Once again Canada has taken the Worlds downhill title from under the noses of the Europeans. In 2009 it was John Kucera winning a difficult test at Val d’Isere. This time it was Guay with an early run down a decidedly changed […]
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South Tahoe college being turned into winter mecca
Snow was starting to cover the parking lot Friday afternoon near the library at Lake Tahoe Community College. That’s not unusual in February. But not a cloud was in the sky. Crews from On Course Events were creating the rail jam apparatus for today’s Winter Expo at the South Lake Tahoe campus. The inaugural expo […]
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Frostbite can sneak up on winter enthusiasts
By Chuck Myers, McClatchy Tribune Its typical consequences aren’t nearly as severe for Sierra enthusiasts as those of the avalanche or blizzard, but frostbite is an ever-present danger of the snow season. Frostbite’s symptoms may be subtle at first: a slightly painful, prickly or itching sensation; skin that turns red, white, pale or grayish-yellow; numbness; […]
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