By Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times Conservation groups, aiming to end California’s dwindling fur trade, filed a lawsuit Wednesday that would force state wildlife authorities to raise license fees to levels required by law to cover the full costs of regulating the trapping, killing and skinning of wild animals. That would drive the fees […]
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The Incline Village Championship Golf Course has retained its designation as a certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary through the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program for Golf Courses, an Audubon International program. Participation is designed to help course personnel plan, organize, implement, and document a comprehensive environmental management program and receive recognition for their efforts. To reach certification, […]
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Lake Tahoe is going from cool to cold. While the calendar says fall will arrive next week, the forecast is more like winter. “Most of next week will be on the cool side, and there is a chance for showers and some mountain snow during the second half of the week,” the National Weather Service […]
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Beginning Sept. 18, the El Dorado Beach boat ramp at Lakeview Commons will be closed Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. It will remain open Thursday-Sunday. The hours will be 8am-6pm, with the last launch at 4:30pm. The last day of boat ramp operations will be Oct. 1. The maximum boat length is 23 feet. The boat […]
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By Nick Ward When it comes to getting big for sports like football, is muscle over movement developing players in the right way? What can we learn for our gym sessions from the science of strength training? Another high school sports season is under way around the country. At times, body image seems to be […]
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By Kathryn Reed TAHOE CITY – Something about meadows is mesmerizing. These vast grassy areas seem to appear out of nowhere. Such a contrast to all the conifers that dominate Tahoe hikes. Page Meadow was not a disappointment; especially considering I had heard so much about this North Shore area that is part of the […]
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By Aaron Gulley, Outside Bikepacking used to be a fringe activity. These days, it’s about as commonplace as sidewall tears in the rocky desert. There are drop-bar and flat-bar bikes built expressly for it, videos about it, and it’s even popping up in the New York Times. And, unlike a decade ago, when only a few […]
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Diamond Peak and Olympic champion Sage Kotsenburg will be featured in Snowboarder magazine’s “Pepper” movie. Last spring, a crew of riders were at the Incline Village ski resort to film shoot for the soon-to-be-released feature-length movie. With the sun setting over Lake Tahoe in the background, slopestyle Olympic gold medalist Kotsenburg and friends Chris Grenier, […]
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By Katelyn Stark, KTXL-TV Bears have been ransacking and ripping apart cars recently at a South Shore trailhead, according to the U.S. Forest Service. Photographs posted by Desolation Wilderness volunteer ranger Charlie McCarthy show the backseat windows of three cars bent and torn from their frames. One car’s interior appears to have been mauled, large […]
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By Tony Berendsen I’ve been married to a wonderful woman – Jackie — for 45 years this September. She is not the geeky one in the family. I hold that distinction. For our 25th anniversary I booked a Sky and Telescope Astronomy Tour on the Holland America Ryndam to see a total solar eclipse off […]
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