By Kathryn Reed Heading into Thanksgiving weekend, skiers and resort operators definitely have something to be thankful for. There is plenty of snow to gobble up. Heavenly, Squaw and Northstar opened this weekend. Boreal is open, too. Kirkwood is looking for a Wednesday start day, which is also a possibility for Sierra-at-Tahoe. Other resorts are […]
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By Kathryn Reed “The snow was truly epic.” That’s how season passholder Michael Brown of Stateline described opening day at Heavenly Mountain Resort. He wasn’t at the gondola in time to get “first chair” – he had to settle for the second car. But he beat the snowboarders in front of him who had to […]
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The wind has subsided and Heavenly has made the decision — it’s opening today. Squaw Valley is also calling this the first day of the season, too. About a foot of snow fell at lake level on the South Shore overnight. Heavenly is reporting 18 inches of freshies. Squaw is reporting 10-12 inches of new […]
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Beginning Nov. 22, the North Tahoe Regional Park and its facilities will be open from 7am-5pm. All vehicles must be removed from the park before 5pm. Grooming of the trails and opening of the sled hill will begin when conditions allow. More information can be found on the District’s Park Facilities website and then navigating […]
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Squaw Valley is slated to open for skiing and riding on Nov. 20 with fresh snow from a system approaching Lake Tahoe. The storm is predicted to deliver up to 6 feet to the Sierra at the higher elevations. Lake Tahoe has not seen a November snowstorm this large in the past six years. Slopes […]
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Updated Nov. 19 at 9:12am. Curtis Fong, the Guy from Tahoe, is back for the winter delivering daily ski reports each morning to readers of Lake Tahoe News. Yes, it’s still fall — but in Tahoe the calendar means very little when it comes to weather and outdoor fun. Heavenly opens Saturday if the winds […]
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By Peter Shelton, Watch Newspapers It works every time. The season’s new ski movie comes to town in November just as snow is starting to fly, and all those dreams and memories built up over the summer come rushing out like a wind between the theater seats and the screen. It happened last weekend in […]
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A New York native has been hired to run the day-to-day operations of Northstar-at-Tahoe. Bill Rock, 42, is leaving his post as president and chief operations officer at Showshoe Mountain Resort in West Virginia to be COO of the Truckee resort that was just acquired by Vail Resorts. Showshoe is an Intrawest property. At Northstar, […]
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By Ed Fletcher, Sacramento Bee Barrett Burghart can’t cast thunderbolts or heal the Earth and doesn’t wear a frilly dress. But he does play Mother Nature. Where nature leaves off, Burghart and his staff fill in the gap, blanketing Heavenly Ski Resort with acres of man-made snow. Boasting the largest snow-making operation on the West […]
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By Frank X. Mullen Jr., Reno Gazette-Journal Federal land managers this week are scheduled to begin the first of three wild horse roundups aimed at reducing the number of mustangs in Northern Nevada. The Bureau of Land Management on Wednesday plans to gather and remove about 94 “excess” wild horses from a site south of […]
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