It’s a gorgeous day in Lake Tahoe. With many Thanksgiving travelers headed home, the slopes are apt to be less crowded than Saturday. The recent dump has Sierra-at-Tahoe and Kirkwood Mountain Resort looking at Dec. 4 to open. Read the ski report from Curtis Fong, the Guy from Tahoe, to know what conditions are like today.
Powder is the word of the morning at Lake Tahoe ski resorts. With a few inches falling at lake level Friday afternoon-evening, it means several inches dropped higher up. Wind could be a problem today, but otherwise it’s all about the powder. The highs at the lake will be in the 30s, so it will be super cold on the mountain. For all the details, click on the ski report brought to Lake Tahoe News by Curtis Fong, the Guy from Tahoe.
The South Tahoe Wrestling Club will have sign ups and a parent meeting Dec. 1 at 6:30pm.
Signups and practices continue Dec. 3 from 6:30-8pm.
The sign ups and practices will be at South Tahoe Middle School (Activity room attached to Old Gym near the Multipurpose room) on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
The wrestling season is from December through March and costs $90 per year. Bring a copy of your child’s birth certificate at sign-ups. Membership fee includes; 1. Secondary insurance coverage that has a deductible, 2. membership to USA Wrestling, Nevada Wrestling and Sierra Wrestling Associations, 3. SWA a T-shirt, 4. facility use and 5. experienced coaching.
Where possible, parental help is expected.
Wrestling practice clothing is old T-shirts, gym shorts and athletic shoes. Bring a desire to work hard in one of the oldest sports in history.
Call David Borges at (530) 544.5800 for more information.
It could be a powder afternoon on the slopes in and around Lake Tahoe. Check out the ski report to find out what the conditions are like this morning. All that information is brought to Lake Tahoe News by Curtis Fong, the Guy from Tahoe.
The following is this morning’s report from the Weather Channel:
A winter weather advisory for snow remains in effect from noon today to midnight PST tonight.
* Timing: snow will spread over the lake tahoe area late this morning and intensify this afternoon. the heaviest snows will fall between 2-9pm.
* Total snow accumulations: 4 to 6 inches at lake level with 6 to 10 inches above 7000 feet.
* Snow levels: snow levels will start around 6,000 feet this morning then quickly fall to all valley floors by noon.
* Impacts: accumulating snows will create slick roads and hazardous driving conditions this afternoon and evening.
Precautionary/preparedness actions:
Snow is expected to pose an inconvenience to travelers. roads will become slick and hazardous,with snow and ice first developing on bridges and overpasses. motorists should slow down and use caution.
By Bill O’Driscoll, Reno Gazette-Journal
Several ski and snowboard makers scattered around the Truckee Meadows are growing their business on the strength of locals in the market for locally made products.
Love for the sport and a lack of corporate roadblocks to experimentation drive them, they said. And, besides, what better backdrop for their business than Lake Tahoe and the Sierra?
“They are not the highest mountains in the world, but they’ve always been at the forefront of progression in skiing,” Luke Jacobson, vice president and engineer at Moment Skis on Sutro Street, said.
Thanksgiving Day brings more open terrain at Heavenly. Ski hard — it will mean guilt-free second helpings later today. Here is the ski report for this Thanksgiving Day brought to you by Curtis Fong, the Guy from Tahoe.
A four passenger sleigh has been added to the fleet at Borges Sleighrides at Stateline.
The longtime family-run operation is also going to be offering rides at Squaw Creek for the first time this winter.
The smaller sleigh is ideal for families and couples.
Sleigh rides are popular with newlyweds. Photo/Provided
“We have been getting brides and grooms scheduling weddings on our sleighrides,†Dwight Borges, who took over the day-to-day operation from his parents, told Lake Tahoe News. “The sleigh also has wheels in case we need the sleigh to go on the streets. We have been getting calls form carolers wanting to ride in a sleigh around their neighborhood.â€
The newest sleigh brings the number to six. Sleighs vary in size, with two to 20 people able to fit in one.
The 30- and 60-minute sleighrides during the day are usually available starting Thanksgiving weekend. Mother Nature has something to say about that each year.
Private and dinner rides are also offered.
The South Shore rides start on the north side of MontBleu casino in Stateline.
For more information, call (530) 580.8439.
Skiers in the greater Lake Tahoe area have another area to choose starting today — Sugar Bowl is open. Read the ski report to find out all the details that Curtis Fong, the Guy From Tahoe, sees fit to print.
By Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee
If you think it’s interesting to creep through a forest – pistol at the ready – in pursuit of illegal marijuana growers, or to be in an armed, early morning raid of a suspected wildlife shooter’s home, you’re in for some thrills.
Producers of the hit reality television series “Deadliest Catch” are filming a new show featuring California game wardens and their increasingly difficult struggle to protect the state’s environment. Shot as wardens chase real crimes throughout Northern California, it’s due to air late next year on the National Geographic Channel.
The Truckee Ranger District has begun burning piles in the Alder Creek drainage. This pile burning project is one more step in the continuing work in the Alder Creek area to reduce fuel loading in the wildland urban interface.
Over the past five years the Truckee Ranger District has emphasized fuel reduction in this area using tools such as mechanical thinning to remove the fuel from the site, and mastication to reduce ladder fuels on site. The overall project area is from Hillside Drive down to Highway 89 north, within the Alder Creek drainage on National Forest system lands.
Burning will be completed in stages in order to facilitate smoke dispersal and limit smoke impacts to residences. Residences may notice smoke in the area at times. Smoke may settle into drainages during the evenings and mornings until daytime heating increases smoke dispersal.
Fuels management personnel work with the California Air Resources Board and the local air quality management districts to plan the pile burning so that smoke impacts to communities are minimized. Burning operations will be monitored by Forest Service personnel on a regular basis.
If you have any questions or concerns about the pile burning project, call Linda Ferguson at the Truckee Ranger District at (530) 587.3558.