Seven weeks and one day — that’s when Heavenly anticipates riders will be schussing through the white stuff to begin the 2009-10 ski season. Snow fell on Mount Rose, the top of Kingsbury Grade and at Kirkwood Tuesday night. More is forecast for this weekend. Resorts willing to predict opening dates this far out are: […]
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The Boys & Girls Club of Lake Tahoe Golf Tournament is Oct. 12 at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course, Stateline. Every dime of every $195 entry fee goes directly to the Boys & Girls Club to continue its work with local kids since Edgewood Tahoe has donated the course. The player fee has also been reduced […]
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The U.S. Forest Service will host a public meeting Oct. 6 to describe upcoming prescribed fire operations in the Round Hill area. The meeting will be at Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection District Station 3, 193 Elks Point Drive, Zephyr Cove from 6-7pm. The Forest Service plans to conduct prescribed fire operations on 79 acres bounded […]
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Sean Meissner of Sisters, Ore., is familiar with the Lake Tahoe Marathon race course, having won the event’s Tahoe Triple (three marathons in three days) four times in the last few years. Meissner proved he could also win gold in the marathon division, taking first this year with a time of 2:58:02. It was hometown […]
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By Alan McPhee, Daily News And now for something entirely different. The “Trail Rated” badge on the side of every Jeep Wrangler 4×4 is a guarantee that it already meets the challenge of the Rubicon Trail, the legendary stagecoach route that climbs up over the Sierras from Georgetown, California to Lake Tahoe. It’s the Holy […]
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SOS Glenshire is trying to raise $65,000 so the California Department of Fish & Game will study the Verdi subunit of the Loyalton-Truckee deer herd. The group advocates responsible development that doesn’t hinder the migration corridor of wildlife in the area. The deer tend to summer in the Martis Valley and winter near Verdi. The […]
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By Ann Westling, US Forest Service NEVADA CITY – Several projects in the Tahoe National Forest will receive funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Funded projects include road maintenance and watershed restoration; fuel reduction and forest health; reclamation of abandoned mine features; and recreation facility and trail maintenance stated Forest Supervisor Tom […]
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Outdoor Intervention Program in Douglas County has five new tandem kayaks thanks to Rick and Brenda Rogers, who own Sierra Sports Rental in Zephyr Cove. The program, now in its 29th year, is run by the county’s juvenile probation department. The wilderness program works with at-risk youths, students in the Gang Resistance Education and Training […]
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By USFS staff The U.S. Forest Service is restoring aspens at Kiva Point in South Lake Tahoe through the fall. The project area is near the lakefront behind the Taylor Creek Visitor Center and Tallac Historic Site. The Forest Service asks the public to stay on the trails or beach while this project is under […]
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Associated Press RENO — Thousands of Nevada hunters are getting excited as the hunting season looms for the state’s most popular game bird: the chukar (chuck-ur). Nevada Department of Wildlife officials said the 2009-10 chukar season should be good for most of the state partly because of a wet spring that led to higher chick […]
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