More than 200 competitors are expected at the four-day Tahoe Tennis Classic in July. Now in its 34th year, the July 27-30 all-doubles tournament is introducing a 6.0 category for men and women. The 14 divisions are mostly are based on ability level, with two related to the combined age of players. The tournament consists […]
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By Peter Fimrite, San Francisco Chronicle Winter is horning in on summer in the California mountains, where a stubborn blanket of snow is preventing several high-country camps from opening just as swarms of seasonal sojourners are itching to head for the hills. Summer officially begins Wednesday, but the historic storms that rolled through this winter […]
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Lake Tahoe Windjammers Yacht Club’s annual sailing skills clinic will be June 24. It is for any experience level. Registration starts at 8:30am, with instruction beginning at 9am. It will be at the group’s clubhouse in the Tahoe Keys Marina in South Lake Tahoe. Lunch will be provided. On the water instruction will be in […]
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By Bailey Schulz, Las Vegas Review-Journal After struggling during the Great Recession, boat sales are surging again in the U.S. and Nevada. Recently released data from the National Marine Manufacturers Association and its 2016 recreational boating statistical abstract said the $36 billion U.S. boating industry is at a post-recession high. “The industry has been growing […]
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By Dan White, Outside The Pacific Crest Trail doles out hazards in cruel ways. Thousands of hikers on the 2,650-mile trek face perils including rattlesnakes, exposure, corneal flash burns from snow glare, and heatstroke. But 2017 is shaping up to be one of the most frightening years in the national scenic trail’s history, thanks to […]
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By Sammy Caiola, Sacramento Bee Last winter’s Sierra snowpack is melting fast in the summer sun, and backcountry streams are running high. Thirsty hikers may be tempted to gulp from the alpine springs, but experts say look out – the clear mountain water could be full of microscopic organisms just waiting to wreak havoc […]
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By Emily Harrington, Moonshine Ink Being an “adventurer” used to mean something different. It was a solitary act; something people did to get away from normal life where they could find meaning away from the modern world of technology, money, fame, and ego. Or rather, that was the intrinsic definition we once gave to the […]
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An Asian clam control project will start this month at Sand Harbor. The goal is to treat a small, isolated population of Asian clams at Sand Harbor before they spread to an unmanageable level. Treatment will be accomplished by covering approximately 4 acres of the lake bottom near the boat ramp with thin rubber barriers. […]
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Placer County is using $250,000 in transient occupancy tax funds to support the design and construction of the Martis Valley Trail. It will be a 9-mile long, 10-foot-wide paved multipurpose trail connecting Northstar Village with the town of Truckee and ultimately Lake Tahoe. The total cost of the Martis Valley Trail is estimated to be […]
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By Scott Smith and Hallie Golden, AP Massive waterfalls in Yosemite National Park and rivers raging in mountains throughout the western United States are thundering with greater force than they have for years – and proving deadly as warm weather melts the deepest mountain snowpack in recent memory. Record snowfall on towering Western peaks this […]
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