On June 4, more than 3,000 bicycling enthusiasts from all over the country will participate in the 26th annual America’s Most Beautiful Bike Ride around Lake Tahoe. This fun ride, is not a race. It is a fully supported bike tour that promotes the Lake Tahoe Bikeway project, the master plan to construct and inter-connect […]
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By Debbie Arrington, Sacramento Bee In the Sierra and other California mountain ranges, the big bloom is coming. But unlike the flourish of flowers that opened in March and April at lower elevations, mountain “spring” arrives in summer. So far, 2017 has been a spectacular wildflower year. As if celebrating the end of California’s epic […]
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National Trails Day, always on the first Saturday in June, allows organizations and agencies around the country to foster stewardship of trails and introduce people to volunteer trail work opportunities. Tahoe Area Mountain Biking Association, Tahoe Rim Trail Association and Biggest Little Trail Stewardship are joining together to host a large volunteer trail day on […]
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By Lawrence Lenhart, High Country News First things first: Coyote. When you read the word, how many syllables do you hear? Your answer, according to Dan Flores, author of “Coyote America,” may be “immediately diagnostic of a whole range of belief systems and values.” The ki-YOH-tee versus ki-yote divide is one of the best indicators […]
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The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit will resume work this week on the South Shore Hazardous Fuels Reduction and Healthy Forest Restoration project. Mechanical whole tree removal will take place near Fallen Leaf Campground along Fallen Leaf Road off Highway 89. This involves cutting the entire tree and moving it to the […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal Tahoe-area climber Adrian Ballinger on Saturday joined elite club of people who climbed to the top of Mount Everest without using supplemental oxygen. It was Ballinger’s seventh time to the top of the mountain and his first without using supplemental oxygen. He attempted a non-oxygen climb last year but suffered hypothermia […]
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By Todd Dewey, Las Vegas Review-Journal Add the NBA Finals MVP Award and the NBA draft to the growing list of off-field events bettors can wager on at Nevada sports books. The Nevada Gaming Control Board granted approval Wednesday to offer prop bets on the NBA draft, which will be June 22, and on the […]
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By Tony Berendsen He has been in our night sky long before we were walking the surface of the Earth. Moving among the fixed stars in a repetitive path every 29 years he was noticed by us and given the name Saturn by our ancestors. Saturn, the father of Jupiter, and a variety of mythological […]
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Several activities are planned in June for Wildfire Awareness Month in the Lake Tahoe Basin. Community events include: North Tahoe Fire Protection District’s 2nd annual Fire Safe Bar-B-Que on June 10 from 11am-3pm at 222 Fairway Drive in Tahoe City. For more information, contact Beth Kenna at 530.583.6911, ext. 714. South Lake Tahoe Fire Rescue’s […]
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By Lisa M. Krieger, Bay Area News Group When rocks get hot, they do what people do: shed a few layers. And the hottest hours of the day — during the hottest months of the year — are prime time for unexplained rockfalls and cracking, according to a study of the granite domes and cliffs […]
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