Weather permitting, North Lake Tahoe and Tahoe Douglas fire protection districts, California State Parks, California Tahoe Conservancy, and the U.S. Forest Service plan to continue prescribed fire operations beginning May 15. If conditions are favorable, operations may take place near Sugar Pine Point, Brockway Summit, Incline Village, Glenbrook, Lower Kingsbury Grade, Ski Run Boulevard, Lake […]
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By Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times The headline news, and deservedly so: Massive layoffs at ESPN, cost-cutting that cost the jobs of dozens of high-profile reporters and personalities. Beneath the headline: ESPN is dropping “Baseball Tonight” except for Sundays and special events and adding MLB Network’s “Intentional Talk” to its daily ESPN2 lineup. It’s […]
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By Matthew Renda, Tahoe Quarterly With Yosemite as its epicenter, the Sierra Nevada is unquestionably the mecca of rock climbing. Some argue the sport was born in the Sierra when John Muir performed an on-sight free solo of Cathedral Peak in Tuolumne Meadows in 1869. Muir’s climb, without the benefit of advanced planning or ropes, […]
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By Kathryn Reed A yellow jersey may have figuratively brought Katie Hall warmth, but she was literally shivering after riding for more than three hours to win stage two of the Amgen Tour of California. “It was definitely cold at the start. There were some flurries,” Ruth Winder, who earned the best young rider jersey, […]
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By Kat Kerlin, UC Davis News Service To outer space and the deep ocean, add “beneath the ice” to the list of rarely charted frontiers of science exploration. There have been very few expeditions where robots dived beneath polar ice shelves to characterize and measure them. UC Davis engineering Professor Alexander Forrest recently returned from […]
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The Truckee Ranger District plans to burn 80-120 acres of understory vegetation near Stampede Reservoir today. Crews will be monitoring weather and fuel conditions throughout Friday. Winds are projected to be out of the southwest which should blow smoke away from communities. The district said there are only a handful of days when weather, smoke dispersion and […]
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By Katie O’Reilly, Sierra Noise pollution is typically considered an urban problem. However, new research shows that the invisible threat found in the din of human activity (also known as anthropogenic sound) is increasingly taking its toll on the natural world. A first-of-its-kind study, released last week from scientists at Colorado State University and the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Those who were betting against Megan Guarnier lost in a big way on Thursday. The defending Amgen Tour of California women’s champion collected three jerseys in the opening stage. The 31-year-old’s voice cracked on May 11 when she spoke to the crowd at Heavenly Mountain Resort about what the day meant to […]
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More than five years after Promised Land Express chairlift opened at Northstar the ski resort is now in compliance with conditions put it on by Placer County. The resort donated a conservation easement on 56 acres to the Truckee Donner Land Trust. The resort first treated the 56 acres for fuels reduction and wildlife enhancement. This […]
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Alpenglow Sports’ fifth annual summer edition of the Alpenglow Mountain Festival is June 17-25. This is a nine-day mountain-lifestyle festival in North Lake Tahoe celebrating human-powered events, clinics, presentations and more. It is geared toward the beginner and intermediate mountain sports enthusiasts. It will include trail running, hiking, backpacking, lakeshore yoga, standup paddleboarding, rock climbing […]
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