Lake Tahoe was looking more like an ocean. Mid-May, an inevitable late-season system was about to hit the Sierra Nevada. Temperatures plummeted below freezing. Westerly winds blew dark, fast-moving clouds across the sea-foam green water. The waves had white caps....
The Angel of Tahoe is seated on her sofa with the mid-morning light streaming through a window that looks out to the greening fairways of Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course. Beyond them, the snow-clad slopes of Heavenly rise to the sky. Slowly, she begins to tell...
To be a Tahoe dog is to live a charmed life. After all, their “backyard” is a fun-filled wonderland with endless opportunities for exercise and adventure, from dock leaps to snow romps, forested trail runs to paddleboard rides atop the lake’s crisp, clear water. Photos...
It’s not uncommon for Ryan Salm to begin a sentence, “One time, in Mongolia… ” There’s no telling where the story will go from there, but it’s bound to be entertaining. Salm, a longtime TQ contributor originally from White Plains, New York, is about as...
Ladies and gentlemen, fellow outdoor enthusiasts, members of the Singletrack Nation… From Lake Tahoe’s South Shore to its North, East and West shores, from Donner Summit to the Lost Sierra and points in between: The state of our trails is strong....
For 75 years, Paradise Flat on the West Shore of Lake Tahoe was a summer home for descendants of spice magnate August Schilling, financier J.P. Morgan and the Pennoyers, who were successful dry goods merchants from Oakland. But on rare occasions, the family would visit when...
While Iowa produces the most corn in the United States and Olivia, Minnesota, declares itself the corn capital of the world, Lake Tahoe takes the crown as home to one of the most unique corn harvests in the country. This season delivered a bumper crop,...
Situated on the threshold where forest meets meadow in Olympic Valley, a 5,435-square-foot home faces west on 30 acres of land. Squaw Creek meanders through the property, bubbling with snowmelt in the springtime. Tall pines sway overhead, and just out the backdoor, the meadow offers...
Each year as we dig out of winter and prepare for spring, we summon our photo-snapping readers to participate in TQ’s Best of Tahoe Photo Contest. In the seventh year of the contest, we asked for photos in seven categories: Landscape, Wildlife, Pets, Black & White,...
At nearly the cruising altitude of a transcontinental jetliner, Jim Morrison clicked into his skis and peered down a sheer panel of Himalayan snow. One of the world’s most coveted ski lines lay below him—a precipitous couloir that split the face of Lhotse, the fourth...