If trails could talk, the Marlette Flume Trail would fill volumes. As one of the most historic, popular and scenic trails in the world, the Marlette Flume Trail represents far more than just a tourist attraction. This 4.5-mile-long ribbon of decomposed granite along a benched cliff...
Living within my 67-year-old body is a 20-year-old playing Frisbee with friends on a drought-stretched beach in North Lake Tahoe. It’s early spring 1977 and there’s zero snow at lake level. Between throws and catches, a faraway flash from across the lake, high above the...
Lake Tahoe has no major league sports team, so one could be forgiven for believing the region has never known the mutual adulation that grows between a city and a professional athlete. But that conjecture would be mistaken....
Among the welter of celebrity golf tournaments, one stands above the rest: the American Century Championship, played annually at Edgewood Tahoe Resort in Stateline for the past 34 years....
For generations, the community ski hill was where millions of Americans learned their first turns on snow. But in the modern era of mega-corporations, mergers and acquisitions, these cherished locations have become increasingly rare, with thousands of ski resorts across the country dwindling to a...
Even the burliest, most steadfast powder aficionado can be forgiven for seeking respite from snow come late spring and early summer, especially after a brutalizing winter. Sometimes we want to mountain bike, or recline at the beach, or play golf. Sometimes the feet just ache...
The last sweeping left-hand turn on Sierra-at-Tahoe Road as the ski resort comes into view is often where the impacts of the Caldor Fire hit home for visitors....
Nothing makes you feeler smaller than standing on top of a mountain at 10,500 feet in elevation in the dead center of Nevada, looking out hundreds of miles in every direction and seeing nothing but endless basins and ranges. No cities, no lights and no...
I started riding gravel in the spring of 2017 when, on a bit of a whim, I registered for the Lost and Found Gravel Grinder. This 100-mile gravel race was part of the Lost Sierra Triple Crown Series put on by the Sierra Buttes Trail...
The Sierra Nevada and the rest of the West have a big forest fire problem—not for any single reason, but rather numerous compounding factors that have created the highly combustible landscape we see today. The good news: Agencies responsible for managing our forests understand this well,...