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Winter Fest 2012— Peggy Fleming, the 49ers and curling come to Tahoe
By Kyle Magin Tahoe is nothing if not eclectic. On Friday, Gold Medalist Peggy Fleming gave impromptu skating lessons on the Resort at Squaw Creek skating rink, where just hours later San Francisco 49ers greats past and present practiced their hand at curling alongside members of the U.S. National Team. What a place. The team [...]
Q&A with Julia Mancuso; talking lingerie, tiaras, podiums and Sochi
Raised on the slopes of Squaw Valley USA, skier Julia Mancuso has three Olympic medals (more than any other American female alpine skier) and a fistful of World Championship and World Cup podium finishes to her name. When not flying down a snow-covered mountain, “Super Jules,” as she is known to her fellow U.S. Ski [...]
Old Guys Rule
To those age-group athletes fretting that their best years are behind them, think again. The good news: If you’ve been hammering the roads, trails, slopes and waterways for most of your adult life, you’ve probably lost only a little of your overall fitness. Take solace in local race results—in cross-country skiing, quinquagenarians regularly trounce athletes half their age. In ultra-marathons, athletes [...]
The Sherpettes: Schlepping So You Don’t Have To
Jeni Lammerding is overloaded. She’s halfway into the 7.5-mile trek to Desolation Wilderness’s Lake Schmidell, and the 40-pound, worn canvas backpack she’s carrying is downright cumbersome, its contents bulging and dangling from jerry-rigged bungee cords. They’re an unlikely pair—the externalframe pack having been manufactured before she was born—but Lammerding isn’t shouldering this load for herself. She’s a Sherpette, and the pack belongs to a 75-yearold client, one severely in [...]
Q&A with U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein
A native of San Francisco, U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) was elected to the San Francisco County Board of Supervisors in 1969 and served two and a half terms as president of the board. She became mayor of San Francisco in November 1978 following the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk and was subsequently elected to two four-year [...]
Best Way to Light up the Night
Andrea Creo overcame her fear of fire by learning to swing flaming orbs suspended by string around her body. Founder of the Tahoe Fire Dancers, Creo first witnessed fire dancing, appropriately, at Burning Man, five years ago. Based on the traditional movements of the Maori poi performance in which balls, attached to a length of [...]
The Tahoe Fund Takes Off
For all the talk of protecting Lake Tahoe, lack of funds, reams of paperwork and bureaucratic holdups often delay getting initiatives beyond the drawing board. Enter the Tahoe Fund. “It’s a nonprofit dedicated to on-the-ground projects,” says Cindy Gustafson, Tahoe Fund president. “We’re about raising funds to get projects done.” A bi-state, Basin-wide initiative, the [...]
