Welcome to Tahoe Quarterly’s 2024 Best of Tahoe Photo Contest. This year’s contest runs from February 19 through March 8. The same rules as last year apply, but for those who are new to the contest or need a refresher, the guidelines and categories are listed below....
When Hank deVre tucks a camera inside his ski jacket this winter and hits the slopes, it will mark his 50th season of shooting Tahoe ski photos. It’s a journey he could hardly have imagined when, on a lark, he took a fall camping trip...
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...
Backcountry snowboarding in Death Valley National Park was not on our bingo card at the start of winter. Yet here we are the first week of April 2023, strapping into our splitboards on the 11,049-foot summit of Telescope Peak, the tallest mountain in the Panamint...
In the early 2000s, skiing, at least for the younger demographic, was on life support. A generation of riders had found and slowly gravitated toward snowboarding, which was still on the ascent. The new-schoolers were drawn to the shape and flexibility of snowboards, the splashier...
On Donner Summit, in the middle of last winter, deepening snowbanks appeared to swallow the Central Sierra Snow Lab. Only the uppermost windows of the three-story-tall A-frame were visible. A steep pathway dug into the snow led down to the front door, which in dry...
Looking up at what we just experienced, my eyes glossed over. It was an emotional moment. The climbing, the skiing, the people—it all seemed to coalesce in this one moment....
Kelsey and Chris Barkman know wine. And they know food. The energetic, entrepreneurial couple pair the best of both at their Petra Wine Bar & Restaurant at the Village at Northstar....
Village Ski Loft in Incline Village has a smell. Like the apartment of a favorite ex, a hotel room on the first day of vacation, the growing-up home of your best friend. It’s the smell of both expectation and memory. It’s the discovery of finding...
Amanda Reinken fell in love with the Lake Tahoe region about a decade ago, when she and her husband Brian began visiting from their Dallas-area home. “We’d spend a couple weeks in the summer,” Reinken says. “The last couple years, we’ve done winter and fall...