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...
Every fall, usually in late October, after the aspen leaves have floated to the forest floor, I ache for winter. Days become shorter, the hue of Lake Tahoe takes on a paler, subdued personality, and I often gaze west in an attempt to remember impending...
There are those who dabble in Tahoe history, and then there is David Antonucci, whose vast knowledge of the region’s storied past could only be accumulated through decades of ardent research and experience....
Lake Tahoe is a winter sports epicenter. Some of the best snowboarders, skiers and mountaineers in the world train and compete along the lake’s scenic shores. In 2024, ice hockey players hoping for a shot at NHL glory will join them in calling Lake Tahoe home....
Summer 2023 marked the end of a long run for a beloved member of our region’s cultural fabric. McAvoy Layne appeared in his final Chautauquan performances as Mark Twain in venues where he’s entertained thousands over the decades, retiring from the stage on September 30...
Let’s start with some dissonance. Some frustration. That, unfortunately, is what many adults remember when they recall the piano lessons of their youth: hours spent squinting at sheet music and guiltily plunking out notes in front of a stern teacher who knows they didn’t practice....
Only while skiing Sun Valley Resort’s Bald Mountain was Jeanne Smith Gaida able to feel the spirit of a man who had cast a long shadow on her life....
For Tahoe’s outdoor aficionados, the moniker Maggies brings to mind a pair of peaks in Desolation Wilderness, a popular, challenging hike near Emerald Bay whose 8,500-foot summits pay off with spectacular mountain and water views. It’s also the inspiration and name for a fresh new...
The story of how Wayne Poulsen developed Olympic Valley in company with—and then without—Alex Cushing is well documented. There is no need to repeat it here. What is far less known—even among ski historians—is the embryonic influence of Martin Arrouge, the man responsible for introducing...