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...
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...
Imagine a baby-pool-sized bowl filled with food so irresistibly delicious that you were enticed to crawl inside and start eating it by the handful. Welcome to the messy, but undoubtedly delectable, life of a bee....
When you venture into the wild with nothing but a few simple art supplies and observe what’s around you, the world opens in illuminating ways. Make it a regular practice, and you might even become a budding naturalist....
Tyler Burges, former executive sous chef of San Francisco’s multi-Michelin-starred Saison, heads up the hearth at this Japanese-inspired spot, which specializes in wood-fired cuisine presented in an impeccably styled eatery at the state line. Order a la carte or the omakase (tasting menu), which might...
Tahoe City’s long-running lakefront gem Christy Hill has a new chef and ownership. At the beginning of the year, executive chef Andrew Shimer wrapped up his 12-year run to pursue his own eatery. His replacement, Luis Vallin, is a graduate of the Gastronomic Institute in...
Thinking back on this past winter, I see mostly static, like a connection was lost. The entire winter was a white blur, an onslaught of storms that began in November and didn’t stop until April. Numbers lost all meaning—6 to 9 feet in the forecast,...
Before Robert Erickson’s handmade furniture caught the eye of national collectors, before his three-legged Van Muyden chair joined the Yale University Art Gallery collection, before his fiddleback maple rocking chair was added to the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Nevada City-area craftsman tried his hand...