27 Sep Stella: Truckee’s Shining Star
Stella, translated from Latin, means star. And the Truckee restaurant by the same name at the Cedar House Sport Hotel certainly shines bright....
27 Sep Words From the Trail
Ask Tahoe author Tim Hauserman how many books he’s written, and he’ll say it depends on how you count. “The [Tahoe] Rim Trail guidebook, there’s been four editions,” he says....
27 Sep A United Front
For Lake Tahoe locals, there has always been a love-hate relationship between the need for tourists to support businesses and the negative impacts visitors have on the environment....
27 Jun Hunting Giants
California is home to some of the biggest trees in the world. Redwoods, Douglas firs and Sitka spruces that tower over the lush forests of the north coast. Giant sequoias of incomprehensible girth scattered across disparate groves of the Sierra Nevada. Stately sugar pines stretching...
27 Jun Dirt Magic in the Making
For as long as organisms have roamed earth, there have been trails—pathways connecting one point to another for animals to find food, water and shelter. As human life evolved, so did trail networks, with early inhabitants sharing dirt pathways with animals in the quest for survival....
27 Jun Man on the Mountain
There are ways to take the measure of a man. The years in his life; the life in his years. Two thousand one hundred twenty-five feet is as good a measure as any when it comes to Norman L. Sayler....
27 Jun Tomorrow’s Marinas
Most people come to Lake Tahoe and find a marina. Mansoor “Elie” Alyeshmerni came to a marina and found Lake Tahoe....
27 Jun California’s Lurking Lava
California is no stranger to natural disasters. Between earthquakes, mudslides, floods and wildfires, the Golden State had been handed the short end of the stick by Mother Nature countless times....
27 Jun Shawn Estes: Finding His Form
Shawn Estes was on a much-needed sabbatical. It was the summer of 2010, and for the first time since he started throwing a baseball on fields in Minden, Nevada, the 37-year-old major league pitcher was not on a team. No games on the schedule. No injury-riddled...
27 Jun Restoring Lake Tahoe’s Natural Filter
In the decades since the Tahoe Keys housing development in South Lake Tahoe was built on sensitive marshland, it has vexed environmentalists as a problem without an easy solution. The 250-plus-acre area, which once acted as a sort of filter for the meandering Upper Truckee River...