Ron Cohen takes the reins of the world-class resort after a polarizing eight-year stretch Like a skier picking a line through treacherous terrain, Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows must navigate through a ski industry undergoing rapid and transformational change. The iconic resorts, which combined hold some...
I sometimes envision the highways and off-beaten paths that crisscross Nevada’s vast landscape as contrails intersecting in the sky. They are expansive, multi-dimensional, and lead to endless and sometimes unchartered corners of a map. Many of these roads were built with dreams of finding silver or...
Caves harbor secrets so intriguing that spelunkers will go to extreme lengths to uncover them. They will search for days to find a hidden opening or dive into unforgiving darkness. They will squirm through tight tunnels and narrow crevices based on nothing more than a...
With the sun’s slow slide toward the horizon each winter, Tahoe transforms. The beaches are quietly abandoned. The boats hauled into storage. And then fat flakes of pure white fall from the sky, leaving one of nature’s wonders cloaked in a blanket of brilliant snow....
Skiing is in Patricia Northrop’s blood. Rather, it’s part of her DNA. “My parents would put me out the back door and say, ‘Go play on these things,’” says Northrop, who first clicked into skis at age 3. “Skiing is such a wonderful feeling, and...
I almost made it to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge back in 2003. My friend and I had packed up her truck and left our Alpine Meadows home for a long road trip to the Land of the Midnight Sun. She was saying goodbye to...
Reno is finding its economic stride. In between the gargantuan Gigafactory pumping out Tesla car batteries east of town and household tech names like Apple and Microsoft that have set up shop in the Biggest Little City, a host of young startups are cropping up. ...
Location, they say, is everything, and Filament, a provider of software solutions in the swelling “Internet of Things” (IoT) world, is exquisitely positioned in Reno....
Jeff Pickett credits his friend Franz Weber, the former world champion speed skier, for the advice that spawned his latest business venture. Now, after years of tinkering, testing and designing, Pickett is convinced that his Reno-Tahoe-based NuDown jackets and vests are fit to compete with...
Alexander Harmsen’s eyes are on the sky where he sees endless opportunities for making airspace safer for commercial drones. “Lots of industries are going to need this,” Harmsen says of collision avoidance software that his company, Iris Automation Inc., with a home office in San Francisco...