SPONSORED CONTENT Last month, Tahoe Quarterly Associate Publisher Clayton Humphries was invited to spend a morning on a new electric sportboat on Lake Tahoe. He returned to shore with a new appreciation for these practical high-performance vessels. Boating with “e-motion” The “e-motion” is an all-electric version of the...
Sponsored Content We caught up with Northstar California’s Luke Sheppard, the resort’s mountain bike program manager, to highlight five aspects of its Specialized Bike Academy One-of-a-kind The Specialized Bike Academy is to summer at Northstar what the Burton Snowboard Academy is to winter at the resort. Like the...
Sponsored Content There is boating, and then there is boating on Lake Tahoe. June through September, locals and visitors take to the lane-less waters of Big Blue for recreation, sport and relaxation. While it’s tough to grasp the size and beauty of Tahoe—which boasts over 70 miles of...
Historic winter snowpack presents challenges for those in charge of releasing water from Lake Tahoe The Truckee River is a place of refuge for rafting, fishing and contemplation. It’s also a ribbon of life supplying the water needs of downstream users from Tahoe City to Reno...
In March, Tahoe Quarterly opened our Facebook page to our loyal readers for our fifth annual photo contest. We asked for photos in seven categories—Landscape, Kids, Sports, Instagram, Black & White, Wildlife and Pets—and hundreds of entries poured in to be included in our Best...
Oftentimes, a great home is the result of its team—the architect, builder and interior designer—collaborating from the beginning, a process that allows the contractors to share ideas, work together and move forward to create the best possible home. It’s how many successful homes work—but not...
There is a presumption that high-end custom homes, particularly those that are more architecturally evolved, are built and finished strictly with top-shelf materials and systems. However, inexpensive, utilitarian materials handled in unexpected ways not only can save money, they can introduce a fresh and interesting take...
Wolves—a symbol of wilderness and an icon of the American West—likely wandered the woods of Tahoe and the surrounding Sierra Nevada a century ago. Though estimates put the country’s total wolf population at more than two million when European settlers first arrived in the...
Two years after moving into their custom-built home, a family awoke in the wee hours of March 25, 2014, to the sound of every homeowner’s worst nightmare—the ear-piercing, intermittent screech of a smoke detector. “My wife got our son out of the house, and I found...
The evolution of the green building industry has slowly but surely moved far away from the iconic aesthetic that helped bring it mainstream awareness—thick-walled, straw-bale houses, racks of solar panels propped awkwardly on roof tops, the occasional rainwater barrel—and it has become impossible to recognize...