Incline Village’s Diamond Peak Ski Resort celebrates its golden anniversary this winter. To commemorate 50 years of operations, the resort is asking guests—past and present—to share stories, photos and even those old Rothko-channeling 1980s ski suits. It’s all part of a season-long celebration of this...
“I have never been here before,” the keynote speaker says to an eager audience braving the relentless sun of a seasonably hot afternoon in South Lake Tahoe. “It’s not like I didn’t want to come. Nobody invited me.” The audience laughs in unison. The...
Incline Village’s main hotel has a long, dark history Incline Village, on Lake Tahoe’s northeast shore, was relatively slow to develop. While visitors flocked to Lucky Baldwin’s 100-room hotel and casino in South Lake Tahoe in 1899 or the Bliss family’s renowned Tahoe Tavern in Tahoe City...
Lassen Volcanic National Park celebrates its 100th birthday this year—but the area has been a geologic treasure for millennia One hundred fifty miles north of Lake Tahoe lies a scenic alpine landscape that is being tortured from below. Pools of scalding mud gurgle and churn in...
Jude Bischoff’s wildlife paintings are far from the average bear Abstract blocks and squiggles forming a buffalo, speeding horses made of spirals and pyramids, a boulder-dotted stream flowing within the shape of a bear—this is the art of painter Jude Bischoff, whose works are bright, bold...
How a 1979 ascent near South Lake Tahoe changed rock climbing for future generations Sometimes rules should be broken—especially when ethics, standards and traditions slow the progress of an entire sport. Tony Yaniro illustrated just how valuable it can be to break rules when in 1979 he...
Designed for friends and family, this Martis Camp home showcases expansive vistas On the amble from the master bedroom out to the kitchen to cook breakfast, Gabe and Debbie Whelan can stop and look up and to the right, out a clerestory window perfectly framing the...
Although traditionally vilified, some scientists say non-native species deserve a second look Officials at Lake Tahoe are once again ratcheting up the battle against aquatic invasive species. In language indicative of the war-like mindset taken toward invasives in the Basin, Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) director...
In a remote granite bowl on the western Sierra Crest, unassuming snowfields melt into small braided streams among mule’s ear flowers and pines, slowly gathering together and gaining force, cutting deeper and deeper into the soil and rock, eventually forming the mighty American River. Lying on...
David Kelly was supposed to die at age 6. “My mother took me to the hospital in 1949. I got the last rights and the whole bit, and they put me on the iron lung, and three years later I was out of the iron...