Holly Hollenbeck, an interior designer from San Francisco, was on the search for a second home in Lake Tahoe. Growing up in the East Bay, she’d been coming to Tahoe for family vacations for most of her life, and after renting ski leases everywhere from...
It’s a Tuesday morning and Truckee resident Steve Morris is sitting inside his woodshop, softly nodding his head. Two Against Nature, Steely Dan’s Grammy Award-winning album, is pumping through nearby stereo speakers, reverberating the small room with snappy drumbeats and funky guitar licks....
On a morning when Truckee is blanketed in snow, the inside of Good Anya Plant Shop is lush and inviting, a multitude of well-loved plants radiating their positive energy onto anyone who walks through the door....
In the early 2000s, skiing, at least for the younger demographic, was on life support. A generation of riders had found and slowly gravitated toward snowboarding, which was still on the ascent. The new-schoolers were drawn to the shape and flexibility of snowboards, the splashier...
Village Ski Loft in Incline Village has a smell. Like the apartment of a favorite ex, a hotel room on the first day of vacation, the growing-up home of your best friend. It’s the smell of both expectation and memory. It’s the discovery of finding...
Let’s start with some dissonance. Some frustration. That, unfortunately, is what many adults remember when they recall the piano lessons of their youth: hours spent squinting at sheet music and guiltily plunking out notes in front of a stern teacher who knows they didn’t practice....
Things weren’t looking great for the Crystal Bay Club in the spring of 2002. In early April the casino—just steps away from the California-Nevada border on Lake Tahoe’s North Shore—was forced to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy....
Imagine this: You move to Yosemite at the age of 15 to climb big walls. You develop an appetite for bulk food and stale pizza and massive hits of adrenaline, the pure kind that placates but rarely satisfies....
It is impossible to say, at least with any sort of real precision, how many times the Talbot brothers have been around Lake Tahoe. In the nearly 45 years he’s called the area home, Chris Talbot has spent countless hours photographing the lake, documenting weddings, funerals, resorts...
A wise man by the name of Benjamin Franklin once said, “You can do anything you set your mind to.” Sean Rogers is living proof....