Cam Zink waits at the edge of the cliff, bike ready, helmet strapped. Storm clouds gather along the horizon, nearly eye-level from the top of the fin 1,500 feet above the desert floor. Spectators dot the landscape below. Three years prior, in this same godforsaken patch...
“You can’t ride up that,” said a burly bearded man sitting behind the wheel of a Jeep Wrangler with tires tall as my chest, pointing at a seemingly vertical granite rock slab. I smiled, aimed the front tire of my mountain bike at the slab...
On February 12, 2006, Andy Finch stood atop the halfpipe in Bardonecchia, Italy, a snowy village about 90 miles west of Turin, Italy, home of the 2006 Winter Olympics. Finch, competing against 43 of the best snowboarders from around the globe in the men’s halfpipe,...
The call of Cabo is loud and clear, a siren song for Steinbeck and Cousteau and those of us living high in the Sierra Nevada, especially during the cooler months....
In 1969, I was walking along the base of El Capitan in Yosemite Valley with a couple of climbing buddies when we ran into Galen Rowell. I was new to the sport and not up on my Yosemite climbing history, and thus had never heard...
Radiant yellow and orange flames leap from what is potentially the world’s most popular wood fire. Its rough-hewn logs are etched with signs of its ashen fate, and it has that familiar pleasant crackle. But this fire puts out no heat, has no smell and...
You may not know chef Brandon Kirksey by name, but you might be familiar with some of the notable restaurants where the Grass Valley native has worked his magic: Ethan Stowell’s Tavolata and Girin Steakhouse in Seattle, the latter a James Beard best new restaurant...
When Jason and Missy Hajduk-Dorworth decided to build on their rural Truckee property, they had several key elements in mind for their retirement home-to-be—a floor plan that echoed their 1940s-era Spanish-style home in Aptos, ample glass to maximize the lot’s incredible views and a single...
Artist JoAnne Barbiaux Pohler is modest for someone with her pedigree. Although Pohler stepped away from her longtime Truckee business, JoAnne’s Stained Glass, in 2022, her work continues to illuminate people’s lives and living spaces across the United States—from Hawaii to Florida to Lake Tahoe. ...
First names are a fascinating way to explore a region and its evolution over the years, and the Lake Tahoe area is no exception. Names popularly used around Tahoe from its earliest documented history to the present day reveal a treasure trove of information about...