02 Jul Rarefied Air
Late one Thursday evening, right around sunset, the manager of Steamboat Springs Airport in Colorado notices a small aircraft descending out of the sky, its sleek carbon fiber frame reflecting the purple light of dusk....
02 Jul Eye to Eye With Abe Blair
Here in Tahoe, where many a photographer has come to visit and never left, Abe Blair is held in high regard among the best of them. ...
02 Jul Ancient Waters
Rocks are not widely recognized for their storytelling abilities, but the account of Lake Tahoe’s formation is written in stone if one knows where to look. ...
02 May 25 of the Best Things to Happen to Tahoe
With the magazine’s “Best of Tahoe” theme in mind, this cherry-pick through Tahoe’s history was compiled with input from several longtime local residents and community leaders, with items listed in roughly chronological order....
02 May Riding the Lens
Bud Fawcett remembers when it clicked. Just days before the 1985 Sierra Cup, a snowboarding event, a storm dumped 4 feet of snow on the Tahoe Basin. The highways shut down. Almost everything came to a standstill. Except the lifts. Fawcett, a budding snowboard photographer,...
20 Feb ENTER TO WIN TQ’S BEST OF TAHOE PHOTO CONTEST
Welcome to Tahoe Quarterly’s 2025 Best of Tahoe Photo Contest, now open to entries through March 14. ...
28 Nov Mountain Dreamers
Two teens took breaks from school two years apart, either side of 1970, and moved to the mountains. Each fell in love with skiing, then with Tahoe, then—when they met two winters later—each other....
28 Nov Sailing the Sierra by Seaplane
It’s chilly out, but an otherwise perfect morning for flying as Clayton Linnemann pushes his cherry-red-and-white SeaRey Elite seaplane from its hangar. Working under the purple sky of dawn, the Truckee-based private pilot circles the amphibious aircraft with a laminated checklist in hand, studiously examining...
28 Nov Chronicles of an Acclaimed Cameraman
Larry Prosor isn’t one to glamorize the past or vilify the future, tempting as it may be for someone who built a career on the cresting wave of extreme sports photography in what was arguably the golden era of Tahoe, only to watch it flounder...
27 Sep The High-Flying Legacy of Cam Zink
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...