If you can read this, you’re probably not a bear. Tahoe’s largest residents can’t comprehend printed language—as far as we know—but anyone who’s heard recent stories about, say, a mama and her cubs in the Incline Village area figuring out how to open bear-proof boxes to...
If it weren’t for TQ’s Best of Tahoe Photo Contest, we might never have discovered the photographic talents of Heather Gaburo. And that—aside from the many stunning images we receive—is the beauty of the annual contest....
If trails could talk, the Marlette Flume Trail would fill volumes. As one of the most historic, popular and scenic trails in the world, the Marlette Flume Trail represents far more than just a tourist attraction. This 4.5-mile-long ribbon of decomposed granite along a benched cliff...
When Hank deVre tucks a camera inside his ski jacket this winter and hits the slopes, it will mark his 50th season of shooting Tahoe ski photos. It’s a journey he could hardly have imagined when, on a lark, he took a fall camping trip...
Backcountry snowboarding in Death Valley National Park was not on our bingo card at the start of winter. Yet here we are the first week of April 2023, strapping into our splitboards on the 11,049-foot summit of Telescope Peak, the tallest mountain in the Panamint...
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...
Lake Tahoe is a winter sports epicenter. Some of the best snowboarders, skiers and mountaineers in the world train and compete along the lake’s scenic shores. In 2024, ice hockey players hoping for a shot at NHL glory will join them in calling Lake Tahoe home....
Thinking back on this past winter, I see mostly static, like a connection was lost. The entire winter was a white blur, an onslaught of storms that began in November and didn’t stop until April. Numbers lost all meaning—6 to 9 feet in the forecast,...
Before Robert Erickson’s handmade furniture caught the eye of national collectors, before his three-legged Van Muyden chair joined the Yale University Art Gallery collection, before his fiddleback maple rocking chair was added to the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Nevada City-area craftsman tried his hand...
They are nearly 100 years old, weigh 288,000 pounds and move at 4 miles per hour. And you can go a decade or more without seeing them in action. But when historic snowstorms pound the Sierra Nevada, the legendary rotary snowplows come out of hibernation...