23 Apr The Hunt for Sierra Smokys
Most are small, some are big, many are nearly black and a rare few are a rich purple. But no matter their size or color, these coveted specimens are not to be mistaken for your average Tahoe rock....
23 Apr Into the Big Blue Abyss
Every time Dave Kenyon took a breath, he saw the blinking lights of radio towers along Tahoe’s southeast shore. Kenyon is a “right-side breather.” This means he favors turning his head to the right in between strokes. This also means, at least on that particular...
23 Apr Sleuthing an Enduring Mystery
Science forges breakthroughs in the nearly 50-year-old unsolved skyjacking by D.B. Cooper Thanksgiving eve, 1971, Reno’s high desert air was crisp and cold as dozens of local law enforcement officers and FBI agents surrounded a passenger plane that had just landed. “We all took up positions,”...
23 Apr BEST OF TAHOE 2021 PHOTO CONTEST
Photographers in the Lake Tahoe region never cease to amaze. Blessed with magnificent surroundings in the world-class outdoor playground they call home, their talents shine each spring when Tahoe Quarterly puts out the call for our annual Best of Tahoe Photo Contest. This year, over...
01 Dec The Second Coming of the Flames
If you wanted to see what awaits more than 4 million acres of land incinerated by wildfire across California in 2020, you might come to Angora Ridge Road, an undulating ribbon of one-lane asphalt that follows the skyline above Fallen Leaf Lake. You might look...
01 Dec Ancient Ice’s Last Stand
Turquoise blue, soft gray, iridescent silver, pearl white… There’s something sublimely magical about the rich hues found in the ice layers of a glacier. It’s as if glaciers glow with the light of all the centuries they have seen, like time capsules of alpine sunshine and...
01 Dec Wild Horses: Nevada’s Pride and Burden
There is a scene in The Misfits, a 1961 film written by the great American playwright Arthur Miller, that encapsulates the complex and emotionally fraught issue surrounding wild horses in the American West....
24 Sep Walking a Fine Line
It’s not easy to make sense of the evolutionary imperative that compels one to try to cheat death, or at least the illusion of death. Since the dawn of conscious thought, there have always been those who see life as a game worth playing only...
24 Sep The Top 25 Tahoe Snowboarders
To be sure, ranking the 25 greatest snowboarders in Tahoe history is an ambitious undertaking. The Tahoe region, after all, is home to some of snowboarding’s most talented practitioners and influential pioneers, iconic figures who helped shape the sport and continue to push the limits...
24 Sep A Ski Resort Confronts its Name
On May 25 in Minneapolis, a white police officer knelt on the neck of George Floyd, a black man, for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, cutting off his breath and killing him. In the wake of the death, protests rose up across the country with...