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...
27 Sep Crossing the Rubicon
“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...
27 Sep A Ride of a Lifetime
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,...
01 Jul AI: Animal Intelligence
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...
01 Jul Eye to Eye With Heather Gaburo
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....
30 Apr The Trailblazer Who Forged the Flume
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...
27 Nov Legends of the Lens
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...