After a 17-year playing career and stints as a manager and TV analyst, Williams is back on the field, now as a third base coach for the Oakland A’s, photo by Michael Zagaris, courtesy Oakland A’s Former Carson High and San Francisco Giants star Matt Williams returns...
Virtually frozen in time, this former stagecoach stop and fabled fishing lake is both a reminder of the Sierra Nevada’s past and a harbinger of its environmental future For decades the only things that escaped the gates of Webber Lake were stories and legends—whispers of rainbow...
Photo by Clayton Boyd, courtesy The North Face World-class Tahoe ultrarunner Rory Bosio driven by her love for the outdoors In 2013, Tahoe City native Rory Bosio crossed the finish of her first Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc in Chamonix, France, with a relieved smile spread across her sweaty...
Generally speaking, wild animals are not big on human interaction. It’s why photographers covet the rare, and often unexpected, opportunity to capture these elusive creatures from behind the lens. But they are out there, roaming the rugged lands and ruling the open skies over Lake...
Placer miners continue to pan Sierra streams, gripped by the same gold fever that shaped California James Dee and Keith Mullenix are sitting on the steep bank of the North Fork American River at Mineral Bar, just outside of Colfax. It’s late afternoon, and though James...
Tracing the rise and fall of one of Tahoe's most talented and charismatic athletes Dan Osman attacks Slayer with meticulous fluidity. Slayer is the hardest rock climbing route at Cave Rock, the once-thriving climbing destination teeming with some of the most difficult sport routes in...
The Lake Tahoe region is home to five spectacular wilderness areas Identifying the dizzying array of federal public land in the United States can be difficult. You may think you know what a national park looks like—snapshots of the dawn of creation, like Yosemite’s towering granite monoliths...
In March, we opened Tahoe Quarterly’s Facebook page to our loyal readers for the sixth annual photo contest. We asked for photos in seven categories—Landscape, Kids, Pets, Instagram, Black and White, Wildlife and Sports—and over 200 submissions poured in. Taking into account the number of...
The pros and cons of a future Reno–Tahoe Winter Games It’s a local myth that Tahoe’s development boom of the 1960s and ’70s—which radically reshaped the area landscape, endangered The Lake’s clarity and led to the creation of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency—was due to the...
One of snowboarding’s top talents is looking ahead to a future outside the pipe Danny Davis, photo by Gabe L’Heureux For someone who has lived his life in the snowboarding spotlight, Danny Davis seems utterly comfortable sipping coffee in a tucked away corner of downtown Truckee’s Dark Horse...