For as long as organisms have roamed earth, there have been trails—pathways connecting one point to another for animals to find food, water and shelter. As human life evolved, so did trail networks, with early inhabitants sharing dirt pathways with animals in the quest for survival....
California is no stranger to natural disasters. Between earthquakes, mudslides, floods and wildfires, the Golden State had been handed the short end of the stick by Mother Nature countless times....
Decades-old photographs of childhood summers spent on Lake Tahoe may have faded over the years, but chances are good that the memories still shine in vivid color: impossibly blue skies rivaled only by the even more impossibly blue water below, glaring red nylon swim trunks,...
Throughout history, the fate of wolves has been tied to the attitudes and actions of humans. This long history is filled with thousands of years of deification and reverence for the animal, and vicious killing campaigns and demonization that nearly wiped the species off the...
When Elena Hight speaks about optimizing her mindset, how activism and professional snowboarding have converged in her life or any other topic pertaining to her esteemed career, the 32-year-old South Lake Tahoe resident oozes both a casual tone and a depth of experience. With so...
Reason number 767 why Tahoe kids are super lucky: We live in a world-class region for building snow forts....
It is a clear, crisp day in mid-December, and I am visiting the northernmost sequoia grove in California, located in a remote patch of conifer forest outside the small town of Foresthill. Sunbeams filter through the thick forest canopy onto a thin layer of snow...
From the window of an airplane, towering Sierra Nevada pines shrink to spiky green mats. Expanses of granite peaks that can take hours to hike rush past. Ephemeral connections between clear mountain lakes trace their paths. Engines whir and those in flight gain a grand...
Brian Newman was standing on Echo Summit when the Caldor Fire crested the ridge and moved into the Lake Tahoe Basin on August 30. At approximately 7,382 feet, the summit does not have a reputation as a path for wildfires. Instead, the Sierra pass and its...
Local ranchers call it Thacker Pass. The native Paiute people call it Peehee Mu’huh. We have no clue that this uninhabited expanse of desert land even has a name. It just looks like a good spot to pull the truck off the road for the night...