27 Sep A Man Among Mountains
When Orland Bartholomew pushed off his rake-handle ski poles and began shuffling his hickory skis north toward the jagged peaks beyond Cottonwood Pass, the magnitude of the journey ahead must have been overwhelming....
27 Sep Noah Salasnek: The Natural
In the early 1990s, acclaimed cinematographer and former pro skier Tom Day found himself captivated by the brimming talent of a young snowboarder named Noah Salasnek. But it was a seemingly benign aspect of his riding that clued Day into his elite abilities....
27 Sep The Boom and Bust of Ski Ballet
Bob Howard had been benched. Again. For five games in a row, the college football coach had stared hard at the lanky running back from Hug High School and jerked a thumb at the sidelines. What am I doing here? Howard thought, pacing down Mendocino...
27 Sep Deep Thoughts
Those who experienced Tahoe’s 2018-19 winter will not soon forget it. After a modest start, Old Man Winter socked the Tahoe region with one powdery storm after another in January and February, blanketing the mountains in a thick coat of white and treating skiers and...
27 Sep EYE TO EYE with PHOTOGRAPHER Court Leve
Fate led the Truckee-based photographer to his profession, which now involves working with the most talented skiers and snowboarders on earth How Court Leve, an art history major from the Midwest, ended up an elite ski and snowboard photographer is pure serendipity. “It was meant to...
24 Jun Magnificent and Overlooked
What I remember most about that hike near Carson Pass is not the tinseled sparkle of snowmelt streams or the icy dip in a mountain lake. It is what I found growing on a swale of granite that appeared to hold a thimble of soil:...
24 Jun Get Up, Stand Up
Lake Tahoe was looking more like an ocean. Mid-May, an inevitable late-season system was about to hit the Sierra Nevada. Temperatures plummeted below freezing. Westerly winds blew dark, fast-moving clouds across the sea-foam green water. The waves had white caps....
24 Jun An Angel Among Us
The Angel of Tahoe is seated on her sofa with the mid-morning light streaming through a window that looks out to the greening fairways of Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course. Beyond them, the snow-clad slopes of Heavenly rise to the sky. Slowly, she begins to tell...
24 Jun ‘Dog’gone Good Livin’
To be a Tahoe dog is to live a charmed life. After all, their “backyard” is a fun-filled wonderland with endless opportunities for exercise and adventure, from dock leaps to snow romps, forested trail runs to paddleboard rides atop the lake’s crisp, clear water. Photos...
24 Jun Eye to Eye with Photographer Ryan Salm
It’s not uncommon for Ryan Salm to begin a sentence, “One time, in Mongolia… ” There’s no telling where the story will go from there, but it’s bound to be entertaining. Salm, a longtime TQ contributor originally from White Plains, New York, is about as...