Troy Caldwell, the enigmatic landowner between Squaw and Alpine, talks past dealings, legal battles and future plans He was a man out of his element. Far away from his native habitat of the Sierra Nevada, Troy Caldwell was navigating the throngs along Market Street in downtown San...
Incline Village’s main hotel has a long, dark history Incline Village, on Lake Tahoe’s northeast shore, was relatively slow to develop. While visitors flocked to Lucky Baldwin’s 100-room hotel and casino in South Lake Tahoe in 1899 or the Bliss family’s renowned Tahoe Tavern in Tahoe City...
How a 1979 ascent near South Lake Tahoe changed rock climbing for future generations Sometimes rules should be broken—especially when ethics, standards and traditions slow the progress of an entire sport. Tony Yaniro illustrated just how valuable it can be to break rules when in 1979 he...
Through the wafts of cigarette smoke, the clinks of whiskey glasses and the inebriated squeals of a few straggling showgirls regularly employed at the Cal-Neva, it becomes apparent that Ty Cobb has a full house, while Howard Hughes leans on his two of a kind—both...
Volcanoes, glaciers and earthquakes formed Lake Tahoe...
The famed auto designer raced around the world, but part of his heart remained in Tahoe...
A remembrance of famed guide and climber Bela Vadasz...
The Tenth Mountain Division fought in WWII then came home to build the ski industry...
America’s most recognizable, and possibly the most valuable, wooden speedboat turns 75 this summer....
How one man lost the symbol of his family’s glory in Tahoe's depths and another achieved glory finding it...