25 Apr Dick Buek: Wild by Land, Air and Ski
Lake Tahoe and Truckee tend to attract free spirits. Few have been freer than Richard “Dick” Buek....
25 Apr Family Ties
Many an athlete has represented the Lake Tahoe region over the years on the grandest winter sports stage of all: the Olympic Winter Games. After the most recent iteration in Beijing, JC Schoonmaker can add his name to that lengthy list. But while a significant...
06 Dec Grooving on the Go
The ability to listen to music whenever and wherever you want, at least by 2021 standards, is relatively unremarkable. However, this wasn’t always the case. Before smartphones became home to vast libraries of music, there were mp3 players, some more memorable than others. Microsoft’s Zune....
25 Jun Reinventing the Wheel
It wasn't altruism that drove Max Jones to clear brush from the antiquated trail that once served as a flume from Lake Tahoe to Virginia City. “It was purely selfish,” Jones says. “It was all just so I had a ride to do.”...
19 Feb Frog Lake’s Forgotten Past
For the better part of the past century, Frog Lake sat in relative obscurity in the rugged high country near Truckee—a serene alpine oasis visited by few with the exception of the landowners and their close friends....
01 Dec A Legacy Set in Stone
In the winter of 1973, Jake Smith left his job-with-a-future and drove his flat-land car through a storm to Tahoe. Alpine Meadows was hiring for the spring. Lodge maintenance was a toehold in the mountains. He found a small cabin to rent on the West...
25 Jun The Links of Tahoe Lore
Mirroring national trends, the history of golf at Lake Tahoe can be traced to a series of popularity booms in the industry...
25 Jun Ty Cobb: A Tamer Tiger at Tahoe
There are two versions of Ty Cobb at Lake Tahoe. Two stories representing each are set against wild weather events at his East Shore cabin near Cave Rock. They paint a picture of baseball’s first Hall of Famer as a man guided by impulse....
25 Jun The Pandemic that Paralyzed Truckee
The Spanish flu hit the young railroad town particularly hard during the snowy winter of 1918-19 In the Iliad, the ancient Greek poet Homer describes the god Apollo bringing the plague to an unsuspecting town in the following manner: Like night he came and sat beyond...
23 Apr An Oasis of History High in the Hills
Each summer, thousands of eager hikers flock to Desolation Wilderness, focused on reaching the area’s sparkling lakes and granite peaks. But along one of the most popular trails into the wilderness, they stumble upon an unexpectedly rich part of Tahoe’s history—a bubbling spring and a...