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...
27 Nov Squaw’s French Connection
Squaw Valley’s 70-year tradition of skiing excellence can be traced back to the influence of one man. Yet, in the resort’s pantheon of all-time greats, the originator who set the foundation while bringing fame, prestige and world-class skiing to the newly christened slopes—and attracting others of...
27 Sep The Shape of Snowboarding
In 1978, a designer named Chuck Barfoot built himself a snowboard. He had already been working with his friend Tom Sims on some different shapes, and the latest rendition—made of fiberglass and foam—needed some field testing....
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 Incandescent Life and Untimely Death of Spider Sabich
When Spider Sabich and Claudine Longet first met at a celebrity ski race event in Bear Valley, California, they both carried their respective worlds in the palms of their hands. Sabich was a lauded professional skier from a small town just outside of Lake Tahoe, regarded...
24 Jun Surmounting the Sierra
When Leland Stanford hoisted a silver-plated hammer above his head in a remote patch of uninhabited Utah, the world awaited his strike. The American West was only recently connected to the rest of the nation by telegraphic wires, and ceremony organizers had contrived to put one...
24 Jun Remembering Tahoe’s Boys of Summer
Golden eras in sports are fleeting. They emerge when a combination of unlikely factors align—health, talent and the mysterious chemistry of team sports. And they fall apart just as fast. That mysterious alchemy unique to athletics came together in Tahoe City in the late 1970s, when...