The Flood of 1997 is remembered as one of the Reno–Tahoe area’s worst natural disasters in modern history The first drops fell on the northern Sierra on a Monday. It was December 30 and the forecasters had warned for several days that an enormous storm system...
Tahoe’s early generations of snowboarders were instrumental to the sport’s progression long before it hit the mainstream Snowboarding had a rough childhood. Overshadowed by its older, two-planked cousin, the nascent sport struggled for acceptance in its early years, shunned by a resort industry that wanted nothing...
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...