Karmic returns were never our intention setting out on our annual Pacific Crest Trail serenade. After several exhausting hours zig-zagging and slogging up and down steep snow patches, I had to wonder: Was this payback for something done in a past life?...
On a windy, snowy day at Lake Tahoe, most people can be found hunkered down in the cozy confines of their homes, a cup of tea or hot cocoa in hand. Others may be found standing in a lift line, waiting for a ride to...
Some would argue that Tahoe is not the best lake for tow sports. And they would have a fair point. Lower-elevation lakes with fingers and coves provide opportunity for warmer, smoother waters—sought-after characteristics for waterskiing, wakeboarding and wakesurfing, among other watersports. But while Tahoe’s wide-open expanse,...
Tahoe ski resorts spent the offseason bolstering snowmaking and grooming capabilities with new high-efficiency machines, while also streamlining ticketing systems, adding terrain park features and expanding their on-mountain activities. Read on to learn more about the new features and improvements set to greet skiers and snowboarders...
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....
It’s late July, and a tan Cody Townsend takes a sip from a Yeti mug. It couldn’t be further from midwinter, and the nearest skiable patch of snow is hours away, but sitting outside Sugar Pine Cakery on Tahoe’s North Shore, the professional skier from...
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....
Alex Honnold is hunkered down in an airport in Detroit, preparing for a flight to Seattle. He’s been doing a lot of waiting for airplanes to take off and land as of late, going to various events to promote the documentary based on his historic...
Mount Rainier rises like a wayward iceberg from the green sea of moss, fir and ferns that drape both sides of the White River. Towering 10,000 vertical feet above us, it is a disorienting and intimidating glacial behemoth creased and crinkled by yawning crevasses and...
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...