Labor Day 2020, I stood on a dock on Lake Tahoe’s North Shore and gazed across the choppy surface through ominously smoky skies. At the tail end of a long, hot summer, the water temperature hovered around 68 degrees, which is, by all accounts, warm...
Take an exposed body of chilly alpine water, add powerful mountain weather and sprinkle in throngs of foolhardy fanatics, and the result is the silly, sublime and slaphappy Tahoe surf scene....
Since its inception in 1990, the American Century Championship has persisted as one of the premier summer events at Lake Tahoe, drawing big-name celebrities and fun-loving fans for a week of golf and shenanigans at one of the country’s most beautiful courses....
In 2020, in the midst of an especially mild stretch of winter at Lake Tahoe, Old Brockway Golf Course in Kings Beach opened to the public on March 13....
Jeremy Evans was working as a sports reporter at the Nevada Appeal in 2001 when he first encountered the name Marco Siffredi while scrolling through the Associated Press wire. ...
Gliding across a clear alpine lake, the crisp Sierra air stinging my face, I found myself flashing back to some of the fondest memories of my youth....
If you’re going to start backcountry skiing in Tahoe this winter, there are a few things you should know before setting off on the skin track. First, gear. A backcountry setup is not simply skis, boots, poles and skins. It also includes a beacon, probe and...
If you were to compare the ski world to academics, Chamonix might be Stanford, a place where ski innovators thrive and boundary-pushers shred impossibly steep lines. Austria’s St. Anton, and the nearby Bundessportsheim, in particular, would be the Oxford of skiing—steeped in tradition and dedicated...
Mountain-lovers who have long since mastered skiing or snowboarding tend to follow the same natural progression—hanging up the resort gear for a touring setup and heading out to explore far beyond the lifts....
The Tahoe-Pyramid Trail provides a unique opportunity to enjoy the Truckee River in its 114-mile journey from mountains to desert...