Squaw Valley groomers experience adventure and beauty in their nightly mission to create pristine runs It will be hours before the sun peeks above the shoulders of Marlette Peak, splashing pink color into Emerald Bay and across the freshly frosted peaks of Squaw Valley. Pine martens...
A small but adept crew overcomes difficulties to provide prime skiing surfaces at Tahoe Cross Country On the evening of April 30, I was in mourning. It appeared as if I had skied my last day of the great winter of 2019 at Tahoe Cross Country...
The sound of metal edges slicing over hardpack gives way to silence as Cody LaPlante launches from the lip of a jump, already halfway through a rotation. He completes the first 360 and begins to alter the axis of his rotation, incorporating front flips into...
The Sierra is often slighted by hardcore skiers, but as last winter showed, when Mother Nature unleashes on the mountain range, there is nowhere better to be Last winter I found myself in a familiar conversation with a friend who lives in the Rocky Mountains. We...
The California Highway Patrol is best known for the troopers who safeguard the state’s highways, but an elite team of helicopter rescuers also responds to the most complicated emergencies by air Brandon Hallam is hanging out the open door of a California Highway Patrol helicopter above...
Come fall, when thoughts begin to drift toward sliding on snow, purchasing a new pair of skis or a snowboard is perhaps the surest way to shift the stoke level into high gear. But selecting the right planks for your ability is never an easy...
Those tempting backcountry slopes should be enjoyed with a healthy dose of avalanche education and awareness Laughter, stemming from disbelief at the amount of snow falling on this late-January day, was the only sound along a socked-in road on Tahoe’s West Shore as our group worked...
Lake Tahoe was looking more like an ocean. Mid-May, an inevitable late-season system was about to hit the Sierra Nevada. Temperatures plummeted below freezing. Westerly winds blew dark, fast-moving clouds across the sea-foam green water. The waves had white caps....
Allow me to introduce you to my new(est) lustful fixation—the electric bike, considered to be moral turpitude on wheels by some, or healthy outlet by others. For the uninitiated and e-abstainers who’ve willed their fisted palms from gripping the handlebars of these taboo idols, all e-bikes...
Lake Tahoe’s East Shore is a place of rare, unspoiled beauty—a magical intersection of land and water that stands in contrast to the developed majority of the lake. As a result, this roughly 20-mile stretch of rocky shoreline is among the most commonly photographed locations...