The hang-up I have about a lot of the personal growth industry is that it’s soft and boring. That’s not to say it isn’t important. As an on-and-off therapy patient for about seven years now, I know the value that spilling your guts once a week...
Ladies and gentlemen, fellow outdoor enthusiasts, members of the Singletrack Nation… From Lake Tahoe’s South Shore to its North, East and West shores, from Donner Summit to the Lost Sierra and points in between: The state of our trails is strong....
While Iowa produces the most corn in the United States and Olivia, Minnesota, declares itself the corn capital of the world, Lake Tahoe takes the crown as home to one of the most unique corn harvests in the country. This season delivered a bumper crop,...
Have you dreamed of connecting with the wild side of Lake Tahoe? The Tahoe Rim Trail offers a variety of experiences for everyone’s imagination all year long —from winter survival snowshoe treks to easy interpretive day hikes, hardcore backpacking through-trips, volunteer trail work days and self-guided...
JoJo Toeppner is known in Tahoe’s cross-country skiing community for her infectiously positive attitude and dedication to the sport, whether she’s donning an outrageous costume cheering on participants in the Great Ski Race or at work managing Royal Gorge Cross Country. Outside of Tahoe, she’s...
“You are high, dude. That’s the dumbest thing you could buy in this whole store.” Those were the words of Steve Woerz—aka “Steezy Steve”—spoken to his good friend Ben Paciotti in a Washington surf shop around 2011. The “thing” was a powsurfer, essentially a wide, binding-less...
At nearly the cruising altitude of a transcontinental jetliner, Jim Morrison clicked into his skis and peered down a sheer panel of Himalayan snow. One of the world’s most coveted ski lines lay below him—a precipitous couloir that split the face of Lhotse, the fourth...
Eighteen years ago, the biggest name in ski films traveled to a rural fishing town in southeast Alaska to visit Points North Heli-Adventures, the outsized corporate moniker for what was then just a 30-year-old ex-hockey pro living out his heli-skiing fantasy in the heart of...
Colossal terrain parks were once all the rage at Tahoe ski resorts. Lined with towering jumps that grew larger by the year, they provided training grounds for rising pros and social hubs for throngs of daring young snowboarders and freeskiers launching, sliding, mingling and feeding...
An hour’s drive north of Truckee and a 6-mile detour off Highway 89, Johnsville, California, is a place you’d never pass through unless you were intentional about it. The old mining town, population 21, is now part of a state park. There are second homes...