02 Jul Rarefied Air
Late one Thursday evening, right around sunset, the manager of Steamboat Springs Airport in Colorado notices a small aircraft descending out of the sky, its sleek carbon fiber frame reflecting the purple light of dusk....
02 Jul Eye to Eye With Abe Blair
Here in Tahoe, where many a photographer has come to visit and never left, Abe Blair is held in high regard among the best of them. ...
02 Jul The Ageless Adventures of Floating
I was about 13 years old, living in the suburbs of Connecticut, when a major storm rolled in. It may have even been a hurricane, but at this point, I’m too old to remember the details. ...
02 Jul Raising the Bar
If walls could talk, the red brick building at the corner of Donner Pass Road in downtown Truckee would have plenty to say. Anchoring Commercial Row, its storied occupants have included a stove and tinware shop, (intermission for a fire), a four-story Victorian hotel, an...
02 Jul Behind the Curtain: Robin Williams at Tahoe
As one of the most iconic actors in the history of motion pictures, Robin Williams is naturally associated with Hollywood. But the peerless comedic actor spent his formative years in Northern California, attending high school in the Bay Area, and visited Lake Tahoe throughout his...
02 Jul Where There’s Smoke, There’s Art
If you have a dead weeping willow on your property, please tell Debbie Johnson. The 64-year-old part-time Tahoe resident is always on the lookout for tree limbs and trunks she can cut into slabs to use in her art. Why willow? It’s easy to sand, she...
02 Jul Marlette Lake Takes a Break
If there’s one thing hikers, mountain bikers, anglers, equestrians, and even regional water and wildlife managers can all agree on, it’s the stunning beauty and value of Marlette Lake. ...
02 Jul Less is More
Husband-and-wife design duo Casper and Lexie Mork-Ulnes first connected over their shared love of the mountains, meeting après-ski in Tahoe City in 1999. Casper, an architect who was born in Norway and moved to San Francisco in the 1980s, and Lexie, an interior designer who...
02 Jul Lahontan’s Legacy
Tucked into Truckee’s Martis Valley on a plot of 906 acres, the land that is now Lahontan Golf Club was once a rural property of ponds, rolling meadows and towering forests used mainly for grazing cows. In the 1990s, it was developed into the area’s...
02 Jul A Tightrope of Preservation
Perched above the turquoise expanse of Lake Tahoe’s East Shore is a place where history whispers from every granite stone and wooden beam. ...