From the window of an airplane, towering Sierra Nevada pines shrink to spiky green mats. Expanses of granite peaks that can take hours to hike rush past. Ephemeral connections between clear mountain lakes trace their paths. Engines whir and those in flight gain a grand...
Brian Newman was standing on Echo Summit when the Caldor Fire crested the ridge and moved into the Lake Tahoe Basin on August 30. At approximately 7,382 feet, the summit does not have a reputation as a path for wildfires. Instead, the Sierra pass and its...
Imagine this: You move to Yosemite at the age of 15 to climb big walls. You develop an appetite for bulk food and stale pizza and massive hits of adrenaline, the pure kind that placates but rarely satisfies....
Local ranchers call it Thacker Pass. The native Paiute people call it Peehee Mu’huh. We have no clue that this uninhabited expanse of desert land even has a name. It just looks like a good spot to pull the truck off the road for the night...
Moody’s Bistro & Lounge debuted in Old Town Truckee 20 years ago with a simple premise. “We wanted to open a restaurant and bar with live music, great food and great atmosphere,” says Moody’s co-founder and managing partner JJ Morgan, who with chef Mark Estee launched...
Jamie Anderson didn’t win 19 X Games medals and two Olympic golds without extraordinary talent. But the South Lake Tahoe snowboarder’s skill in staying chill—that is, the ability to maintain Zen at the world’s most tightly wound, high-stakes athletic events—is what sets her apart from...
Claire Hewitt-Demeyer had just unloaded a chairlift when she got the call. On this particular Friday afternoon in February 2021, the South Lake Tahoe snowboarder was taking advantage of the lifts at Kirkwood to get as many runs in as possible, rather than venturing out to...
Bryce Bennett is not your average ski racer. Most conspicuously, at 6-foot-7, the North Lake Tahoe native towers over most of his U.S. teammates and World Cup competitors alike. He readily admits to enjoying summer over winter (better fishing weather, for one). And he is...
With nearly 200 World Cup starts under his belt, highlighted by two downhill victories, four podiums and 37 top-10 finishes, Travis Ganong could hang up his racing skis today and proudly reflect on a long, successful career at the pinnacle of his sport....
The ability to listen to music whenever and wherever you want, at least by 2021 standards, is relatively unremarkable. However, this wasn’t always the case. Before smartphones became home to vast libraries of music, there were mp3 players, some more memorable than others. Microsoft’s Zune....