Mountain Dreamers
Two teens took breaks from school two years apart, either side of 1970, and moved to the mountains. Each fell in love with skiing, then with Tahoe, th...
Two teens took breaks from school two years apart, either side of 1970, and moved to the mountains. Each fell in love with skiing, then with Tahoe, th...
It’s chilly out, but an otherwise perfect morning for flying as Clayton Linnemann pushes his cherry-red-and-white SeaRey Elite seaplane from its han...
Larry Prosor isn’t one to glamorize the past or vilify the future, tempting as it may be for someone who built a career on the cresting wave of extr...
Some homes are like championship fairways, in that the details come into full relief only after some time and firsthand experience of the rooms. Citin...
Of all the talented and influential women skiers from the Reno-Tahoe area, Dodie Post Gann and Marcelle “Marce” Barkley Herz share space on the sh...
Tallac, KT, Maggies and Rose. When snowflakes start flying, the names of Tahoe’s mountains start ringing out in conversations everywhere from the...
We’re socked in, stuck in a cloud, with visibility only a few feet at best. It’s snowing, and we’re lined up for a long tour. Rocks give us a sl...
For years I’ve nurtured a wild, almost impossible, dream: to snowboard down Fannette Island, that solitary speck of rugged land rising from Emerald ...
Launched at Harveys Lake Tahoe Hotel & Casino in Stateline this past spring with the glitz and fanfare befitting one of the original Real Housewives o...
Cam Zink waits at the edge of the cliff, bike ready, helmet strapped. Storm clouds gather along the horizon, nearly eye-level from the top of the fin ...
“You can’t ride up that,” said a burly bearded man sitting behind the wheel of a Jeep Wrangler with tires tall as my chest, pointing at a seemin...
On February 12, 2006, Andy Finch stood atop the halfpipe in Bardonecchia, Italy, a snowy village about 90 miles west of Turin, Italy, home of the 2006...
The call of Cabo is loud and clear, a siren song for Steinbeck and Cousteau and those of us living high in the Sierra Nevada, especially during the co...
In 1969, I was walking along the base of El Capitan in Yosemite Valley with a couple of climbing buddies when we ran into Galen Rowell. I was new to t...
Radiant yellow and orange flames leap from what is potentially the world’s most popular wood fire. Its rough-hewn logs are etched with signs of its ...
You may not know chef Brandon Kirksey by name, but you might be familiar with some of the notable restaurants where the Grass Valley native has worked...
When Jason and Missy Hajduk-Dorworth decided to build on their rural Truckee property, they had several key elements in mind for their retirement home...
Artist JoAnne Barbiaux Pohler is modest for someone with her pedigree. Although Pohler stepped away from her longtime Truckee business, JoAnne’...
First names are a fascinating way to explore a region and its evolution over the years, and the Lake Tahoe area is no exception. Names popularly used ...
If you can read this, you’re probably not a bear. Tahoe’s largest residents can’t comprehend printed language—as far as we know—but anyon...
In August 2023, social media lit up with news that one of North Tahoe’s own, 76-year-old longtime local Bill Roberts, was lost in the rocky wilderne...
If it weren’t for TQ’s Best of Tahoe Photo Contest, we might never have discovered the photographic talents of Heather Gaburo. And that—aside...
On any night of the week, climbing gyms across Reno fill with men and women, young and old, crawling up weird plastic shapes bolted to walls erected i...
Originally a spot serving wine and simple food, over time the Italian osteria has evolved into a not-too-fancy eatery focused on pasta, fish and grill...
The “Welcome to Michigan” sign feels like a release. After an hour or two of driving east from Chicago, past the smokestacks and train tracks, ...
Lake Tahoe—as we have hopefully learned by now—is pristine. What circulates beneath its sapphire surface is some of the highest-quality water on t...
As a published author, Joe Flannery has always had a knack for descriptive storytelling—the ability to paint a vivid picture in readers’ heads thr...
When Mike Crabb and his buddy Josh Gutierrez rode off into the swirling dust storm in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, they thought it would be a straigh...
When a married couple enlisted a project team to build a mid-century mountain modern home on a 2-acre lot on Tahoe’s West Shore, they were open to m...
It’s not every day that family-owned ranches and historic sites open their doors to the public. Consider the Sierra Valley Art + Ag Trail a rare ...