Imagine riding a chairlift to your office on the slopes of a world-class ski resort. Inside, desks face windows that open to the snow-covered mountain, and likeminded entrepreneurs conduct business while sharing stories of epic powder days. This is the Tahoe Mountain Lab coworking office...
Boulders, the newest neighborhood at the private Mountainside at Northstar community, broke ground this past summer and is scheduled to open to owners in February 2018. “Boulders is kind of unusual because it’s geologically interesting,” says Ron Barnes, senior strategist with development company Mountainside...
One local’s quest to reinvent surfing, skiing, soaring and history Craig Beck doesn’t dabble in hobbies. When the longtime Tahoe local gets into something, he tends to go all in. Whether he’s flying homemade hang gliders or working on his latest project—Tahoe Native Surfboards—Beck is...
Truckee Olympian Katerina Nash has achieved much success since her youth in communist Czechoslovakia To be clear, Katerina Nash is not defending communism. As a child of Soviet-run Czechoslovakia and the late 1980s Velvet Revolution, she is quick to say that democracy and America are good,...
Nevada Museum of Art exhibition traces the history and evolution of Burning Man Among the tens of thousands of diehard “Burners” stretching the globe, only a select few know the history behind the countercultural phenomenon quite like Michael Mikel. With the assistance of Mikel and...
Nearly a decade after his discovery, Buddy the wolverine remains an unsolved mystery On a cold February day in 2008, then-graduate student Katie Moriarty was scanning through images from her 20 remote cameras set up throughout Sagehen Experimental Forest near Tahoe when something caught her eye. “I...
“Practically speaking, a life that is vowed to simplicity, appropriate boldness, good humor, gratitude, unstinting work and play, and lots of walking brings us closer to the actually existing world and its wholeness.” —Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild I was fortunate enough to grow up...
World travels—from Asia to Africa to South America—reveal a wide array of culinary concoctions When my husband, Tom, and I started planning our family gap year of global travel, the first thing I thought about, naturally, was food. Even before investing in a raft of...
Sponsored Content My favorite areas to fly fish on a lake or pond are tributaries—where rivers or streams enter the still water. This article is not so much about how to fish these areas, but more about where to fish. Fishing in a stream’s last bit of...
How an unlikely makeshift venue in Kings Beach attracted some of the biggest San Francisco rock bands of the psychedelic era Lake Tahoe is many things, but it is not traditionally thought of as a catalyst for the evolution of rock ‘n’ roll music. Notwithstanding, there...