Placer County Sports Articles

Be prepared for snow conditions and getting the kids ready for a day spent outside are essential to ensuring that everyone has a fun time in Tahoe. Here’s some of our tips for helping make your day the best it …

NOTE: This information has been updated from the Jan. 26 print edition to include local Olympians named to Team USA after our deadline. The Winter Games Opening Ceremony is set for Feb. 4, and the Tahoe-Reno region is sending local …

“It wasn’t supposed to happen. Everyday it got closer. They don’t have this — that is when I realized they did not have this fire,” shared John Rice, Sierra-at-Tahoe’s general manager, in a two-part interview with Ski Area Management Magazine …

When I bought the Tahoe Weekly in November 2013, one of my priorities for the magazine was to enhance our outdoor coverage on an issue of personal importance to me – the public’s right and ability to access public lands. …

Tahoe Backcountry Alliance Get educated | If you really want to get into the backcountry, you need to take a class. Get your friends educated | Make sure everyone in your party has taken an AIARE Avy 1 and Avy …

Tahoe has seen record-breaking snowfall after an epic 214 inches of snow in December. Snow for most means it’s playtime in the mountains. Skiing, snowboarding or snowshoeing are just a few activities that make winter fun. The resorts are spinning …

In a nutshell, back-country travel means moving through any area that is not maintained or supervised by resorts or other entities. In the back country, your safety is 100 percent reliant on yourself and those with whom you are traveling. …

Back in 2007 I wrote the book “Cross Country Skiing in the Sierra Nevada.” The most fun section to write was about the different names we come up for the types of snow encountered by cross-country skiers in the Sierra. …

Tahoe Ski Girl, a Tahoe apres-ski apparel company for girls and women, has launched a fundraiser to help local athlete Lila Lapanja, the reigning U.S. Alpine Combined Champion, to go to the Winter Olympic Games in February. Lapanja has been …

By Eddy Ancinas When the 1960 Winter Olympics came to a close 62 years ago, 20,000 spectators in Blyth Memorial Arena and many thousands more around the world, knew they had witnessed an event like none other in Olympic history, …

Each November for the last 21 years, we’ve put together our annual Downhill Ski Guide, looking at each of the ski areas large and small from mega resorts spread across soaring mountain peaks to small, community nonprofits. I’ve penned most …

Be prepared before visiting Carry a face mask at all times & use it when close to others or indoors. Masks are required for anyone unvaccinated while indoors in California, and for everyone regardless of vaccine status in most counties …

Editor’s Note: Read Priya’s feature on Easy Mountain Biking Trails in Truckee at TheTahoeWeekly.com. Due to ongoing fire danger and forest closures, she will explore South Shore trails next summer. There are some days when a cruisy bike ride in …

The name change of one of California’s most historic ski resorts is part of a statewide and national trend to reexamine offensive place names.