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Back-country safety: Gear, training & forecast essential

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 …

Back country 101

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. …

Know Your Snow

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. …

Help Lapanja go to Olympics

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 …

SNOW Sports Museum

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, …

Tahoe’s downhill ski season opens

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 …

21st Annual Downhill Ski Guide, Winter 2021-22

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 …

Easy Mountain Bike Trails: North Lake Tahoe

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 …

Image caption: The ski resort once called 'Squaw Valley' has changed its name, which resort owners acknowledged was racist and sexist.
Ski Resort Changes ‘Derogatory, Offensive’ Name

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.

Image caption: A group of cyclists seen rest on a ridge in Plumas National Forest.
Tahoe Trails Opened to E-Bikes

A recent decision by Tahoe National Forest and a proposal by the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit to open miles of mountain bike trails to Class 1 ebikes followed a two-year process that became contentious.

Forest Service nears decisions on snowmobile use

The decisions are almost here. Since 2015, the U.S. National Forests spread throughout the Tahoe Sierra have been neck deep in the process of designing over-the-snow vehicle management policies for its vast public lands. Now, the majority of forests in …

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Run to Feed the Hungry participants raise funds for Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services.
Running Around California’s Capital Region
A roundup of running events, trails, clubs and more in Sacramento, Yolo, San Joaquin, Placer, El Dorado, and Nevada counties