Tahoe Truckee Region Sports Digest

Barracuda Networks has signed an extension through 2025 as title sponsor of the Barracuda Championship. Part of the PGA Tour, the event takes place at Tahoe Mountain Club’s Old Greenwood Golf Course.

Northstar California Resort recently announced the opening of its new restaurant, Wild Pine, located near the rink in the heart of the village.

EV Range and Liberty, a subsidiary of Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp., announced a three-way collaboration that brought four high-powered electric vehicle fast chargers to the Tahoe ski resort.

Nevada County will give out $434,000 to fund public health and safety projects at outdoor recreation destinations impacted by the pandemic.

Homewood will move to lifetime family memberships in two years. How many will be available to the public and how much they will cost is still unknown.

Alterra Mountain Company has closed on the purchase of Snow Valley Mountain Resort, adding another Southern California destination to its portfolio.

High Fives Foundation, the adaptive sports and injury prevention nonprofit, has appointed 11 new members to its board of directors, including a new board president, Susan Stone.

Speed skiing record-breaker, father, and North Tahoe real estate broker Jeff Hamilton (1966-2023) died of pancreatic cancer. A memorial is set on Jan. 22 at 4 p.m. at Olympic Village Inn.

The Tahoe Backcountry Alliance aims to make backcountry sports more accessible for those who are just getting started, while making sure those who participate are responsible stewards.

Sugar Bowl Resort’s new tubing and snow play park is opening this winter, with tubing lanes that will get visitors’ hearts pumping.

Much work has been under way in the year following Caldor Fire destruction at Sierra-at-Tahoe and on Dec. 3, the ski resort's management expects to be spinning lifts once again.

Truckee's Ryan Williams has come full circle. The co-founder of local startup, Stomp Sessions, announced the company has been acquired by Outside Interactive, Inc.—the same brand that featured him in its Warren Miller movies in the ’90s.

Filmmaker Warren Miller’s team debuted its 73rd annual ski and snowboard film, “Daymaker,” which features Tahoe-area athletes Jonny Moseley, Michelle Parker, Connery Lundin and Daron Rahlves.

It’s snowmaking season at Lake Tahoe, a sure sign that winter is approaching. Northstar kicked off snow making this weekend as the thermometer plummeted.

U.S. Ski & Snowboard has announced lineups for the 2022-23 alpine, snowboard, and cross-country teams, and several of the region’s athletes again made it onto the national squads.

US Forest Service and Sensus R.A.D. Trails opened a new all-levels mountain biking trail on a rehabilitated logging road on Upper Tyrolean trail above Incline Village.

Sugar Bowl Resort will join 24 other ski resorts as a member of the Mountain Collective. Passholders can ski or ride two days with no blackout days at all 25 partner resorts.

A pioneer of women’s whitewater rafting in the 1990s, Sue Norman returned to racing for the first time in 20 years in 2019. She came away from her first event impressed by the number of young female paddlers and inspired to help youth excel.

Vail Resorts has targeted opening dates for Lake Tahoe ski areas. Heavenly Mountain Resort and Northstar California plan to open Nov. 18, with Kirkwood Mountain Resort targeting Dec. 2. This winter is the 50th anniversary of operations at Northstar and Kirkwood.

During a long career in lift construction and ski resort management, Hans Burkhart earned a reputation for completing the most difficult, demanding projects safely and on time. Now, he’s writing a book.

There are dozens of golf courses around the Lake Tahoe basin that offer breathtaking views and challenging play. Avid golfers and pros weigh in on their favorite holes, whether it be best views, unique features or fun game play.

With area ski resorts starting to close for the season, and backcountry skiers finding less and less snow on their favorite lines, outdoor recreation trends have begun the annual shift to warmer weather activities like hiking and mountain biking.

After 16-year-old Scotty Lapp died tragically in a ski accident on Feb. 13, his idea of a local skateboard park began to take on momentum. Scotty’s mother has been working with a group of his North Tahoe High School friends to make the skateboard park a reality.

With passholders and skier visits in decline during the past 10 years, JMA Ventures, which bought Homewood in 2006, has had to pivot to a hybrid, semi-private model that will restrict access to season passes to people who buy new Homewood residences and full-time residents of several West Shore homeowners associations.

Sierra College Women’s Basketball are California State Champions for the first time since 1999 after a March 13 win at West Hills College in Lemoore over conference rival San Joaquin Delta College.

Sierra-at-Tahoe has announced plans to open for one weekend only, April 9-10, to celebrate 75 years of “history, cherished memories, good times and … tough times too.”

Alterra Mountain Company has announced plans to invest $344 million in capital improvements. It will include replacing Mammoth Mountain lifts and installing a gondola at Palisades Tahoe.

Luis Medearis went from never having been on a snowboard to becoming a successful snowboard videographer living in Kings Beach. One of the few Black videographers in the industry, he’s hoping to use his success to inspire Black youth.

A new climate change analysis concludes that the Lake Tahoe area is already too warm to risk hosting the Winter Olympic Games. But others aren’t ready to give up. Jon Killoran, CEO of the Reno-Tahoe Winter Games Coalition, says the study is “another piece that would be taken into account. ... [I]t’s a matter of what people do about what those ramifications are, to either mitigate them or not.”

Thirteen athletes from the Tahoe-Truckee area went to Beijing to compete in the 2022 Winter Olympics. Here's how they fared.

This March, Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe will begin deconstruction of the Lakeview Triple, a fixed gripped chair that was constructed in 1980. The chair will be replaced with a high-speed quad.

A Timbersled is part dirt bike, part snowmobile, all adrenaline. Powersports company Polaris owns the brand, but the name has become the universal term for this hybrid machine, like Kleenex and Xerox.