Lake Tahoe’s most popular racing series – the Rahlves’ Banzai Tour – is back, with ski and snowboard racing in its purest form. The Banzai Tour begins this weekend (Feb. 22-23) at Kirkwood Mountain Resort. Due to low snow totals, the Banzai was delayed this year. Kirkwood has 9 feet of fresh snow But Kirkwood has […]
Lake Tahoe’s Maddie Bowman joins David Wise as Olympic gold medal winner in freestyle halfpipe
Maddie Bowman helped solidify Lake Tahoe’s standing as a region that producers excellent halfpipe freestyle skiers. Bowman, who trains at Sierra-at-Tahoe ski resort, joined David Wise as a gold medalist, winning the women’s freestyle halfpipe Thursday at the Sochi Olympics. Wise, from Reno, does his training at Northstar California ski resort. Two days after Wise […]
The Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe: Ultimate in a ski-in, ski-out luxury experience at Northstar California
A fresh coat of snow has blanketed the ski resort at Northstar California on this Monday morning in early February, creating a beautiful winter wonderland. It’s definitely a tantalizing sight for anyone who is looking for an adventurous day on the slopes either skiing or riding. And this particular morning vantage point is about as […]
Reliable, affordable pet boarding in Lake Tahoe: Truckee-Tahoe Pet Lodge
Truckee-Tahoe Pet Lodge has become a favored location for people looking for a location to board their pet for a day, several days, or an entire week when visiting North Lake Tahoe. While there are Lake Tahoe lodging facilities that welcome pet stays, there are also plenty of places that force one to leave your beloved […]
Two Lake Tahoe skiers die after reportedly crashing into trees
Two people died last week in accidents at Lake Tahoe ski resorts. The two ski deaths are reportedly the first of the 2013-14 ski season in Lake Tahoe. The ski deaths were a Sugar Bowl ski resort employee from Brazil and a 43-year-old Bay Area man from Belmont who was skiing at skiing Northstar California […]
David Wise – ‘The UnDude’ – captures gold medal in the inaugural men’s freestyle halfpipe
Nicknamed “The UnDude” by the New York Times, David Wise made Olympic history today, taking the gold medal at the Sochi Olympics in the first-ever men’s freestyle halfpipe event. Wise, who lives in Reno and trains at Northstar California ski resort in Lake Tahoe, won on a day when the snow and the conditions certainly […]
U.S. skier Julia Mancuso fails to finish women’s giant slalom; Mikaela Shiffrin finishes 5th
The weather was miserable and it turned out to be a rather miserable day overall for U.S. Alpine skiers Tuesday at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Tina Maze of Slovenia dashed through the clouds and even rain to capture her second gold medal of the Sochi Olympics on Tuesday. Maze edged out silver medalist, Anna Fenninger […]
Commentary: Was Christin Cooper’s NBC interview with Bode Miller inappropriate?
One day after this controversial interview, the question lingers: Was U.S. skier Bode Miller pushed too far Sunday in an NBC interview that kept probing his feelings regarding the death of his younger brother? It was certainly an emotional moment even before Miller agreed to the interview with NBC’s Christin Cooper. Miller had come up […]
Commentary: Can Ligety, Shiffrin save U.S. alpine skiers from disappointment at Sochi?
There have certainly been disappointments regarding the U.S. Olympic Alpine ski team, which to date only has three medals overall at the 2014 Winter Olympics. After a promising start with Lake Tahoe’s Julia Mancuso earning a surprising bronze in women’s combined, U.S. Alpine skiers were shutout over the next four days until Andrew Weibrecht took […]
Kirkwood ski resort in Lake Tahoe reporting 9 feet of new snow in past 12 days
Historically, there have been many years when Kirkwood Mountain has received the most snow of any Lake Tahoe ski resort. This may again be one of those years. Kirkwood gets dumped on During the recent snow storms in the Lake Tahoe region, Kirkwood ski resort got seriously dumped on. The resort, located off Highway 88, received […]