Homewood Mountain Resort in Lake Tahoe will host the Tahoe 200 Running Festival on Sept. 13-15. Located on the West Shore of Lake Tahoe, Homewood Mountain Resort will serve as host for the Tahoe 200 Running Festival, a weekend event designed to include races, live music, a vendor village and other related activities for runners […]
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Barkley returns to this week’s American Century Championship
Charles Barkley isn’t sure how well he will play at the upcoming American Century Championship, July 9-14 at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course. But the outspoken Hall of Fame basketball player doesn’t really care. Visiting Tahoe in July is still his favorite week all year. Barkley will once again bring his oversized personality, good nature and […]
Curtain comes down on Squaw Valley ski season
The curtain finally came down on the ski season at Squaw Valley. The popular Tahoe ski resort closed Sunday (July 7), ending the fourth largest season of operating days in the resort’s history. The season lasted nearly eight months and there were 212 operating days this season. Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows opened for the 2018-19 […]
Lake Tahoe a fabulous golfing region
Lake Tahoe needs no introducing in the winter months. Travelers regularly arrive from around the country and internationally, making the gorgeous Tahoe basin their home for a week or more. Tahoe has the largest concentration of alpine ski resorts in North America with 14, and roughly a dozen cross-country ski centers in the majestic Sierra […]
Squaw Valley remains open through July 7
The only Tahoe ski resort still open, Squaw Valley will offer skiing and snowboarding through the Fourth of July weekend and has a closing date of Sunday, July 7. Squaw Valley is open July 3-7 and just concluded $5 Fridays on June 28. Squaw offered $5 advance-purchase lift tickets every Friday in June with all […]
Olympic Club’s Finlen new GM at Winchester Country Club
A fixture for more than three decades at the famed Olympic Club in San Francisco, Pat Finlen has found a new home in the foothills near Sacramento. Finlen, the longtime Olympic Club and golf profession leader, has assumed the role of general manager at Winchester Country Club in Meadow Vista, Calif. Finlen, 60, will utilize […]
Squaw Valley offering $5 lift tickets
Squaw Valley ski resort in Lake Tahoe will offer $5 lift tickets in June. Skiers and snowboarders of all ages are invited to celebrate spring on the slopes at Squaw Valley with $5 lift tickets on four consecutive Fridays in June. “Five Dollar Fridays” will benefit the Tahoe Fund, a nonprofit organization that supports environmental […]
Squaw Valley has excellent spring snow conditions
Squaw Valley ski resort in Lake Tahoe remains open and is currently offering arguably its best spring snow conditions in decades. Squaw Valley received another 5 inches of snow Monday night, bringing its snow total this week to nearly 2 feet. The Tahoe ski resort has received 710 inches of snow this season (58-plus feet), […]
Latest snowfall puts Squaw at 700 inches for season
Nearly a foot of new snow Friday morning put Squaw Valley at exactly 700 inches for the 2018-19 season. Friday (May 17) is a powder day in May! Squaw Valley received 11 inches in the last 24 hours on its upper mountain, bringing the two-day total to 18 inches and a cumulative total for the […]
Squaw Valley receives 7 inches of snow
More than a half foot of snow at Squaw Valley and cool temperatures make for a couple of tempting reasons for skiing or snowboarding right now in Lake Tahoe. Squaw Valley, the only Tahoe ski resort that remains open, received 7 inches from the recent storm. The forecast calls for continued accumulation throughout the day, […]