For more than a month in the Lake Tahoe region, the hope was Mother Nature would deliver some much-needed snow. Well, that long overdue request was fulfilled starting Sunday night (Feb. 15). And looking at Tuesday morning’s Snow Report (SEE BELOW), the snow is piling up big time at Tahoe ski resorts. It’s dumping in […]
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Diamond Peak’s Lapanja set for Olympic debut
It’s taken Lila Lapanja a long time to achieve her goal, but it’s about to take place two days from now for the Diamond Peak ski resort product. Skiing in the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Cortina, Italy lies on the horizon as the 31-year-old Lapanja anxiously awaits her debut on the big stage. She will […]
Major snowstorm headed for Tahoe region
Another major storm is headed for the Lake Tahoe region, a much-needed one that will rejuvenate the 2025-26 ski season that has seen a general lack of snowfall. Depending on what forecast one believes, the storm could dump as much as 4 to 8 feet of snow to Tahoe ski resorts by the time it […]
Finally, snow at Tahoe ski resorts
After roughly five weeks frustratingly without it, the snow finally arrived early Tuesday evening at Tahoe ski resorts. By Lake Tahoe standards, it was hardly a sizable dump. Yet it was an extremely pleasant sight for skiers and riders who got a powder day on Wednesday. And it also means Tahoe ski resorts can stop […]
Palisades Tahoe offering $89 lift tickets
It’s difficult to find a one-day lift ticket to ski or snowboard this season at a Tahoe ski resort. However, Palisades Tahoe is providing multiple Wednesdays where the cost is $89 for a lift ticket in a deal the resort is calling Community Days. With the exception of the four discount days, during the entire month […]
Five Olympic skiers with Palisades Tahoe roots
Palisades Tahoe will leave an imprint on the upcoming 2026 Milano Cortina Olympic Winter Games with connections to five skiers on the U.S. team. Palisades Tahoe ski resort recognizes a group of local athletes from Team Palisades Tahoe and Olympic Valley Freestyle who have been named to U.S. teams scheduled to compete at the Winter Games. […]
13 athletes with Tahoe ties on U.S. Olympic team
Lake Tahoe will be well represented at the upcoming Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Olympic team was released Wednesday with 13 Lake Tahoe-area athletes making the 97-athlete roster headed to Italy. Of the athletes with ties to Tahoe, five are first-time Olympians, a list that includes 15-year-old Truckee native […]
Jamie Anderson’s Olympic bid ends
There will be no fourth Olympic appearance for South Lake Tahoe’s Jamie Anderson. Her comeback has concluded. The three-time Olympian and two-time Olympic gold medalist in snowboard slopestyle was notably absent from U.S. Ski & Snowboard’s 97-person roster released Thursday that was headlined by Olympic veterans Lindsey Vonn, Mikaela Shiffrin and Chloe Kim. Anderson is one of […]
Diamond Peak offering $60 lift tickets
If you’ve been a skier or snowboarder the past decade or more, you have realized one thing – the winter sport ain’t cheap. At major destination ski resorts, daily lift tickets were commonly $50 or less in the 1990s and early 2000s. However, those days are long gone. A single-day, walk-up lift ticket at a major resort in […]
Tahoe snow conditions took dramatic turn
Heading into the all-important Christmas holidays, the snow situation in the Lake Tahoe area could be summed up in one word – dismal. Large resorts like Palisades Tahoe had only three out of 288 trails available. In South Lake Tahoe, Heavenly was doing a little better. But 11 trails as of Dec. 23 – most of them beginner runs […]