The 2021-22 ski season is not going out quietly at Tahoe ski resorts. The Lake Tahoe region received snow overnight Wednesday and the white stuff is expected to continue falling for much of Thursday. While snow totals were modest Thursday morning and likely to not be too high by Friday morning, it still beats the […]
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Flashback – Shaun White’s Northstar Superpipe
Famed Olympic snowboarding halfpipe champ Shaun White will be seeking his third gold medal at the upcoming Beijing Olympics. A decade ago, he began prepping for the 2014 Olympics and the “Flying Tomato” was a frequent face at Northstar California, where the Tahoe ski resort built a gigantic superpipe for him to train. Below is […]
Sister reveals how missing brother Rory Angelotta was found
Kelsey Angelotta was searching for her missing brother Saturday (Jan. 8) when she was given the news that his body had been found, two weeks after he went missing at Northstar California ski resort. The Placer County Sheriff’s Office issued a news release Saturday that said the 43-year-old skier’s dead body was discovered by the […]
Tahoe’s Jamie Anderson wins Mammoth World Cup
Lake Tahoe’s Jamie Anderson – the reigning queen of women’s slopeside competition – proved it again, winning Saturday (Jan. 8) at the Grand Prix at Mammoth Mountain in California. A two-time Olympic gold medalist snowboarder in slopestyle, Anderson looked totally under control in landing a switch double cork 1080 at Mammoth on her last hit […]
Christmas skiing at Tahoe ski resorts
Although prospects looked bleak two weeks ago, all is well this holiday week at Tahoe ski resorts, where lifts will be full operation for Christmas skiing. On Saturday (Dec. 18), Tahoe Donner became the last of 13 Tahoe ski resorts to open for the 2021-22 season. And thanks to generous amounts of snow and more […]
White Christmas at Tahoe ski resorts
It’s going to be a white Christmas this year at Lake Tahoe ski resorts. How white, you ask? Extremely white. Weather forecasters are predicting between 4 to 8 feet of snow falling, starting Tuesday evening and running through Saturday – Christmas Day. After having virtually no snow throughout the month of November and a third […]
Boreal offering Tahoe’s only legit skiing
For Tahoe ski resorts, the news regarding snow remains depressing with Mother Nature continuing to disappoint anxious skiers and snowboarders. As of Friday (Dec. 3), the Tahoe region’s 14 ski resorts have a combined one legitimate lift open for skiing and snowboarding. Despite running the lone Castle Peak lift, Boreal Mountain has been drawing pretty […]
New electrified Jeep Wrangler 4Xe
Several years ago, who would have ever anticipated the venerable Jeep Wrangler would go electric? Yet that’s now one option if shopping for a Jeep – one can be purchased as a plug-in hybrid (PHEV). Introduced back in World War II, the rugged four-wheel drive Jeep could go seemingly anywhere and do anything. Fast forward […]
New Gondola to connect Squaw-Alpine
Thanks to a new gondola, the wait will soon be over for a way to easily ski or snowboard at Squaw Valley-Alpine Meadows on the same day. Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows announced recently the state-of-the-art, highly anticipated Base-to-Base Gondola (B2B) will likely begin construction this summer. Officials with the ski resort are unsure at this […]
Declining sales for Hyundai Sonata
A new redesign was supposed to boast sales for the 2020 Hyundai Sonata. However, the revamped Sonata apparently wasn’t alluring enough as sales dropped once again. Now in its seventh generation, the 2021 Hyundai Sonata arrives with lots of improvements due to last year’s redesign. Among the upgrades were new technology features and a larger […]