The Back Country's Adventure Slide Show series provides a true Tahoe local experience and a chance to share in the adventures of friends, neighbors and world-class adventurers.

Launched over nine years ago by Mike Schwartz, owner of The Back Country, a year-round outdoor adventure store in Truckee, the series has grown to be a popular midweek pastime for locals to gather and hear stories of others' adventures around the world.

The weekly program, which runs every Wednesday for ten weeks, from early December through mid-February, features a sort of visual storytelling, where adventurers share their photographs and accounts of trips, climbs, journeys, and travels.

"This is a really fun, free, inspiring and relevant event for most tahoe lovers," says Schwartz.

Shows typically last an hour, and are presented by world traveling adrenaline junkies, most of whom are Tahoe area locals. Topics include mountaineering, backcountry skiing, river running, adventure cycling, world travel, and much more.

Held at Bar One, upstairs in Palisades Tahoe's Olympic House, the venue is equally as local-flavored, with an air of many years of history in its walls. The bar is open and many people bring in pizza or other snacks from one of Palisades Tahoe's restaurants. After each show, the conversation continues as attendees mingle for another hour or so to ask questions or swap other stories.

While the tales and imagery take viewers and listeners around the world, Mike adds that "Most stories end with how awsome it is here in Tahoe."

Each week's event is presented by another local adventurer, Dave Nettle, who also does the first and last show of the season. The remaining five shows in 2010 are presented by highly adventurous locals who travel the globe to climb, paddle, and ski in the the high mountains.

2010 Remaining Show Schedule:

January 20 -nicole,karen, susie, sarah, katie, lissa....?! Girls of the Northern Sierra: Four seasons of Fun
Anything can happen (and usually does) when this group of fun loving climbing and skiing gals get together and they have found the perfect blend of friendship, chasing fun and seeking challenge from back country powder skiing and rock climbing in the Sierra back country to places around the world. This will be a unique evening of tag teaming a collection of captivating stories, beautiful images and hot scoops where, like many great adventures, the show will unfold as it it goes along.

January 27 -Shannon Carroll White Water Kayaking: The Middle Fork of the Kings Expedition 2009
Kayakers come from all over the world to run the impressive rivers of the Sierra Nevada Mountain range. The Middle Fork of the Kings River is a 6 day class V run that starts with a grueling 12 mile hike over the crest of the Sierra at Bishop Pass. What follows is 35 miles of intense white water, scouting, portaging, rescue, boat repair, waterfalls and whatever else mother nature can throw at you. The amazing scenery and steep rapids lend to a perfect setting for an incredible trip and is shared with image and story.

February 3 -Peter Croft The Sierra Nevada: Seeking the heart and soul of climbing
We are pleased to welcome Peter Croft back to Tahoe for an all new presentation that highlights the reasons why he first came to the "Range of Light" and how this turned into a long term climbing love affair with high granite peaks and the diverse climbing along the eastern Sierra. His show will feature a short film about his first ascent of "Solar Flare" 5.12 on the Incredible Hulk with celebrated alpinist Conrad Anker a couple of years ago.

February 10 -Dave Nettle Magic Mushroom: A Yosemite Big Wall Experience
Since being established in 1972 at the height of the Yosemite big wall era, this route has retained a reputation for it�s incredible exposure and complicated technical climbing through the wild overhangs of El Capitan's Shield headwall. Experience the humor and challenge of Dave Nettle and Chad Shearer�s adventure with images and stories of 4 days and nights lashed to the "big stone" in one of the most amazing places on earth.

Shows start every Wednesday at 7pm sharp, and end around 8pm. Bar One is located upstairs in the Olympic House at the base of Palisades Tahoe USA. For more information, contact Mike Schwartz at mike@thebackcountry.net.