To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written. My odometer rolled over to 50 recently, so below is an update.
Untold thousands of people, maybe millions, have marveled at the striking color of Lake Tahoe. One of its nicknames is “Big Blue.” Most people think the color is from the sky. Another nickname is, “The Lake of the Sky.” But the unmistakable color of Tahoe is not from the sky.
A bitter cold wind has been blowing down from Canada for the last three weeks. Ski areas everywhere in the West are announcing their openings. For many, it is the first opening before Thanksgiving in a decade. So much for global warming!
Today even old timers can still enjoy skiing—-including me at over 80.
Over the years the island has had different names including Hermit’s, Coquette, Emerald, and the current, Fannette Island. There are colorful stories associated with these names, and two are re-told below, in brief. But the unanswered question has remained: How did the only island in vast Lake Tahoe get there? The answer is now at hand.
To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written. My odometer rolled over to 50 recently, so below is an update.
To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written. My odometer rolled over to 50 recently, so below is an update.
To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written. My odometer rolled over to 50 recently, so below is an update.
Looking for a nice, easy hike to add to the summer list? Grab the kids, the dog, and a picnic lunch and explore Tahoe Meadows at the crest of Mt. Rose highway.
After the Comstock Lode was found in Nevada near Lake Tahoe in 1859, fortunes were made and lost by the turn of a card, the fall of a pistol's hammer, the clicking of dice, and, some say, the rumble of bears tumbling down mountainsides and into the big blue lake.
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