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.
Northstar-at-Tahoe delighted skiers and riders on new year's day, opening the first superpipe among Lake Tahoe ski resorts this season.
One hundred and sixty-plus years ago this week the sixty-some members of the desperate Donner Party were counting on the snowshoers who had left for the Pass and Sutter's Fort on December 16. The “Forlorn Hope” group, as it was known, had been gone for three weeks, but no rescuers had arrived back from California.
There are some men and women in the world that spend their entire life looking for the meaning of life. I’ve spent my entire life looking for the free lift ticket.
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