Tahoetopia

WARREN'S WORLD: Skiing with the Shah & his Bodyguards

The Shah of Iran had flown to Sun Valley to ski with ski school director, Otto Lang. Accompanying the Shah was an entire airplane load of people. This included, but was not limited to, servants, cooks, porters, food tasters, equipment and luggage handlers, interpreters, and sixteen bodyguards.

WARREN’S WORLD: It’s the Size of the Smile, Not the Hill

As long as the snow is white, it’s on the side of a hill, your edges are sharp, your skis are best for the kind of snow you have, then the only thing that matters is who you are skiing with.

New Ice Bar opens at High Camp, Squaw Valley

It took 15 workers 4 days (in storm conditions) to construct the latest addition to the fun in the High Sierra. The bar was opened officially in the last few days just in time to celebrate eight feet of fresh, delicious, new snow.


FABULOUS FEBRUARY '09: Skiing = Superb!

This President’s Day storm is now making way for high pressure to build to serve up some blue-bird conditions-- fresh powder and bright sunshine as the week progresses.

COMMUNITY AWARDS: TAHOE TV is top Small Business of 2008

Over 200 local and regional businesses were in attendance at the gala event, which celebrates the contributions of local businesses and individuals to the North Lake Tahoe region over the previous year. Peter Brandt, Tahoe TV's Network Manager and Creative Director, accepted the top small business award.

SIERRA HERITAGE: This was Tahoe in the 40s

Before the invention of the freeway, Reno was a six or eight hour trip on a narrow two-lane road. I had to drive through and stop at every stop sign or red light in downtown Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond, Vallejo, Fairfield, Dixon, Sacramento and Auburn, as well as all of the smaller towns in between.

WARREN'S WORLD: Winter Sports Stimulus Package

More beer sales will boost the economy some, of course, but, instead, I think some of the millions of dollars for TV boxes should be spent on ski equipment. The trickle-down effect would be much greater than that of beer.

Squaw Valley—Extreme, Part II of II

"The atmosphere at Palisades Tahoe has always equaled a penchant for risk. It is matter of fact," explained the late Norm Simmons, who became known in the sixties for his epic leaps off KT's Eagle's Nest.

Here is the balance of the seven events that helped propagate the Palisades Tahoe legend.

Squaw Valley—Extreme, Part I of II

Strapping on their stiff wooden boards, they descended down a narrow rock-walled needle of snow, over forty degrees of slope. It was beyond rational thought, but in one afternoon the two alpinists redefined the limits of skiing.

New Snow, Sun, and Super Skiing!

After three weeks of sunny days and above average temperatures, what will probably go down as one of the driest Januaries closed out with with a muted bang.

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