Tahoetopia

Walking on Water (Paddle Boarding) for a Good Cause

Robb mentioned that he, and others, were planning to “paddleboard across the lake” on the coming Monday, August 11, for a ‘good cause.’ Robb suggested that I might like to ‘cover it’.

Paddle Crossing of Lake Tahoe next Monday

The attempt is designed to raise awareness and funding for U.S. Service members injured in Iraq and Afghanistan and members suffering from traumatic brain injury, combat stress, and other war-related injuries.

EXCLUSIVE: Local Doug Stoup to Report on '08 Beijing Olympics

Stoup is going to Beijing as a guest of the Olympic Organizing Committee. In March he traveled to Greece to help start the Olympic Torch Relay and to plant trees in honor of the forests burned in last year's gigantic fires in Olympia, Greece.

PLACES: Squaw Valley

Unlike the many V-shaped valleys, the bottom of Palisades Tahoe holds a broad, fertile meadow that has helped make Squaw the “gem of the mountains” for over 150 years.


Three Faults Under Lake Tahoe

The Tahoe Basin wasn't scoured out by glaciers or extruded by volcanic eruption. Over the course of 10 million years, powerful mountain-building processes slowly uplifted the Sierra range from a shallow sea.

Lake Formation

PLACES: Truckee River, Tahoe City to Squaw Valley

The Truckee River is the lake’s only outlet. The river starts at the dam in Tahoe City and snakes its way down the famous Truckee Canyon that has been the pathway for pioneers, stagecoaches, trains, and, now cars. The river passes through the center of the Town of Truckee and then Reno before it winds across the desert and finishes it’s 60-mile journey to Pyramid Lake.

PLACES: Roller Pass Hike near Donner Summit

Donner got the glory for a number of reasons, but Roller, just a few miles south, had advantages for getting wagons over the crest of the Sierra in the late 1840s.


The Immensity of Timeless Tahoe

A person cannot see the true massiveness of Lake Tahoe standing near the water's edge. Even from a plane, the scale of the lake is hard to judge. The most "wow!" is obtained by looking across the lake from the Tahoe Rim from a place like the Mt. Rose Highway, Mt. Tallac, Freel Peak, or one of the other hiking destinations.

Thunderstorms & Lightning at Lake Tahoe

Five young people were killed by lightning in less than a month in different states between Colorado and South Carolina. As reported by Associated Press, one was biking, one was jogging, one was in a personal watercraft, and two were in a beach hut. So it is important to know that severe thunderstorms are not strangers to Lake Tahoe.

Skys Start to Clear over Lake Tahoe & Truckee

The lightning-caused fires across Northern California are slowly being fought into retreat. The sound you hear is the sigh of relief from visitors and locals alike as summer gets restarted at 6,000 feet near the Sierra Crest.


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