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EXCLUSIVE #2: Local at Summer Olympics in Beijing

Misty May Treanor and Kerri Walsh beat Cuba and men's favorites Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers won and move on into the round of 16. During the fun I watched Dutch fans drink an inordinate amount of beer. A can of Bud costs $10 a pop and one Dutch guy returned to his seat with 20 beers. These are wealthy beer drinkers!

EXCLUSIVE #1: Doug Stoup on Beijing Olympics

China has one of the world's oldest peoples and continuous civilizations consisting of states and cultures dating back more than six millennia.

EXCLUSIVE #3: Local at Great Wall near Beijing

Construction of the wall's 25-foot high and 12-foot wide walls was begun during the 3rd century and mostly completed by 1644 during the Ming Dynasty. Just like some of the Olympic events I've been watching, the wall is a powerful statement.


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.


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