Tahoetopia

WARREN’S WORLD: Just Gimmie Another Bullet

Rising above the glacier for thousands of feet was Mt. Cook (12,319 ft.). This day the mountain was once again covered in clouds. Down at the base, at the Mt. Cook Hotel, it was raining hard.

Dick Dorworth, Mountain Man

Instead of conquering the top, one of America's most famed skier adventurers wound up in a solo descent off the mountain as he was suffering with cerebral edema.

Nick Badami of Alpine Meadows and Park City dies at 87

He installed Park City's first snowmaking guns and doubled the uphill capacity of the resort. Snowmaking made it possible for Park City to host America's Opening World Cup races in 1986 and for several years thereafter. In 1994, Badami sold his company to Powdr, remaining chairman of the board until 2003.

WARREN’S WORLD: What are You Doing with the Rest of Your Life?

My body still moves, but at a lot slower speed and not nearly with the ability it did forty or fifty years ago. Anyone who says they can do something as well at 50 as they could at 25 was sure lousy at 25. As a friend of mine who died at the age of 103 had a great perspective: “The more birthdays you have, the longer you live.”

Midlife Crisis

WARREN’S WORLD: Busted in Vermont

It was 11 degrees below zero according to the thermometer on the bank building I passed driving out of town. I tried to see through the struggling, iced-up windshields wipers as I pushed on to log another hundred miles before stopping for stay-awake food at a truck stop.

FYI: Forest fires in Russia near Lake Tahoe’s sister, Lake Baikal


Lake Baikal was surrounded by dozens of forest fires in late May, including fires close to cities such as Irkutsk and Bratsk. Many of the region's summer homes (“dachas”) in the mountains surrounding the lake were threatened. The fires are reminiscent of fires at Lake Tahoe in 2007.

Quick Turns With Warren Miller

Six hundred people were there, most all mountain lifers, most all still living the dream. Among those present were world-class skiers and snowboarders like Scot Schmidt, Tom Day, Shane McConkey, and Tom Burt to dole out accolades and love to the primary guy who made them famous.

PLACES: Sugar Pine Point

Sugar Pine has much to offer--sandy beaches, trails, skyscraper forests, a mansion, and, most of the year, solitude coupled with views that sooth the mind.

Author Oakley Hall Dies

Hall published his first novel in 1949. In 1963 Scribner Co. published his ski novel that Hall loosely based on the career of Olympian Dick Buek. His narrative provided much more than apt descriptions of downhill racing and the resulting intellectual explanations.

So, How Was '07-'08 Winter after Slow Start?


Two separate storm periods over the course of five weeks produced the bulk of this last winter's precipitation. The heavy and persistent snowfall during January and early February 2008 made national news.

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