Tahoetopia

New Look: Tahoe-Truckee Art

A new art exhibit, Tahoe-Truckee: Modern Regional Art, opens in September (2007) in Truckee at Carole Sesko Contemporary Art Gallery in Truckee. "If you like your art strong, smart, and hot, you need to see this show," says the gallery owner and artist, Carole Sesko.

California Population is 38 Million

The growth affects businesses, communities, and land values in the Truckee-Tahoe Region as people push up the hill from both sides of the Sierra Crest--west and east. For example, during the winter local ski areas are heavily dependent on "drive-up" skiers, i.e., those from the Bay Area, Sacramento, and Reno. If snow conditions are weak, as they were this last season, people simply stay home.

McLaughlin wins Book Award for Donner story

The NCPA is an alliance of publishers, authors, and associated members from throughout Northern California. Each year judges from the NCPA board evaluate the content, design, and professionalism of recently published books.

Skiing: Time is Suspended

Ahead of me, Tom Telluride boogied more expertly and enthusiastically, "shaking my assets," he bragged out loud. He had been righteously shaking them since the mid-seventies when we both first moved to Lake Tahoe. It all seems so long ago.

PLACES: Lucky Strike & Lucky Stars in Historic Tonopah

Not only did they serve as a sturdy pack animal and often the miner's only companion for months at a time, they occasionally led their masters to fortune and fame. Such is the legacy of the little town of Tonopah, midway between Reno and Las Vegas, and approximately 300 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe.

Conquering Fear & Mount Everest on Skis

As reported in USA Today, Kit DesLauriers began her journey to fulfill her dream of skiing the seven summits in 2004. In May that year she climbed Alaska's Mount McKinley and valiantly earned the distinction of being the first American woman (2nd woman ever) to ski from North America's highest peak (20,320 feet).

MURDER CONFESSION: The Donner Party--Mid-December 1846

Confession at Alder Creek Site
The 27 people trapped at this site, five miles from Donner Lake, were miserable. The makeshift tents leaked and the pioneers' clothes were often wet. The people ate the last of their beef and had begun to hunt rabbits and mice for food.

STORM: The Donner Party--December 9, 1846

For the emigrants trapped at the Donner Lake and Alder Creek encampments, the severe storm at the end of November had roared into December. It would be the first of three major storm periods during the month. On December 2 the snowfall let up a bit. That night the skies were partly cloudy, which led Patrick Breen to assume that the storm was over.

How Skiing Began at Tahoe--Part 1 of 2

In 1852 a miner named William Wier was killed by a winter avalanche near Pilot Peak in the Sierra Buttes near the town of Laporte, California (in Plumas County). Wier had no skis when he died, while he was working on the mountainside.

Wier's and other deaths proved to miners that skis,

How Skiing Began at Tahoe--Part 2 of 2

An enthusiastic skier since his childhood in Canada, Berry moved to Reno with his wife and family in 1928 to see the West. He found work as a linotype operator at the Nevada State Journal.

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