Category: Outdoors

Tahoe Weather Watch: Feb. 5 “Dust for the Crust”

| February 6, 2013 | 0 Comments

Ed’s note: Welcome to Tahoe Weather Watch, TQ’s weekly look ahead to the weekend travel and snow forecast. We’ve teamed with www.nevadacountyweather.com‘s Giovanni Paredes to bring you this  feature. Paredes has been an official National Weather Service Weather Observer since 2001 and has operated a professional weather station since 2002. Each week we’ll look at resort […]

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Tahoe Weather Watch: Jan. 31 “Sunshine on my Shoulders”

| January 31, 2013 | 0 Comments

  Ed’s note: Welcome to Tahoe Weather Watch, TQ’s weekly look ahead to the weekend travel and snow forecast. We’ve teamed with www.nevadacountyweather.com‘s Giovanni Paredes to bring you this  feature. Paredes has been an official National Weather Service Weather Observer since 2001 and has operated a professional weather station since 2002. Each week we’ll look at […]

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Tahoe Weather Watch: Jan. 24

| January 24, 2013 | 0 Comments

Ed’s note: Welcome to Tahoe Weather Watch, TQ’s brand-new, weekly look ahead to the weekend travel and snow forecast. We’ve teamed with www.nevadacountyweather.com‘s Giovanni Paredes to bring you this new feature. Paredes has been an official National Weather Service Weather Observer since 2001 and has operated a professional weather station since 2002. Each week we’ll […]

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Tall Apres Ski Tales

| January 4, 2013 | 0 Comments

Skiers and riders are known to tell a “big fish” tale or two at the bar after a day on the slopes. Here’s a few favorite stretched apres truths: “I blew out my snowboard bindings in Heart Chute today I was going so hard.” Translation: “I’ve been going so hard at In-N-Out that I put on 80 […]

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Q&A with Jeremy Jones

| December 5, 2012 | 0 Comments

  By Seth Lightcap North Tahoe professional snowboarder Jeremy Jones could double for a tight rope–walking circus juggler. The balancing act of business, politics and play that this 37–year–old father of two pulls off has made him one of the most highly respected athletes in the action sports world. Ten years of daring first descents […]

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The Dark Side of the Snow

| October 4, 2012 | 0 Comments

By Seth Lightcap Backcountry skiing and riding are increasingly popular around Tahoe, but to avoid an experience like this one, avalanche training and awareness are a necessity.     I got served a stiff lesson about avalanche danger last winter. The punishment took place while snowboarding in the backcountry of Hakuba, Japan. On our first […]

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Best Spots to Shack Up in the Backcountry

| October 3, 2012 | 0 Comments

By Seth Lightcap Historic Sierra Club digs offer a rustic rooftop overhead.   Whether you’re prime for a backcountry adventure or just keen for a lodging experience of yesteryear, the Tahoe Sierra Club lodges and huts provide an escape route to the wilderness unlike anything else in Tahoe. Although it’s largely BYO linens and food, […]

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Natural Rythms: Winter

| October 3, 2012 | 0 Comments

By Will Richardson Small but clever, these little creatures have adapted to winter’s snows.   Among the mammals that winter-over in Tahoe, squirrels and chipmunks are perhaps the most numerous, and interesting, employing a variety of strategies to make it through the long, snowy season. Like all creatures that stick around through the harshest months […]

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Mountain Master

| October 3, 2012 | 0 Comments

By Jen Schmidt Resort illustrator James Niehues captures Tahoe’s great ski mountains.   Early in his career, alpine resort and panoramic illustrator James Niehues found himself on the slopes of Alta during a project. Although he is a native Coloradoan, his still-developing skiing technique and five inches of fresh left him a little overwhelmed. “You’d […]

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Tough Mudder Preview

| September 21, 2012 | 0 Comments

By Kyle Magin TQ Managing Editor   Are you ready for Tough Mudder? The all-out obstacle course dreamed up by ex-British Special Forces and laid out across 11.38 miles at Northstar California Resort this weekend? TQ checked out the course for a preview Friday morning. For a little background, Tough Mudder is a 3-year old […]

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