Category: People

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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Getting kids on Tahoe’s slopes

| January 10, 2012 | 0 Comments

To many families, winter in Tahoe means ski lessons, season passes and bluebird days together at a favorite resort. But not to all: With rising poverty rates, teenage obesity at an all-time high and more single-parent homes than ever before, not all kids have the means or opportunity to learn a winter sport. Fortunately, there […]

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Q&A with Julia Mancuso; talking lingerie, tiaras, podiums and Sochi

| January 5, 2012 | 0 Comments

Raised on the slopes of Squaw Valley USA, skier Julia Mancuso has three Olympic medals (more than any other American female alpine skier) and a fistful of World Championship and World Cup podium finishes to her name. When not flying down a snow-covered mountain, “Super Jules,” as she is known to her fellow U.S. Ski […]

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Daron Rahlves gets you pumped for ski season

| January 5, 2012 | 0 Comments

Four-time Olympian, most decorated American male downhill and Super G skier and winner of the legendary Hahnenkamm, Sugar Bowl Ambassador and Truckee resident Daron Rahlves still hits it hard every winter. But the secret of his success is the off-season: “The more you do in summer, the less you’re going to be sore and get […]

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Kissed by Falling Stars

| July 1, 2011 | 0 Comments

T.S. Eliot’s character, Prufrock, measured out his life in coffee spoons. I’ve been measuring mine in meteor showers. My husband and I waited for last summer’s Perseids’ rain of fire ensconced on lawn chairs outside our home in the foothills of the Sierra. As we searched the sky for the first wondrous flashes, I thought back to earlier meteor […]

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On the Road to Find Jack Wilson

| May 6, 2011 | 0 Comments

It took me 35 years to close the loop between a term paper that I had written as a high school senior and the grave of Jack Wilson. That report was about the Ghost Dance, first practiced by the Northern Nevada Paiute Indians in 1889 in the Mason Valley, not far from Carson City. Its […]

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Lake Tahoe’s Mark Shuey Teaches Martial Arts with a Cane

| May 6, 2011 | 0 Comments

It’s hard to imagine exactly what Mark Shuey means when he says that a cane is not a crutch. That is, until he (gently) wraps the handle of said implement around your neck. A Southern Californian by birth, general contractor by trade and world-class martial artist by hobby, Shuey moved to Incline Village in 1977. […]

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Best alternative use for a cane

| May 6, 2011 | 0 Comments

It’s hard to imagine exactly what Mark Shuey means when he says that a cane is not a crutch. That is, until he (gently) wraps the handle of said implement around your neck. A Southern Californian by birth, general contractor by trade and world-class martial artist by hobby, Shuey moved to Incline Village in 1977. […]

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War of the Roses

| December 2, 2010 | 0 Comments

By defining the division between opposing sides with an actual physical or geographic border—the proverbial “line in the sand”—in the hope of promoting resolution through separation, the discourse may only become darker. Consider the symbolism of the Mason-Dixon Line or the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River, dividing the Hatfields and McCoys during their […]

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The Slopes Beyond the Ropes

| December 2, 2010 | 0 Comments

Loosely defined, sidecountry is legal out-of-bounds areas or backcountry terrain that is accessed from a ski resort. Over the past decade, sidecountry skiing and riding has exploded in popularity in North America. Liberal boundary policies, the proliferation of fat skis (which increase flotation in deep snow) and improved avalanche awareness have helped fuel the rapid […]

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