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Tahoe Weather Watch: Thursday, March 14 “Switcheroo?”
By Giovanni Paredes Hello Springtime weather! Temps around The Lake today in the low 60s are a sure sign of what’s to come in a few weeks. We can thank a surprisingly strong ridge of high pressure for this early taste of Spring. Sacramento Valley temps will range in the 80s this week and will […]
Tahoe Weather Watch March 5: “Incoming”
By Giovanni Paredes Winter is back. (Ed.- Let that set in.) A very well put together pacific storm is bearing down on Northern California. Forecast models are in consensus in dropping 1-2 feet of snow at resort level and 6-9 inches at lake level over a 12-18 hour period once the storm arrives late tonight […]
Updates from Tahoe #Snowcial 2013
By Milena Regos Out & About Marketing Out & About Marketing’s Milena Regos attended Tahoe Snowcial 2013 for TQ–the event, in its fifth year, connects some of the best minds in national social media marketing at Lake Tahoe for speakers, seminars, and, of course, skiing. The overall message was clear–for businesses and brands hoping to […]
Tahoe Weather Watch: Jan. 31 “Sunshine on my Shoulders”
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 […]
Tony Hawk lands in Tahoe
By Kyle Magin At 4 p.m. on Wednesday, July 18, Tony Hawk and his Birdhouse Skateboards posse are scheduled to ride in a demonstration at Woodward Tahoe at Boreal Mountain. You probably know him from his years of professional skateboarding, his Tony Hawk Pro Skater video game series or as that other famous boarder from […]
Winter Fest 2012— Peggy Fleming, the 49ers and curling come to Tahoe
By Kyle Magin Tahoe is nothing if not eclectic. On Friday, Gold Medalist Peggy Fleming gave impromptu skating lessons on the Resort at Squaw Creek skating rink, where just hours later San Francisco 49ers greats past and present practiced their hand at curling alongside members of the U.S. National Team. What a place. The team […]
Q&A with Julia Mancuso; talking lingerie, tiaras, podiums and Sochi
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 […]
Old Guys Rule
To those age-group athletes fretting that their best years are behind them, think again. The good news: If you’ve been hammering the roads, trails, slopes and waterways for most of your adult life, you’ve probably lost only a little of your overall fitness. Take solace in local race results—in cross-country skiing, quinquagenarians regularly trounce athletes half their age. In ultra-marathons, athletes […]
The Sherpettes: Schlepping So You Don’t Have To
Jeni Lammerding is overloaded. She’s halfway into the 7.5-mile trek to Desolation Wilderness’s Lake Schmidell, and the 40-pound, worn canvas backpack she’s carrying is downright cumbersome, its contents bulging and dangling from jerry-rigged bungee cords. They’re an unlikely pair—the externalframe pack having been manufactured before she was born—but Lammerding isn’t shouldering this load for herself. She’s a Sherpette, and the pack belongs to a 75-yearold client, one severely in […]
Q&A with U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein
A native of San Francisco, U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) was elected to the San Francisco County Board of Supervisors in 1969 and served two and a half terms as president of the board. She became mayor of San Francisco in November 1978 following the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk and was subsequently elected to two four-year […]
