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Northstar readies for Tahoe Tough Mudder 2013
By Kyle Magin This weekend, people will pay to have themselves shocked, dragged through mud, propelled over walls and dunked in freezing cold water. The notoriously difficult Tough Mudder obstacle challenge–a run through 20-plus military-style obstacles over an 11 mile course–kicks off at 8 a.m. Saturday and continues throughout the weekend at Northstar California. It’s […]
Weekend Outlook: July 3-7
Welcome to our very special July 4 weekend edition of Weekend Outlook! We hope you all are having a great holiday so far! We can’t possibly encapsulate all the fun stuff going on at The Lake and Truckee in this week’s installment, but here are a few events that caught our eye. Wednesday Enjoy […]
Les Misérables: From the Big Screen to the Village Green
Written by Kyle Magin In less than a week, the 50-member cast of the Tahoe Players’ production of Les Misérables takes the stage at Incline Village’s Village Green. Backed by an 18 piece orchestra including members of the Reno Philharmonic, it’ll mark the first Tahoe-area performance of the beloved classic by the Incline-based performing arts […]
Weekend Outlook: June 27-30
The second full weekend of summer has tons of fun in store in and around Tahoe. If you’re not already here, point the car up the hill and hit the gas, because it’s going to be HOT in the valleys this weekend. Thankfully, it’ll be beautiful up here, perfect swimming weather is in the forecast. […]
Culinary Delights on Tahoe’s West Shore
West Shore & Homewood continue to unveil exciting food news Written by Kyle Magin Earlier this year Homewood’s West Shore Café made a splash with two hires from Truckee’s Martis Camp, Executive Chef Mike Davis and GM Stacie Krenicki. The resort and restaurant are both bringing about some exciting culinary changes on Tahoe’s quiet West […]
Tahoe Tough
From Ultra runs to obstacle courses, Tahoe’s best races challenge body and mind Written by Justin Broglio When this article went to print, athletes training for Lake Tahoe’s first Ironman Triathlon had 26 weeks until race day. While that may seem a long time, it’s nothing compared to the training schedule prescribed to take on […]
Giant Goldfish Indicated Big Problems for Tahoe
Written by Kyle Magin The last time something gold made this kind of news in California, it sparked a rush. But a 4.2 pound, 14-plus inch goldfish pulled out of Tahoe early in 2013 sparked little but alarm this time around. Researchers from the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), led by scientist Deepak Chandra, pulled […]
‘Battleborn’ Book Review
Short story collection finds life amidst Nevada’s unforgiving landscape Written by Matthew Renda Joan Didion wrote: “A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.” Claire Vaye Watkins, a 28-year-old writer, […]
Teeing Off
Disc golf comes to the “fore” front of Tahoe sports Written by Kyle Magin Brandon Uppham sized up a shot on Incline Village’s disc golf course and cocked the hard plastic disc across his body. From a half-crouch—and forgetting, or not caring, to shed his over-the-shoulder disc-carrying satchel—he unleashed his disc low and straight through […]
Desolation: Cherished and Guarded
Popular Tahoe wilderness ages well under the close eye of devoted stewards Written by Sylas Wright Desolation is a relative term. In the case of Lake Tahoe’s prize slice of backcountry real estate, the designated expanse of scenic, jagged peaks, rock-coated valleys and lakes of gin-clear quality earned the moniker from its barren appearance—a land […]
