Tag: featured
Birding Takes off at Tahoe
Written by Becky Regan Most birders will say one sighting flipped the switch. For Will Richardson, it happened back in high school, when a flash of brilliant blue caught his eye. The color belonged to a bird so magnificent Richardson reasoned it must be an escaped pet. He went home and dug up his […]
My Sierra: Finding Fro
High on Donner Summit sits a trove of untold stories from one of Tahoe’s great writers. Written by David Bunker “Let me grab a flashlight,” says Norm Sayler as he stands poised at the brink of Donner Summit Historical Society’s shadowy basement. He retrieves the light and we descend the stairs. Even when […]
Trigger Man: Chris Ault changed the game long before the Pistol
Written by Sylas Wright Chris Ault doesn’t mind if people credit him solely for his creation of the pistol offense—the hottest new trend in football—and little else. But the Hall of Fame coach can’t help but snicker at the notion. “It doesn’t bother me, but when they start looking back they go, ‘Hey, you guys […]
Go East: Ruby Mountains a Geologic Spectacle, Vacation Destination
Written by Kyle Magin Scrap every desert cliche you’ve formulated about Nevada’s basin-range landscape. Big brown mountains. Barely-arable basins stretching as far as the eye can see. Nevada’s Ruby Mountains buck every notion you have about the outdoors the Silver State has to offer. The 50-plus mile-long range–10 miles wide at its thickest–is a haven […]
“Coppelia” marries comedy and ballet at Sand Harbor
Written by Kyle Magin The bright lights of Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival will again illuminate the storytelling abilities of Sierra Nevada Ballet (SNB) next week as the company sets to perform Coppelia. The ballet classic—a comedy—begins its two-performance run in the Sierra Saturday at University of Nevada, Reno’s Nightingale Concert Hall. It’ll be featured at […]
Tahoe Trailblazing
Inside the evolving art of trailbuilding Written by Greyson Howard Trails etch into packed earth and chipped stone across the Tahoe landscape, zigzagging up the Sierra’s steep peaks, tracing a parallel course to its streams and rivers, dipping into shaded woods and bursting onto sunny meadows. Trails are a part of the region’s landscape, […]
Sierra in the Raw
Making a personal lifestyle out of raw food Written by Julia Mueller When hearing the phrase ‘raw food,’ one may visualize iceberg lettuce, cherry tomatoes and baby carrots—in other words, rabbit food. But going raw means much more than simple salads. The rapidly growing whole food movement is creating strong nutritional awareness and the raw […]
The Man Behind the Bomb
Harvey’s bomb remains a teaching tool for FBI more than 30 years later Written by Matthew Renda In the early morning of August 26, 1980, three men dressed in blue worker’s coveralls wheeled an object roughly the size of a copy machine through a side entrance of Harveys Resort Hotel at Stateline, Nevada, perched on […]
Reaching New Heights: Tahoe’s Big Water Grille
Stellar food, views and service are on the menu at the Big Water Grille Written by Susan D. Rock Full disclosure. The Big Water Grille and I go way back. It is where my husband and I celebrated our engagement with a bottle of Moët White Star, where we tied the knot out on the […]
Born to be Wild: Tahoe’s wildflowers
A primer to some of Tahoe’s wildflower wonders Written by Allison Bender Summer in Tahoe means a spectacular display of colorful blooms: fields of yellow mule ears gazing at the sun, seas of blue lupine and orange poppies nodding in the wind. More than 700 kinds of wildflowers grow in the region, according to Zephyr […]
