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For years, Sports Illustrated has collected and featured bizarre, zany or just plain disappointing weekly reports from the world of sports entitled, “This week’s sign the apocalypse is upon us.” I haven’t read Sports Illustrated recently, but I fondly recall the unique section of the magazine and consciously apply its title in my mind to [...]
Snowshoe enthusiasts have to go high into the mountains for good conditions. The area around Echo Summit is a good place right now. Echo Summit is 7,382 feet in elevation. Just short of the summit if you come from the west is Johnson Pass Road. Take this road and drive 1/2 mile to the Snow Park. The [...]
KIRKWOOD — With over 260 inches of snow for the season allowing the resort to build the cat road to access out-of-bounds terrain, Kirkwood Mountain Resort has launched their signature Expedition:Kirkwood Cat Tours. E:K Cat Tours take advanced skiers and riders on an adventure to hunt down fresh turns with a focus on backcountry education [...]
Residents who use Mosquito Road are more than familiar with the old bridge that crosses the South Fork American River a few miles northeast of Placerville. It’s been there a long, long time.
Now, the Transportation Division of the El Dorado County Community Development Agency is …
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif./Nev. — Following one of the snowiest starts to the season in recent years, Heavenly Mountain Resort, Northstar California Resort and Kirkwood Mountain Resort have a broad offering of learning opportunities for those who want to improve their skiing and riding skills this winter. January is recognized nationally as “Learn to Ski [...]
Snow in the mountains always brings unfettered joy and fun. But Snow in the mountains also means avalanches. Recently, Squaw Valley, Alpine Meadows, and Donner Ski Ranch had avalanches in which skiers were trapped and subsequently died. If avalanches can happen at the ski resorts, what happens in the back country? What happens are avalanches. Some [...]
Just when it looked like a never-ending season of snow, the pineapple express shows up. Lots of moisture coming out of the pacific straight from Hawaii, which when translated means “warm,” meeting up with the low pressure that pushes it onshore. The result is rain, lots of it. The other result is high snow levels. [...]
When it comes to adventure sports films, there’s the edge of insanity and then there’s the abyss. For 10 years the Tahoe Adventure Film Festival has taken its viewers on a celluloid and digital tour filled with rapid-succession footage and no-holds-bar outdoor drama played out across continents, continental shelves and all points in between. The [...]
Farmers and ski area operators have a lot in common. Despite their best planning, ski areas are, ultimately, at the mercy of the weather. Last winter, the weather wasn’t kind to California’s ski areas. Snow needed in November and December didn’t fall until March. By then, skiers and riders had committed to other sports. Things [...]
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE — Visitors to America’s favorite lake (USA Today, Aug. 2012) can expect a winter of major content as Tahoe South (TahoeSouth.com) resorts are poised with prime attractions, sizzling special events and a combination of unmatched outdoor recreation and nighttime amenities. “The destination is on a major uptick with a record-breaking summer and [...]
Book review Book: “Tahoe Trap” Author: Todd Borg Publisher: Thriller Press, 351 pages, published August 2012 Available: Local book stores, Amazon.com $16.95 soft cover or $4.99 Kindle version. It’s a long drive from Stockton to Tahoe, but with author Todd Borg at the controls, it’s a fast one. “Tahoe Trap,” Borg’s 10th and newest novel, [...]
Within the space of a few hours on Wednesday, Sept. 26, the Mountain Democrat had received well over 100 e-mails — copies of letters sent to each of the five members of the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors. Most in a similar format, the writers pleaded, asked politely, urged, cajoled and begged supervisors not to move ahead with planned maintenance on the Rubicon Trail scheduled for Friday, Sept. 28.
Many of the letters came from off-roading clubs and residents of Northern California, but a significant number were sent by folks from Utah, Georgia and parts in between.
There’s a great engineering accomplishment near El Dorado County that was once described as rivaling the Great Wall of China and the Pyramids of Egypt. Its construction changed our nation and world history and yet, today it is mostly hidden and forgotten. The transcontinental railroad is a storied chapter in the history of the West. [...]
I was intrigued and just plain astounded when reading staff writer Wendy Schultz’ account of Sierra Nevada Phillips. What impressed me most was the fact that Sierra bought the Rubicon Springs in 1888 from George and John Hunsucker for $5,500 in gold coins. Assuming those were $20 double eagle gold pieces, the gold content alone [...]
Rick Santorum was screeching the other night about how our American Republic is no more, and only Mitt Romney (now) can restore it. He used to say only he could do that but of course that’s a whole other issue. The illegal,” unconstitutional Obamacare” was Armageddon a year ago, according to John Boehner. Then it [...]
Editor’s note — Agenda 21 is a topic of conversation at Tea Party meetings and coffee shops. This is Part IV of a four-part analysis series examining the issues associated with Agenda 21. Part I ran May 18, Part II ran Monday and Part III ran Wednesday. “In the next century, nations as we [...]
Searchers located and are in the process of retrieving the body of a skier, who has been missing in Mono County for nearly two weeks. Boris Avdeev, 31, of Ann Arbor, Mich., an experienced backcountry skier, has not been heard from since setting out on his solo backcountry ski trip on April 19. His body [...]
From the early snow in Autumn to the closing day at Tahoe ski resorts, you’ve been heading up Highway 50 for fun on the slopes and in the back-country. Through rain, wind and all kinds of snow storms over Echo Summit, you and yours have made it to Sierra-at-Tahoe, or into the Lake Tahoe Basin, [...]
The ski resorts are absolutely thrilled with the new snow that’s fallen. In conversations with Sierra-at-Tahoe’s Steven Hemphill, PR Director, the news is simple: continued good conditions, and a season that has gained some additional time. Back-country skiers are finally finding enough snow to make it worth their time. For those of us who stick [...]
Heavenly Mountain Resort announced that 47 local non-profit organizations will receive cash grants and in-kind donations for the 2011-12 season through the Vail Resorts Echo program. “We are very proud to be able to give back to the local communities where our employees live, work and recreate. These local non-profits should be recognized and rewarded [...]