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Sierra Avalanche Center is Our Backcountry Lifeline

January 15, 2023
    FeaturedSkiing

Backcountry skiing and riding are sweet! Avalanches are not. Don’t get caught. […]

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Skiing with your dog at South Lake Tahoe

Skiing with Your Dog at Lake Tahoe

January 14, 2023
    FeaturedSkiing

While you can’t take your dog to most cross-country ski areas in Lake Tahoe and Truckee, you can take them on a few developed trails and almost anywhere else. Here […]

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Did you know…Lake Tahoe has an Underwater State Park?

January 4, 2023
    HistoryWater Sports

Why would anyone scuba dive in Lake Tahoe?

There’s nothing to see – right?

Wrong. […]

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Olympic Nordic Trails at Sugar Pine Point State Park

January 2, 2023
    HistorySkiing

Did you know that Sugar Pine Point State Park is the site of the first-ever Olympic Biathlon event held as part of the 1960 Winter Olympic Games at Squaw? […]

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Jamie Anderson, Slopestyle Phenom

December 30, 2022
    PeopleSkiing

Jamie Anderson, a South Lake Tahoe native, is easily considered one of the top female snowboarders in the world. And she’s headed to the 2012 Winter X Games along with […]

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Long Live the Real Skiers by Gary Bell

December 24, 2022
    SkiingStories

So you have your new super fat twin tip skis or that new board with rocker.

You can ride switch all day long, throw down corked threes in the big pipe, you’ve dropped the cross on Mount Tallac, won a race or two during gay week and skied Powderhouse in the full moon! […]

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So Lake Tahoe Christmas Bird Count

December 23, 2022
    Outside

The South Lake Tahoe Christmas Bird Count is your chance to do some birding in the winter, and contribute to the largest, longest running citizen science program in the world. Novices […]

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Did you know…Kirkwood has a Cookbook?

December 22, 2022
    SkiingWriters

Kirkwood is well known for skiing. And for its local dishes? You be the judge. […]

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Ice Skating at Tahoe

    OutsideMountaineering

Rarely can you skate on Caples Lake. But the Xmas Valley/Kirkwood crew has been getting it all over Lake Tahoe lately. The gang has been taking advantage of the cold […]

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Robb Gaffney M.D. Author & Ski Icon

    PeopleSkiing

Robb Gaffney M.D. began studying the slopes of Squaw Valley when he was in college. He has skied Squaw for more than 25 years and is the author of Squallywood – A Guide to Squaw Valley’s Most Exposed Lines. […]

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Exposed Ski Lines caught in Squallywood Book by Robb Gaffney

December 15, 2022
    SkiingWriters

If you liked the 1st edition, you’ll love the 2nd.

Squallywood

A Guide to Squaw Valley’s Most Exposed Lines by Robb Gaffney, MD.

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Ty Dayberry. Freeheel skier extraordin – AIR.

December 13, 2022
    PeopleSkiing

He started telemark skiing at age 10. By 21, he’s taken his freeheel art to a higher level. […]

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