Aikido - the art of conflict resolution - comes to Truckee

First Friday at Brickelltown is back... just in time for fall

9/02/10, 8:18 am, By Alanna Hughes

• 4 p.m. Friday in Brickelltown
• Bring your cruiser bike (cheaper/better peeps than Burning Man)

Ski Porn season kicks off at Squaw Sept. 18 with Standard premiere

8/31/10, 9:22 pm, By S. Cowley

• North Shore-based snowboard heavies preimere 'The Storming' Saturday, Sept. 18
• Monster'll be there too... 

Sorry Burning Man - it's all about the Ski Loft Tent Sale

8/30/10, 7:52 pm, Staff Report

• 8 a.m. Friday
• Bring all your pennies... (what's left of 'em)

REI Summer - Ticker

Basin Bargain Basement - The bargain of bargains

8/29/10, 8:59 pm, By A. Pridgen

• $105k for starter condo in KB
• Yes, we toured a similar unit in '06 for more than $300k ...actually, maybe it WAS this unit

Bomber pre-season ski sales from local manufacturers

8/25/10, 7:50 am, Staff Report

• From Praxis Powderboards to Moment Rubys ...to a surprise entry
• It's time to buy local... buy new

Skiing is no more

8/22/10, 11:47 am, Staff Report

• RIP Skiing Magazine
• ...Are you next, SKI?

Date set for 7th annual Downtown Truckee Wine Walk And Shop

8/22/10, 9:25 am, Switchback PR

• Filling up that fall calendar yet?!
• Well, here's where to start

REI Summer - Ticker

Squaw to host SATELite Festival in September

8/22/10, 7:28 am, By A. Richmond

• New outdoor(ish) event pronounced 'satellite' ...not 'Sate-lite' like we orig. thought
• ...Not 100 percent sure what it is — but ncludes wine, so we'll be there

Tahoe Mountain Sports gets you warm for Ski Loft tent sale

8/20/10, 6:44 pm, By Lis Korb

• First come tent sales... then ski porn premiers
• Then (gulp) snow... are you ready?!

Legendary Incline bear featured in WSJ

8/18/10, 8:31 pm, Staff Report

• Free BUBBA
• That's right - It's our fault... not the bear's... but is that what the Journal thinks?!

Trail Building Backcountry Camps

8/17/10, 8:49 pm, TRTA

• Get on those trails
• ...and get your build on Saturday and Sunday (and again Labor Day weekend)

REI Summer - Ticker

Win an iPad from IVGID

8/15/10, 7:03 pm, Staff Report

• Golf, ski, beach, compute
• repeat

Squaw creates new top marketing position... sale rumors spark again

8/10/10, 8:18 pm, Staff Report

• Wait, Squaw CREATED a position...
• Ok, something's definitely going down... (25-year industry vet Scott Clarkson tapped as VP of Marketing and Sales)

Jim's trip ...halfway... round The Rim

8/07/10, 1:16 pm, By. A. Pridgen

• Hammerel raises triple his goal amt. to benefit the TRT
• ...and tears up his knee

Volunteer trail-building workdays with the Tahoe Rim Trail Association

8/05/10, 7:45 am, TRTA

• You heard about Jim Hammerel's mission to speed-traverse the TRT
• Now you can pitch in too 

REI Summer - Ticker

Goodbye Norm

8/03/10, 8:08 pm, By A. Pridgen

• The Godfather of Incline, Norm Rosenberg, passes - he was 92
• Incline's left-leaning champion leaves legacy ...starting with the library

Test drive a Tesla... before it's too late

8/01/10, 9:30 pm, By A. Pridgen

• Tesla, the Palo Alto-based electric car company has gone through more than $300 million VC $
• ...but still hasn't tapped into Uncle Sam's reserves for the Model S - go check it out at the Hyatt

Sugar Bowl dining room and Belt Room Bar open for business

7/30/10, 10:22 am, By John Monson

• Good grub, great views
• And nothing beats Belt Room post PCT

Ultimate Frisbee - ultimate course

7/27/10, 8:56 pm, By A. Richmond

• Squaw opens disc golf course
• Signature hole (no. 4) has 1080' downhill... wow

REI Summer - Ticker

Squaw's MTB park open for first time since '03

7/23/10, 7:22 pm, By Amelia Richmond

• 2k feet of single-track
• 'K, we're in

Remembering Kenny Guinn

7/22/10, 10:08 pm, Staff Report

• The man who created the Milennium Scholarship and SNPLMA passed away Thursday
• Guinn, who oversaw Nevada during its most prosperous years, was 73

Lokal boy makes good - former PlumpJack star Edge shines in Sonoma

7/20/10, 6:23 pm, By A. Pridgen

• Rick Edge takes saucy edge down to downtown Sonoma
• Lokal is the (new) place to be and PlumpJack alum makes it so

Tahoe skier visits were estimated to be up 17 percent last winter

7/19/10, 8:40 am, Staff Report

• Numbers of skiers on the hill increased - but overall spending stayed modest
• Cheap passes the plan again for 2010-'11

REI Summer - Ticker

Cushing steps down from Squaw post ...rumors of sale sparked

7/13/10, 6:06 pm, Staff Report

• Former Intrawest exec takes over
• ...Rumor mill turning overtime: is Cushing family getting ready to bounce?

TRPA's Asian clam bake

7/11/10, 9:19 pm, By Jeff Cowen

• $1.4 million effort to eradicate invasive species from the lake...
• And it involves (no joke) laying a rubber mat on the lake's floor... hi-tech

Kids' zip line at Squaw ...Boo ya

7/08/10, 5:12 pm, By A. Richmond

• KT zip line
• What about for the grown-ups?!

Just like that ...red flags are up

7/06/10, 6:22 pm, Staff Report

• Three-year anniversary of Angora looms ever-present
• Thunderstorms Wednesday/Thursday portend danger

REI Summer - Ticker

Nevada County approves PR firm's contract the same week it OKs budget cuts

6/30/10, 9:19 pm, Staff Report

• Wait a minute - you're saying Tahoe will spend more than a million dollars this year on, sloganeering...
• Meantime, budget cuts include child care, welfare-to-work and MediCal programs ...nice

Truckee's Lautner drops a PCT hiking book

6/28/10, 8:55 pm, Staff Report

• 32 eco-friendly trips on the Sierra stretch of the PCT ...with GPS coordinates
• Two thumbs up - pick it up...

Lake Tahoe Based Russian-American Partnership turns 20

6/24/10, 11:27 am, By TBI

• Tahoe-Baikal Institute celebrates two decades  of watershed protection and cultural exchange
• Political and economic ups and downs notwithstanding

Tour de Nez photo gallery

6/22/10, 8:20 pm

• The weekend that was from Reno to Northstar
• And lots of Nash

REI Summer - Ticker

Rebuild the Rim Trail every summer Saturday

6/11/10, 9:07 pm, TRTA

• Start summer right by giving your most precious gift
• ...Your time

TRPA tries to clarify

6/01/10, 8:30 pm, By Dennis Oliver

• So, what, if anything, does this have to do with Boulder Bay?!
• ...More importantly how 'bout that casino (strip club?) corridor...

Opinion ...TRPA ensures Tahoe times they area a-changin'

5/22/10, 8:35 pm, By Ann Nichols

• Density to increase under proposed TRPA regional plan
• But, will they build it (or will they come?)

TAUs on the table from TRPA

5/14/10, 10:08 pm, Staff Report

• If you don't understand the headline
• ...Go the the May 26 meeting and you'll see puh-lenty

REI Summer - Ticker

Cal Neva now in TRPA doghouse

5/09/10, 6:49 pm, Staff Report

• TRPA will handle foreclosed property with kid gloves over more than a decade of flunking its eco report card
• Time to blow everything up but the casino floor, Sinatra Showroom, the lakefront cabins and the Indian Room

Celebrate National Trails Day with the Tahoe Rim Trail

5/06/10, 5:33 pm, TRTA

• Build a trail
• ...Get a free lunch

Save Martis Valley - one click at a time

5/04/10, 7:13 pm, By Renee Deinken

• Well, it's not like Martis Valley is in any danger of getting developed by broke-ass East/West
• ...But still good to preserve; Check out the new site

LTVA spends almost a mil. on slogan ending in preposition

5/02/10, 8:21 pm, By A. Pridgen

• That's right, your new slogan to lure Affliction-wearing d-bags to Stateline's new strip club
• ...'Get your vacation on' (ohh noo). Inside: Our five (free) slogan suggestions ...Holla

REI Summer - Ticker

Cost of doing nothing too high for Tahoe

4/29/10, 8:22 pm, By Joanne Marchetta

• If you can make it through TRPA director's tome...
• We'll have resident feedback for you Friday

No downhill slide for Diamond Peak

4/09/10, 7:00 am, Staff Report

• While others founder
• ...DP in the black and breaking ground on new $4 million admin/ticket/locker/child ski center building

Foreclosed Cal Neva casino goes dark ...for good

3/24/10, 10:32 pm, By A. Pridgen

• One year after 'no-sale' at a foreclosure auction and interim management team shuts down Nevada's most legendary casino
• ...Sad, sad day... Casino doors to shut March 31 - rest of Basin gaming on life support

And yes ...the KB roundabouts were originally scheduled to be complete this summer

1/27/10, 9:35 pm, Staff Report

• Tahoe Regional Planning Agency board votes unanimously (again) to approve three-lane/roundabouts in KB
• ...Yes, you've heard that (here) before

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