Climbers, skiers, snowboarders, and snowshoers alike are delighting in the recent storms in the Sierras creating that absolutely delicious playground of snow. With the opportunity to revel in the winter backcountry comes the responsibility to leave the places we explore as pristine as possible.
I, for one, have been chastised for not being “Leave No [...]

Bill Martin, Chief Meteorologist at KTVU Channel 2, explains what El Niño means for the Sierra ski forecast.

In November 2007, a man died after climbing Cathedral Peak in Yosemite with his partner. They expected to return the same day but were trapped on the descent when it began to snow, and one climber succumbed to hypothermia. In June 2008, a man died on Rainier after a freak blizzard caught three [...]

Homewood is doing some simple, but powerful, things to keep Tahoe blue.
They’ve begun an effort to keep sediment from running right down the hill and into the lake.  If you haven’t been to Homewood, it sits right across the street from Lake Tahoe, so any intense rain washes sediment from the hill down into the [...]

YES YES YES! Man I’m really getting itchy feet for winter. Just signed lease for Tahoe ski house. Boreal ski area had it’s earliest opening day ever. Now lets’s get a good, fat base. Sounds like we’re on our way…
Via AP and Mercury News:
RENO, Nev.—The first winter storm of the season slammed into the Sierra [...]