It’s never too early to get stoked for the coming ski season. Here’s a good way to waste some time for all you office-bound suckers like me: a round-up of the 2010 ski film trailers from TGR, Matchstick, Warren Miller, Powderwhore and etc (in no particular order). There’s some good stuff in here. I’m particularly psyched for [...]

2010 marks the second year of the now annual Wanderlust Festival in Squaw Valley near Lake Tahoe. Wanderlust offers a combination of some of the world’s best yoga practitioners and a variety of musical performers, all set in nature and the beautiful mountains that surround Squaw.
My friend, Sonja, and I arrived late Friday night [...]

Kirkwood was 100 percent back online today after an unexpected New Year’s Day power outage shut down the resort through Saturday, and kept all but four lifts closed on Sunday.

With the start of the ski season, I thought it prudent to do a roundup of avalanche resources available online and in the Sierra Nevada region.
Now you have no excuse. Go take that avalanche course you’ve been putting off. It’ll make the backcountry more fun because you’ll be able to geek out on your snow [...]

I spent the weekend at our place in north Tahoe watching more than four feet of snow fall in just a few days. That’s a fantastic start to the season and should make for a solid base at area resorts and in the backcountry.
And there’s more precip on the way. Just pray that the temps [...]

I went out and saw Warren Miller’s Dynasty here in San Francisco last night. The film features Tahoe and Tahoe skiers right out of the gate in the opening sequences of the show.
After the requisite sales pitch for ski passes and salvos to Warren Miller sponsors and such, the curtains went up. Cheers erupted from [...]

Kudos to the Northern Sierra Partnership, an effort to buy undeveloped land in the Sierra Nevada in order to preserve them for future generations before any large scale building starts to occur.
Via Mercury News:

Jim and Becky Morgan of Los Altos Hills — he, the retired CEO of Applied Materials and she, a former Santa Clara [...]

Back in October, Mammoth had it’s second earliest opening day ever. Then they had to shutter the joint due to warm weather. Now, they’re slated to reopen November 7.
But if you’re in dire need of snow, you can head up to Boreal in Tahoe. They’re now open 7 days a week.
Granted, only a single run [...]

Ty Dayberry, a South Lake Tahoe local and member of Heavenly Ski Resort’s “High Roller Team,” is featured in the new extreme telemark skiing film, The Freeheel Life.
The film documents the travels and descents of some of the world’s best freeheel skiers.
Way to go California athletes! The Sierra Nevada serves as a world class training [...]

While Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger promised to keep California State Parks open, he didn’t stress how drastic some changes would be to deal with the 14.2 million dollar reduction in the Park budget.
A summary of the service reductions in store for most of California’s 278 state parks was created by the park superintendants to highlight the major [...]