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JAN. 24-FEB. 6, 2019

FAMILY FUN GUIDE WINTER EDITION

RAILROAD EARTH’S FRESH TRACKS

NEVADA’S UNDEFEATED SKI SEASON // BLUES BROTHERS BENEFIT FOR INNERRHYTHMS // THE JOYS OF HOT CHOCOLATE // DRAMATIC VIEWS AWAIT ON CASTLE ROCK //

The Science of Cocktails Stir things up at the UC Davis Tahoe Science Center. Enjoy science-themed cocktails with enlightening activities and demonstrations. Get crafty this year with DIY stations

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EVENTS Jan 27–29 Women of Winter Camp Feb 7 Alpenglow Winter Speaker Series Feb 16–17 Sunset Happy Hour Feb 16–24 Kid-O-Rama Feb 18 Big Truck Day Feb 19 Après S’mores Feb 20 SAF Peak2Peak Family Fun Race March 17 Pain McShlonkey March 29–31 WinterWonderGrass Tahoe March 31 The Mothership Classic Saturdays: Après Music Series Winter Fireworks Please check squawalpine.com for most up to date calendar of events.

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… the mighty Sierra, miles in height, and so gloriously colored and so radiant, it seemed not clothed with light but wholly composed of it, like the wall of some celestial city... Then it seemed to me that the Sierra should be called, not the Nevada or Snowy Range, but the Range of Light.

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Snowmageddon and Januburied are being used to describe the amazing conditions throughout the Tahoe Sierra thanks to a flurry of snowstorms that swept through the region in January, including the most recent series that brought up to 7 feet of snow in only seven days. Accumulations vary by region from 5 feet at local ski resorts to up to 7 feet on Donner Summit. Visit TheTahoeWeekly.com for our most recent Powder Report with conditions for every downhill and Nordic resort in the Tahoe Sierra.

Not only are the conditions epic, but the snowpack is deep with the Tahoe Basin now at 126 percent of normal as of press time on Jan. 21. Why is that important? That snowpack will feed the streams and lakes of the Sierra in the spring when it melts, which in turn makes for a great rafting season on the Truckee River, benefits our ecosystem and provides drinking water for Northern Nevada cities.

Family Fun Guide All of this great snow makes for perfect conditions to get out and enjoy sledding, skiing, making snowmen and enjoying all that winter has to offer for families. Our readers have been asking for more coverage on family friendly activities, events and outings in the Tahoe Sierra, so we debuted our new Family Fun section in our last edition and for this edition, we’ve put together our inaugural Family Fun Guide with everything from tips for making your own backyard sled hill to our first Kids Ultimate Tahoe Winter Bucket List.

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Average Water Temperature: 42.1˚F

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Natural rim: 6,223’ Lake Tahoe sits at an average elevation of between 6,223’ and 6,229.1’. The top 6.1’ of water is controlled by the dam in Tahoe City and holds up to 744,600 acre feet of water.

Size: 22 miles long, 12 miles wide Lake Tahoe is as long as the English Channel is wide.

Shoreline: 72 miles Lake Tahoe has a surface area of 191 square miles.

If Lake Tahoe were emptied, it would submerge California under 15 inches of water.

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How the lake was formed

About 3 to 5 million years ago, the valley that would become the Tahoe Basin sank between parallel fractures in the Earth’s crust as the mountains on either side continued to rise. A shallow lake began to form in the resulting valley.

Roughly 2 to 3 million years ago, erupting volcanoes blocked the outlet, forcing the lake to rise hundreds of feet above its current elevation, and eventually eroded down to near its current outlet.

Between 1 million and 20,000 years ago, large masses of glacial ice covered the west side of the Tahoe Basin. Current geologic theory suggests an earthen berm (moraine) left by a receding glacier near Olympic Valley acted as a dam, causing the lake level to rise and then draw down rapidly when the dam catastrophically failed. Between

7,000 and 15,000 years ago, a four-mile segment of the West Shore collapsed into the Lake causing a massive submerged debris avalanche, widening the Lake by three miles and creating McKinney Bay.1 The Tahoe Basin is mostly granite, with little topsoil, and therefore few nutrients have washed into the lake to promote the growth of algae and other organisms that make water murky.

As well, 40 percent of the precipitation falling into the Tahoe Basin lands directly on the lake. The remaining precipitation drains through the decomposed granite soil found in marshes and meadows, creating a good filtering system for water.

Urbanization of the Tahoe Basin has eliminated 75 percent of its marshes, 50 percent of its meadows and 35 percent of its steam zone habitats. About 85 percent of all wildlife in the Tahoe Basin use these habitats.

About the lake Lake Tahoe is located in the states of California and Nevada, with two-thirds in California. It is fed by 63 streams and two hot springs.

The Truckee River is Tahoe’s only outlet and flows from the dam in Tahoe City east through Reno and eventually drains into Pyramid Lake in the Nevada desert.

However, water releases are not permitted when the lake surface level falls below the natural rim at 6,223.’ The lowest lake level on record (measured since 1900) was 6,220.26’ on Nov. 30, 1992.

The Lake of the Sky appears blue in color as other colors in the light spectrum are absorbed and blue light is scattered back.

Lake clarity The University of California, Davis, operates the Tahoe Environmental Resarch Center, which monitors, among other

things, the clarity of Lake Tahoe. Clarity has been measured since 1968 and was first recorded at 102.4’.

The waters of Lake Tahoe were clear to an average depth of 59.7 in 2017. The lowest average depth on record was 64.1’ in 1997. Lake Tahoe is losing clarity because of algae growth fueled by nitrogen and phosphorus.

Lake Tahoe’s discovery The first recorded discovery of Lake Tahoe by white explorers was on Feb. 14, 1844, when John Charles Frémont and Charles Preuss spotted the lake from atop Red Lake Peak. The lake went through several names before it was officially named Tahoe in 1945.

Tahoe is a mispronunciation of the first two syllables of the Washoe’s word for the lake – Da ow a ga, which means “edge of the lake.” 

Learn more: Visit the Tahoe Science Center in Incline Village or tahoesciencecenter.org. Sources: Tahoe Environmental Research Center, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Forest Service, “Tahoe Place Names” and David Antonucci (denoted by 1).

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West Shore

One of the lake’s famous natural sites, a volcanic plug on the West Shore. TART

Explore Tahoe

South Lake Tahoe

(530) 542-2908 | cityofslt.us

Urban Trailhead at base of Heavenly. South Tahoe

Fannette Island

Emerald Bay

(530) 541-3030 | parks.ca.gov

Lake Tahoe’s only island, home to an old tea house.

Heavenly

South Lake Tahoe

(775) 586-7000 | skiheavenly.com

Enjoy a 2.4-mile ride on the gondola to the top with panoramic views. South Tahoe

Hellman-Ehrman Mansion

West Shore

$10 parking | parks.ca.gov (530) 525-7232 Park | (530) 583-9911 Tours Located in Sugar Pine Point State Park.

(Open for tours in the summer.) TART

High Camp (800) 403-0206 | squawalpine.com

Olympic Valley

Aerial tram rides, Olympic Heritage Museum, ice skating, events and more. Ticket required. TART

Kings Beach northtahoebusiness.org

North Shore

Truckee Settled in 1863 as a stagecoach stop. TART

Vikingsholm Castle (530) 541-3030 | (530) 525-9529 ADA parks.ca.gov or vikingsholm.com

Emerald Bay

Watson Cabin

Tahoe City

(530) 583-1762 | northtahoemuseums.org

The oldest building in Tahoe City and on the National Register of Historic Places. TART

MUSEUMS Donner Memorial Visitor Center (530) 582-7892 | parks.ca.gov

Truckee

The Donner Memorial State Park features exhibits and artifacts on the Donner Party. TART

donnersummithistoricalsociety.org

Soda Springs

Gatekeeper’s Museum Daily | (530) 583-1762 northtahoemuseums.org

(530) 587-5437 | kidzonemuseum.org

Tahoe Art League Gallery South Lake Tahoe

Features Washoe artifacts and exhibits on early industry and settlers. South Tahoe

visittahoecity.com

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Incline Village

South Lake Tahoe 3066 Lake Tahoe Blvd. (530) 541-5255

Stateline 169 Hwy. 50 (775) 588-4591

Tahoe City 100 N. Lake Blvd. (530) 581-6900 Measured in Cubic Feet Per Second (CFS)

Truckee 10065 Donner Pass Rd. (Depot)

(530) 587-8808

Free | (775) 881-7566 | tahoesciencecenter.org

U.S. Forest Service | Incline Village

Exhibits include a virtual research boat, biology lab, 3D movies and docent-led tours. TART

855 Alder Ave. (775) 831-0914 (Wed.-Fri.)

truckeedonnerrailroadsociety.com

Truckee

Exhibits include the train’s role in logging, fighting snow on the railway, the role of Chinese emigrants and a children’s area. TART

(530) 426-3313, ext. 113 | auburnskiclub.org Showcasing the history of skiing. TART

U.S. Forest Service | South Lake Tahoe 35 College Dr. (530) 543-2600

U.S. Forest Service | Tahoe City 3080 N. Lake Blvd. (530) 583-3593 (Fridays)

U.S. Forest Service | Truckee 10811 Stockrest Springs Rd. (530) 587-3558

TRANSIT North Tahoe & Truckee (TART) | laketahoetransit.com South Tahoe | tahoetransportation.org

South Lake Tahoe

(530) 541-5458 | laketahoemuseum.org

Old Jail Museum (530) 582-0893 | truckeehistory.org

Truckee

One of a few surviving 19th Century jails. TART

Boots McFarland by Geolyn Carvin | BootsMcFarland.com

Historical sites and Commons Beach. TART

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Truckee

Lake Tahoe Museum

North Shore

Tahoe Science Center

Kings Beach State Rec. Area (Thurs.-Mon., summer)

Featuring historic photos & memorabilia, and the Steinbach Indian Basket Museum. TART

Featuring exhibits of work by local artists and works for sale by local artists. TART

Tahoe City

FLOW AT FARAD

Kings Beach

Tahoe City

Interactive exhibits, science & art classes, the BabyZone & the Jungle Gym. TART

Featuring local artists and workshops. South Tahoe

Tahoe City

Self-guided tours, exhibits and hands-on activities. TART

VISITORS’ CENTERS

Museum and 20-mile interpretive driving tour along Old 40. TART

North Tahoe Arts Center

(530) 544-2313 | talart.org

CAPACITY: 18,300 C

A 20,400 MARTIS 867 | CAPACITY: (530) 583-9283 tahoemaritimemuseum.org

Truckee River |

6,227.89

Incline Village 969 Tahoe Blvd. (800) 468-2463

Western SkiSport Museum Donner Summit

Donner Summit Historical Society

KidZone Children’s Museum

Free | (530) 581-2787 | northtahoearts.com

Games. Tower of Nations. Olympic Flame. Olympic CAPACITY: 9,500 C DONNER 2,980 Museum at high camp.

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Truckee Railroad Museum

Home to the North Shore’s largest sandy beach, in the heart of downtown. TART

Tahoe City

Olympic Museum Olympic Valley C 226,500 STAMPEDE 198,734 CAPACITY: (800) 403-0206 | squawalpine.com 29,840 9 Winter Olympic PROSSER 6,356 Celebrate the homeCAPACITY: of the 1960

Tahoe Maritime Museum

Tour the grounds of Vikingsholm Castle, see Eagle Falls and Fannette Island. TART

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INDEPENDENCE 14,587

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The Summit, just west of Truckee, holds the record for the United States’ snowiest April in 1880 when a storm dumped 4’ of snow in 24 hours.

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Once known as the “Grandest Resort in the World.” Grounds open year-round. South Tahoe

LAKE LEVEL Lake Tahoe Natural rim 6,223’

150,000 AF

Donner Summit

South Lake Tahoe

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Drive through the neck of an old volcano.

Tallac Historic Site

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Cave Rock

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EVENTS CALENDAR Courtesy Homewood Mountain Resort

lift line

Take a cruise on Lake Tahoe to start the day skiing with a point-to-point charter from Tahoe Keys Marina in South Lake Tahoe on the “Tahoe Bleu Wave” to the slopes of Homewood Mountain Resort.

The charter includes a complimentary hot breakfast on board while enjoying views of Lake Tahoe where it docks at the West Shore Cafe, across from Homewood. Spend the day skiing on the slopes at Homewood before heading back across the lake. | skihomewood.com

Land Trust to purchase Poulsen

property

The Truckee Donner Land Trust and Squaw Valley Public Service District have entered into a contract to acquire about 30 acres of the Poulsen property, one of Olympic Valley’s founding families, as first reported at TheTahoeWeekly.com. The parcel has been owned by the Poulsen family since 1942. The purchase will preserve the land that includes portions of Squaw Creek and Squaw Meadows.

The project will be discussed at several Squaw Valley Public Service District meetings including the board meetings on Jan. 29 and Feb. 26 at 8:30 a.m., and the Parks and Recreation Committee meeting on Feb. 12 at 2 p.m. | tdlandtrust.org, svpsd.org

Wanderlust

returns to Squaw

The Wanderlust Festival returns to Squaw Valley from July 18 to 21 featuring worldrenowned yoga and meditation teachers, outdoor instructors, musical performers and more, as first reported at TheTahoeWeekly. com. In 2019, Wanderlust is also offering full-day Thursday immersions and new heartpumping HIIT classes. | wanderlust.com CONTINUED ON PAGE 8

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relatively easy snowshoe or crosscountry ski trip leads to a stunningly beautiful view of Lake Tahoe from one of the basin’s lesser-known prominences in the Carson Range above the East Shore: 7,904-foot Castle Rock.

While scads of tourists are bustling through the South Tahoe casino district and hordes of alpine skiers are careening down the slopes of Heavenly Mountain Resort nearby, oftentimes peace and serenity reign in the winter back country just north of 7,344-foot Daggett Pass. While the physical demands of this 2½-mile round trip are fairly minimal, requiring less than 500 feet of elevation gain, a bit of navigation will be necessary in order to successfully negotiate the route to the vista point and back through moderate forest cover of western white, lodgepole and Jeffrey pines.

Don’t be dismayed by the formidable wall of rock at the destination, which requires

While the physical demands of this 2½-mile round trip are fairly minimal, a bit of navigation will be necessary in order to successfully negotiate the route. fourth-class climbing skills to scale. More accessible vantage points around the base provide equally stunning views of the lake’s surface dramatically reflecting the ring of snow-clad mountains above.

Find the start of the route by walking a short distance back down the plowed road from the parking area to where snowcovered Forest Service Road 13N80 on your right descends southwest through the drainage of Burke Creek, passing below a few homes of the Upper Kingsbury subdivision. The moderately graded descent soon leaves these signs of civilization behind, where a fresh blanket of snow will provide a welcome winter hush to the undeveloped surroundings. A half-mile into your journey the route transitions to a gently rising traverse around the base of a treecovered hill on your right; the route curves to the north.

Still in the trees, you eventually bend to the west for a short distance to arrive at a broad saddle to the northeast of Castle Rock, 1 mile from the parking area. From this saddle, turn to the southwest and make a moderate ascent, passing by a rock knob along the way. Past the knob, the grade increases on the viewless approach to the east face of Castle Rock. Once beneath the outcrop, you must snowshoe around to the opposite side and safely make a short but steep scramble up snow ramps to the top

of a slightly lower pinnacle to the south of the true summit (which does indeed require technical mountaineering skill to gain).

Here a grand view of Tahoe unfolds, including Marla Bay immediately right of Round Hill, the distant peaks of the Crystal Range above the far shore and a host of additional Tahoe landmarks spread across the Basin. After a couple of hours in the forest, the expansive view of Lake Tahoe is a fine reward for the sweat and toil involved in getting here. After fully absorbing the beautiful scenery, retrace your tracks back to the parking area at Andria Drive.

A section of the historic Pony Express Trail along the old Kingsbury Grade Road east of Daggett Pass offers snowshoers another possible route in the area when snow conditions are favorable. A satisfying start to your trip to Castle Rock may be had not far from the trailhead at Red Hut Café on Kingsbury Grade, where you can enjoy some hearty breakfast fare.

HOW TO GET THERE Follow State Route 207 (Kingsbury Grade) from U.S. Route 50 in Stateline, Nev., toward Daggett Pass about 3 miles to a left-hand turn onto North Benjamin Drive (0.3 mile westbound of the pass).

Follow north on Benjamin Drive, which soon becomes Andria Drive and continue to the end of a plowed road near the Kingsbury North trailhead for the Tahoe

FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Lake Tahoe from Castle Rock;

Approaching Castle Rock.

Rim Trail. Park on the roadside as space allows; avoid parking in the snowplow turnaround.

The plowed parking area is also a launching point for snowmobilers following the Genoa Peak Road to the north. The route to Castle Rock is not marked; snowshoers must be able to navigate safely there and back. Avalanche danger is extremely minimal around Castle Rock but consult daily reports at sierraavalanchecenter.org. 

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JAN. 24-FEB. 7, 2019 Guided Snowshoe Tours

Business Speed Networking

Clair Tappaan Lodge Norden Jan. 26, Feb. 2

Pick 6 Sports Bar | South Lake Tahoe | Jan. 29

Jen Schmidt |Photo Diamond CreditPeak | Photographer?

Bring snowshoes or rent a pair. The tour lasts 2 to 3 hours. Bring snacks and dress comfortably, in layers. Hot chocolate and tea will be available before and after the tour.

Space is limited. | $10-$20 | (530) 426-3632, facebook.com

Celebrate winter at UllrFest Join the Diamond Peak Ski Team as it honors the Norse god Ullr (pronounced ull-er) at the 10th annual UllrFest on Feb. 1 at Diamond Peak Ski Resort and on Feb. 2 at The Chateau. The celebratory weekend includes a torchlight parade down the slopes, bonfire, party and live music on Friday and a gala dinner with dancing and auction on Saturday. Proceeds benefit Diamond Peak Ski Education Foundation. Purchase tickets online. | dpsef.org

Spaghetti Dinner Truckee Community Recreation Center | Jan. 26 The 18th annual Spaghetti Dinner, Bingo and Auction to benefit Sierra Seniors Services is at Truckee’s Community Recreation Center.Tickets are $30. Purchase online at sierraseniors. org or at Plumas Bank in Truckee. At the door tickets will be $35. 5-9 p.m. | seirraseniors.org

First Tracks Homewood Mountain Resort | Jan. 26

First Tracks Breakfasts include a hot breakfast and coffee from 7 to 8 a.m., then the ability to load the Madden Chair as early as 8 a.m. to ski off the Old Homewood Express before the general public is allowed to begin loading at 9 a.m. Free to passholders, $99 nonpassholders. 7 a.m. | skihomewood.com

Connect for a Cause Charity Mixer

Tahoe Rim Trail

Riva Grill | South Lake Tahoe | Jan. 24

restoration funded

The nonprofit Tahoe Fund has raised $80,000 through donations and a private match to restore a section of the Tahoe Rim Trail in Desolation Wilderness, as first reported at TheTahoeWeekly.com.

One of the most scenic hiking, horseback riding and backpacking sections of the Tahoe Rim Trail in Desolation Wilderness has been significantly degraded over time, due to increased use combined with extreme weather events, affecting safety, recreational experience and water quality.

Crews will work on the trail this summer. | tahoefund.org

Humane societies team up

The Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe is now offering animal welfare services in South Lake Tahoe. The board of the Lake Tahoe Humane Society announced in early January that it would move it services under the Truckee-based nonprofit, as first reported at TheTahoeWeekly.com.

Services will include adoptions, along with a low-cost spay and neuter program to limited-income, full-time residents of Truckee, Eastern El Dorado County, Eastern Nevada County, Eastern Placer County, Incline Village, Sierra County, and South Lake Tahoe from Glenbrook to Meyers. | (530) 587-5948, hstt.org 8

This year’s mixer will help to replenish Bread & Broth’s B&B 4 Kids meal program. This program provides weekend food bags to more than 150 students in Grades K to 8. 5:30-8:30 p.m. $20-$30 | tahoechamber.org

Help with computers Kings Beach Library | Jan. 24, 31, Feb. 7

First Thursdays of the month are “Exploring our Digital Resources,” second Thursdays are “Computer Q&A with Carl LeBlanc,” third Thursdays are “Everything iPhone” and fourth Thursdays are differing themes about computers and technology. 3-4 p.m. Free | (530) 5462021, placer.ca.gov

This National Winter Trails Day, The Tahoe Rim Trail Association and the Sugar Pine Foundation will be co-hosting an afternoon snowshoe trek to Echo Lake. This will be a leisurely snowshoe from the Echo Lake Sno-Park (Johnson Pass Rd) to Lower Echo Lake. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. $5-$25 | tahoerimtrail.org

Stargazing Snowshoe Tours Northstar California Resort | Truckee | Jan. 26

Guests of all ages will enjoy an easy to moderate snowshoe walk with an unobstructed view of the cosmos. Stargazing Snowshoe Tours are two to two and a half hours in length, and meet at 5 p.m. at Northstar California Resort’s Cross Country, Telemark & Snowshoe Center. Reservations encouraged. 5 p.m. | (800) 466-6784, northstarcalifornia.com

Disco Tubing Ice Endangered: Art Inspires Action The Lift Workspace | Truckee | Jan. 24

Enjoy winter art over apps and drinks. Join the conversation about climate solutions and building resiliency. Featured Truckee artists and photographers include Brian Shepp and Scott Thompson. 5:30-7 p.m. Free | chamber. truckee.com

Chamber Membership 101 California Welcome Center | Truckee | Jan. 30

For new, current or potential members to learn about the benefits of belonging to the Truckee Chamber of Commerce. Coffee and pastries. 8-9 a.m. | chamber.truckee.com

Operation Sierra Storm: “The New Reality” Harvey’s Lake Tahoe | Stateline | Jan. 30

This Intergovernmental Panel is on climate change. Adaptation and mitigation options for reducing risks over shorter and longer time scales. Dr. Kristie L. Ebi, will provide a look at current realities and future scenarios. 8 a.m. | (800) 427-7247, osstahoe.com

Lifescapes Incline Village Library | Feb. 1

A memoir-writing program for seniors.

2-4 p.m. | (775) 832-4130, washoelibrary.us

Science of Cocktails Wild Winter Tree Hunt Echo Summit Snow Park | Twin Bridges | Jan. 26

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GeniusETC and Tahoe Regional Young Profesionals want to provide an opportunity to enjoy meeting new business contacts in a fun atmosphere. 6-9 p.m. | facebook.com

SnowVentures Activity Zone Olympic Valley | Jan. 26, Feb. 2

Families can spin, slide and speed down the snow tubing lanes to vibrant DJ tunes as the night is illuminated with colorful lights and lasers splashed on the mountainside. Tubing starts on the hour for 55-minute session.

5-7 p.m. | squawalpine.com

Sierra Nevada College | Incline Village | Feb. 1

Enjoy science-themed cocktails with enlightening activities and demonstrations. Get crafty with DIY stations including bitters-making, liquid nitrogen ice cream bar, and more. 5-7:30 p.m. $65 | (775) 881-7566, sierranevada.edu

Ullr Fest Diamond Peak Ski Resort Incline Village | Feb. 1, 2

The 10th annual UllrFest is a benefit weekend to raise funds for the Diamond Peak Ski Team. It kicks off Friday night with a torchlight parade, bonfire, party and live music. Dress in Ullr attire. | (775) 832-1177, diamondpeak.com

Community Appreciation Ski Days Diamond Peak Ski Resort Incline Village | Feb. 4-6

Free lift tickets to people with a valid IVGID Picture Pass or Punch Card. Diamond Peak season passholders with a valid IVGID Picture Pass or Punch Card will receive free demo equipment rentals. Details online. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. | (775) 832-1177, facebook.com

New Moon snowshoe Area venues | South Lake Tahoe | Feb. 4

Enjoy the complete darkness in the forest, best time for seeing stars, constellations, satellites and space junk. 5-7:30 p.m. | tahoesnowshoetours.com

Mountain Host Tours

Winter Fireworks

Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows Olympic Valley | Jan. 25-27, Feb. 1-3

Village at Squaw Olympic Valley | Jan. 26, Feb. 2

Tuesday Morning Breakfast Club

Tahoe Rim Trail Tour & Race

The NLTRA hosts this monthly event on the first Tuesday of every month. All community members are invited to attend for the latest in community news and projects. 7-8:30 a.m. $15 | gotahoenorth.com

Join the Squaw Valley Mountain Hosts offering free Mountain Tours for intermediate or advanced skiers and riders. 9:30 a.m. | (800) 403-0206, squawalpine.com

Chronic Pain Self-Management Program Tahoe Forest Center for Health Truckee | Jan. 25, Feb. 1

Weekly classes to help maintain a wellness focus, improve quality of life; techniques to deal with frustration, fatigue, isolation, poor sleep; improving strength, flexibility and endurance; use of medications; healthy eating, etc.

1-3:30 p.m. Free | (530) 587-3769, tfhd.com

Virtual Reality Studio Incline Village Library | Jan. 25

Experience the canals of Venice, ride a roller coaster or walk with dinosaurs. 3:30-5:30 p.m. | (775) 832-4130, libraryaware.com

Enjoy a winter fireworks celebration every Saturday at 5:30 p.m. Free | (800) 403-0206

Tahoe Cross Country | Tahoe City | Jan. 27

Far West Nordic presents the 12th annual Tahoe Rim Tour & Race, a point-to-point 26K race from Tahoe XC to Northstar. With ongoing festivities at Northstar as racers arrive. Enjoy an end-of-race lunch followed by awards. | farwestnordic.org

55+ Snowshoe Hikes Area Venue | Incline Village | Jan. 29, Feb. 5

Trekkers of all abilities are welcome to join IVGID Senior programs for a weekly light to moderate level snowshoe hike at various locations throughout the Tahoe area. Hikes are subject to weather conditions. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. | (775) 832-1310, yourtahoeplace.com

Granlibakken | Tahoe City | Feb. 5

Building Resiliency in Youth Sierra Nevada College | Incline Village | Feb. 7 Join a talk on Building Resiliency in Youth with Dr. Mark Servis, Dr. Kathleen Tebb, and Peter Mayfield. 5:30-7:30 p.m. | (775) 8817560, tahoe.ucdavis.edu

Winter Speaker Series Olympic Village Lodge | Olympic Valley | Feb. 7

Caroline Gleich is a professional ski mountaineer and adventurer based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Raffle and bar proceeds benefit Protect Our Winter. 7 p.m. | alpenglowsports.com

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An Easter sledding party in Tahoe City on a do-it-yourself track. | Katherine E. Hill

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ne of my family’s favorite winter activities — and

one of the best ways to wear

SLEDDING ATTIRE Avoid cotton | Once it gets wet it will stay wet and will pull heat away from

out your kid — is sledding.

Whether it be in the backyard

your body. Instead, choose clotting

or at a groomed sledding hill,

made from synthetic materials or

it is great way to spend time

wool for really cold days.

Layer it | Layers are the best defense against cold weather. Start with a lightweight base layer, followed by an insulating mid-layer and a waterproof jacket, pants and gloves. Trust me, if you wear pants that are not water-

with the family and enjoy the snow. What better way to bond with the family is there than sliding down a hill letting out screams of joy?

proof, you will have a wet backside after the first few laps.

Pack extra | Bring extra gloves, and a dry pair of clothes for the kids, including extra shoes, to change into after sledding.

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Create a backyard sled hill We like making our own sled hill in our yard, but there has to be just the right amount of snow. Usually 6 inches is enough to cover the ground and any small obstacles to provide an open path.

Our yard has the right pitch: short, with a slight pitch that runs into a longer, steeper pitch that runs out into an embankment.

We stay away from the road.

When making a sled path in fresh snow, we have to make several laps — at least four to five — while pushing the snow down with the sled to make a slick,

flat path. This can be a difficult task, especially if there is a lot of fresh snow, and usually requires some strange scooting and squatting positions along with lots of pushing and pulling to compact the snow. It gets easier with every lap and eventually we have a fast, fun sledding track. We prefer long, rectangular sleds for speed but the plastic saucers offer better control.

slopes for those looking for a fast and exciting ride — like my son Anikin. We usually bring Anikin’s small snowmobile to make fast laps on the sled hill.

Tahoe Meadows is a popular spot and parking can be difficult, especially on weekends and during holiday periods.

The most popular sledding spots at Tahoe Meadows are next to the highway and are well used and packed down, which

What better way to bond with the family is there than sliding down a hill on your butts letting out screams of joy?

Explore the region If there isn’t enough snow at our house or we are looking for a more exhilarating ride, we head up to Tahoe Meadows located on Mount Rose Highway (State Route 431). Tahoe Meadows offers a winter wonderland for everyone to enjoy. Although it’s a popular spot for cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and snowmobiling, it is also the perfect spot for sledding. There are several different slopes with different pitches to choose from. There are gentle slopes for a mellow cruise down the mountain or long, steep

makes for easy sledding. But, the hardest places to find parking are right there, as well. If you are feeling adventurous, you can find your own spot, away from the crowds, to make your own sled hill. You might have to work a little harder but if you have the patience to drive around until you find a less crowded spot, it will be worth it in the end.

Free sledding can also be found at any U.S. Forest Service Sno-Park in the region. Visit ohv.parks.ca.gov for a full list of Sno-Parks in the area (a parking

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PICKING THE RIGHT SLED Do-it-yourself track | If you are creating your own sled track, the rectangular, plastic sleds are a great tool for packing down the track and making it slick.

The round saucers can also be used but can take longer since the surface area of the sled is much smaller.

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Local sled hills | If you are sledding at a well-used sled hill with packed trails, the lightweight, round saucers are a good option for high speed laps.

But they can be hard to steer and hard to control the speed. The rectangular sleds are easy to steer and stop, making them great for the more timid or for two passengers.

permit is required). There are also a few unofficial sled hills that pop up during the winter around the region.

Keep your eyes out for places near you where others are sledding. Make sure it is not on private property and be careful not to park in an unauthorized area such as someone’s driveway, the shoulder next to the highway, on or off ramps, etc.

Pros & cons of toboggans | Other types of sleds include traditional sleds, called toboggans, which are made of wood and have steel rails or runners. They are excellent for steering and maximizing speed, but they are heavy and many of them require you to lay down face first

Groomed sled runs

on your belly. Not the safest option but

You can always pay to sled or tube on groomed hills at local ski resorts, the Tahoe City Winter Sports Park or Adventure Mountain on Echo Summit. These areas offer tubing or sledding on well-maintained, groomed trails.

For a unique and groovy sledding experience, check out Disco Tubing every Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m. at SnoVentures Activity Zone at Squaw Valley. The sledding trails are decorated with laser and LED lights, with live music provided by a DJ. 

are lots of fun and a great challenge.

Michelle Allen is a nearly 20-year resident of Tahoe and mother to a rambunctious 6-year-old and understands the challenges of keeping kids entertained. She may be reached at michelle@ tahoethisweek.com.

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if you are feeling nostalgic, toboggans

Tubes | There are also inflatable tubes with a slick, rubber material on the bottom for increased mobility and are ideal for machine-groomed trails. The rubber material can be a hindrance on

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TAHOE WEEKLY PUTS TOGETHER an annual Ultimate Tahoe Winter Bucket List each season of the best activities, outings, events and more to do. This year, we’ve added a version just for the kids. Explore all that Tahoe has to offer this winter on and off the slopes. Details at TheTahoeWeekly.com; click on Events Calendar.

1 Take in a magic show at The Loft.

2 Make homemade hot chocolate.

3 Make snow angels.

4 Practice making snowballs.

5 Have a good, old-fashioned snowball fight.

6 Use your skills at the Tahoe Donner Snowball Throwing Contest on March 31.

7 Take the kids sledding.

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8 Enjoy s’more fun with the family with special events all season: Northstar’s S’morey Time, Après S’mores at Squaw Valley, Get S’mores Saturdays in Kings Beach and S’moresapalooza at Northstar.

9 Try a Treetop Adventure Park. Yes, the ropes courses are open in the winter.

10 Take the kids to an indoor climbing wall. They’ll love it.

11 Spend the day at the Tahoe City Winter Sports Park – ice skating, sledding, snowshoeing and cross-country skiing.

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12 Winterpalooza. Enjoy tubing, snowman building & more Jan. 26 at Tahoe Donner.

13 Enter Kirkwood’s Tahoe Junior Freeride Series on Feb. 2 and 3, with it moving to Mt. Rose on Feb. 8.

14 Kids rule at Squaw’s Kid-O-Rama from Feb. 16 to 24.

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15 Pack a picnic and spend the day at Tahoe Meadows – snowshoeing, sledding, snowmobiling & skiing.

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16 Record snowflakes. Order a Stories in the Snow Citizen Science kit.

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17 All kids love fire trucks, snow cats and groomers. Take them to Big Truck Day at Squaw on Feb. 18 to enjoy them all.

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#30 18 Little ones will have a blast at Tahoe Tot Spot in South Lake Tahoe with activities for ages 8 and younger.

19 Join the fun at the annual Glowstick Parade & Carnival on Feb. 23 at Tahoe Donner Downhill. Kids 10 and younger who can ski or ride unassisted in the dark on the Snowbird run can join the Glowstick Parade.

20 SnowFest! Enjoy family friendly activities for all ages during the 10-day winter carnival from Feb. 28 to March 10.

21 Help devour a 200-foot banana split at the Banana Split Extravaganza on March 16 at Tahoe Donner Downhill.

22 Families can tube to the sounds of a DJ was Disco Tubing every Saturday at Squaw Valley until March 23.

23 Enjoy Friday Fun Nights every Friday until April 5 at Northstar with disco lights on the ice skating rink, face painting, live music and more.

24 Enjoy the Winter Fireworks every Saturday at Squaw through March 30.

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25 Make it a family affair and enter the local downhill dummy contests held each spring at Diamond Peak on March 24 and Tahoe Donner Downhill on April 14.

26 Take a free Young Eagles airplane ride the second Saturday of the month of ages 8 and older with the Experimental Aircraft Association in Truckee.

27 Get creative at the free Kids Art Saturdays at the North Tahoe Arts Center on March 3, March 31, May 12 & June 9.

28 Visit the KidZone Museum in Truckee with fun activities designed for ages 7 and younger.

29 Practice your snowman-making skills, then enter the Snow-Man Building Contest on March 2 at Tahoe Donner Snowplay.

30 The kids will have a blast at Woodward Tahoe with foam pits, an indoor skate park and pump track and much more.

31 Take a turn on the ice. Enjoy local community rinks in Tahoe City, Truckee and South Lake Tahoe, and at local resorts.

32 Learn about Tahoe environmental and natural history at the Tahoe Science Center with kid-friendly science exhibits for ages 8 and older.

33 Catch snowflakes on your tongue. 

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For the Kids Visit the Event Calendar at TheTahoeWeekly.com for a complete list of events.

Early Literacy Storytime

Preschool Story Time

South Lake Tahoe Library South Lake Tahoe | Jan. 25, Feb. 1

Kings Beach Library Kings Beach | Jan. 29, Feb. 5

Build a child’s pre-reading skills with this engaging and interactive program designed to support a child’s early literacy development for a lifelong love of reading and learning.

Suitable for children ages 3 to 5 with parents and caregivers. 10:30 a.m. Free | (530) 5753185, engagedpatrons.org

Pups, PJs & Popcorn Movie Night Humane Society of Truckee Tahoe Truckee | Jan. 25

Teen Tuesdays

Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe will be offering parents an opportunity for a kidfree evening. Drop the kids off in PJs along with a sleeping bag and pillow and we’ll provide pizza, popcorn, arts activities and the movie: “The Secret Life of Pets.” Must RSVP and pay ahead of time. 5:30-8:30 p.m. $25 | hstt.org

Kids in grades 6-12 can shoot hoops, play volleyball, climb the rock wall and play arcade or video games. 6:30-9 p.m. $5 | (775) 586-7271

Enjoy a day for family friendly activities at Winterpalooza on Jan. 26 at the Tahoe Donner Snowplay area with tube racing, snowman building, relay races and more from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. | (530) 587-9437, tahoedonner.com

Mother Goose on the Loose

Code Crew: Coding Basics for Kids

South Lake Tahoe Library South Lake Tahoe | Jan. 24, 31, Feb. 7

Incline Village Library Incline Village | Jan. 24, 31

Jump start your child’s brain development with this award-winning program that combines music, movement and literature.

10:30 a.m. | (530) 573-3185, engagedpatrons.org

Toddler Story Time Incline Village Library Incline Village | Jan. 24, 31, Feb. 7

Photography and Family History Sierra College, Tahoe Truckee | Jan. 25

Truckee Library | Truckee | Jan. 30, Feb. 6

The Truckee Library has joined forces with the Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe to bring the RUFF (Read Up For Fun) Program to children in the library. Children can practice their reading skills by reading aloud to trained therapy animals. Kids can play and do crafts while waiting their turn to read. 4-5 p.m. Free | (530) 582-7846, truckeefol.org

Friday Fun Nights

This 4-week series will introduce kids ages 7-12 to the logical, sequential nature of coding. Discover what coding is and what coding can do through a variety of group activities and hands-on coding. Every week is different so plan on attending all four classes. Ages 7-9 require caregiver in attendance. Registration is required: 4 p.m. Free | (775) 832-4130, libraryaware.com

Kids Night Out

Northstar California Resort Truckee | Jan. 25, Feb. 1

Join the fun in the heart of the Village as the disco lights surround the ice skating rink every Friday night with drink specials, complimentary face painting and live music. | (800) 466-6784, northstarcalifornia.com

5-9PM | Truckee | Feb. 1

Kids ages 4 to 9 are invited to an evening of fun at Northwoods Clubhouse while parents enjoy a night on the town. 5-9 p.m. | tahoedonner.com

Weird Science Wednesday Incline Village Library Incline Village | Feb. 6

Come join the fun and experiment with weird wacky science. 4-4:45 p.m. | (775) 8324130, events.washoecountylibrary.us

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Babysitting Training for Teens

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Join Sierra College Photography Professor Randy Snook for this interactive presentation on the history and cultural, as well as per-sonal, meaning of family photographs.

Participants are encouraged to bring a few old photographs. Refreshments at 6:30 p.m., program from 7 to 8:15 p.m. | sierracollege.ticketleap.com

With stories, puppets, music and movement for ages 18 months to 3 years. 11:1511:45 a.m. | (775) 832-4130

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Offers kids a fun way to explore different ways to learn about technology. A new activity each week. 4-5 p.m. Free | (775) 832-4130, libraryaware.com

If you would like to become a babysitter, take this class to learn about keeping kids safe, the business of babysitting, creative ideas for entertaining children and tactics for dealing with misbehaving kids. Upon completion, participants will receive a certificate from the American Red Cross for Babysitting Training. Grades 6 and older. 3-5:15 p.m. | tdrpd.org

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Winterpalooza

The Kings Beach Library hosts a Preschool Storytime every Tuesday from 10:30-11am.

Each week has a different theme. In a lively, silly and casual environment kids work on multi-sensory pre-literacy skills. Stop by for loads of fun, and read books, sing songs, learn nursery rhymes, and do a fun and easy crafts.

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Aquarius (Jan 19-Feb 19) A fresh impulse to express yourself in new ways has begun. This will likely require significant moves and measures close to home. This could literally manifest as moves to new locations. Otherwise, the movement indicated could be described as mobilizing your efforts to new modes of participation in the world.

Pisces (Feb 19-Mar 20) Stepping back even further than before for a while is likely now. Yet, it is not necessarily an idle time. Rather, you are gestating a whole new wave of thoughts and ideas. In fact, this process which began in spring 2018 is becoming the new norm. It can be described as a process of re-invention and/or one of a steady flow of innovation.

Aries (Mar 21-Apr 20) Mars in your sign is fast approaching conjunction with Uranus. This will activate a revolutionary push. Changes in your financial approach could manifest as new occupations or stimulating new streams of income. Whether by inspiration or circumstance, your attitude is sober and determined yet may also be recognized as revolutionary.

Taurus (Apr 20-May 21) Getting more attention is important to you now. Whether this recognition is linked to earned rewards, cashing in on favors owed or simply as your determination to be seen and heard, you will be. This could manifest as a pioneering determination to enter new territory. It is not simply that things are changing; it is that you are changing.

Leo (Jul 22-Aug 23) Increasing your social outreach is indicated now. The ball is in your court to take the initiative.

Creative opportunities abound and you are wise to be at least engaged in a brainstorming process to generate new ideas. Change is an inevitable feature of this process so preparing for it mentally and emotionally is ideal prior to the actual outer process.

Virgo (Aug 23-Sep 22) Something special is brewing in you. After many months and, in some respects, years of cultivation of a deepened sense of individuality and independence, the time has come to advance to the next level. Expect your ambition levels to rise over the coming weeks and months. If you do not already know how to respond or have an action plan, deciphering it is it.

Libra (Sep 22-Oct 22) As is true of all great stories, the plot must thicken for it to be exciting and epic. Fortunately, this is exactly what is happening. As well, you are eager to play along and rise to the occasion. This will include new designs and strategies, at least eventually. For now, your best approach is to keep an open mind and improvise as is required.

Scorpio (Oct 22-Nov 21) You might wonder sometimes if others feel as deeply different as you do. The answer is that many probably do not. You have the unique distinction of sometimes feeling like you are from another planet.

The twist is that while you are busy regarding others as alien, they too feel the same about you. It is this very mutual sense of individuality that is your common ground.

Gemini (May 21-Jun 21) An expansive cycle is underway. It includes a mind-opening and even revolutionary impulse that has already been active all month, yet has suddenly risen to the next level. Satisfying social interactions are indicated. Expansion and increase are featured, and it includes creative offspring, whether literal or figurative in terms of inspirations to express yourself creatively.

Sagittarius (Nov 21-Dec 21) Waves of opportunity to gain fresh perspectives on familiar realities are rolling it. How can it be that what is much the same as it was before seems so different now? This is what is meant by personal transformation. The change is internal and is directly linked to your perceptions and priorities and invariably to your attitudes and behavior patterns.

Cancer (Jun 21-Jul 22) Capricorn (Dec 21-Jan 19) A new phase of development is underway. You are very much in a foundation building process. Yet, it has as much to do with awakening to latent skills and talents. These may be your own yet may also include those of others. Harnessing the skills and abilities of others is a feature of your destiny. Yet doing so is its own skill. Either way, creative planning is indicated.

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When a city’s navy is battling in its own harbor, people could claim it has a home port advantage.

Hocus Focus differences: 1. Boy’s hat is different, 2. Bear is wearing mittens, 3. Boy’s glove is black, 4. Mountains are snow-capped, 5. Boy’s freckles are missing, 6. Bear has three toes.

A blend of determination to be more assertive and a disturbing wave of hesitation characterizes some of your core feelings lately. What is required is more faith and spontaneous action and less analysis and deliberation. However, be careful that this inner challenge is not negatively displaced and directed at others. Just do it!

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here has been a long tradition of quilting in the United States when early settlers couldn’t afford to throw used blankets or fabric away and used them to make patchwork quilts.

Centuries later, a group of modern quilters is keeping this art alive and giving back to the community. In 2005, former North Lake Tahoe resident Maggi Davis created the Bee Inclined Quilters, a small group of friends who share a love of quilting. Now more than a decade later, the Bee Inclined Quilters have more than 30 active

ARTour will be returning in 2019, hosted by the nonprofit North Tahoe Arts, on July 20, 21, 27 and 28 with an artists’ studio tour and sales at locations throughout the region.

An art reception for the event will be held on July 13, and a gallery exhibit will be held at the North Tahoe Art Center in Tahoe City from July 5 to Aug. 4 to coincide with the tour. Registration opens Feb. 14 and continues until May 10.

“I can’t walk into a fabric store without buying something, but I think most quilters are like that; we’re very tactile.”

The North Lake Tahoe Plein Air Open will return from June 25 to 29 with Plein Air events including Paint Outs, the Quick Draw Competition and outdoor demonstrations.

There will also be a gallery exhibit from June 25 to 29 at the Art Center. Registration will be open from Feb. 1 to March 15. | northtahoearts.com

–Millie Szerman members who meet once a month at the Incline Village Library to share patterns, projects and sew together.

“All of us have a closet full of quilts,” says member Millie Szerman, who is the group’s spokesperson.

“And we also have closets full of fabrics, so we look for projects that focus on scrappy quilts,” adds fellow member Roxanna Dunn.

“People who love to make quilts tend to end up with many of them and so we started giving them away to friends, family and whoever they can benefit,” Szerman says.

Szerman has been sewing all of her life but didn’t take up quilting until after she retired in 2014. When a friend invited her to a quilting class in Reno, she bought all of the materials needed to make it and then joined Bee Inclined Quilters.

In Szerman’s sewing and growing room, swatches of fabric and a large cutting board are on one side and rows of orchids are on the other, including a bolt of batting against a wall that she cuts for whoever needs it in the group. She says she currently has about 12 quilting projects in the works, both personal and for group projects.

“There’s a faction of our group that makes quilts for veterans, donating them to the Quilts of Valor,” she says.

The Bee Inclined Quilters also make quilts for Casa de Vida, a safe place for pregnant young women in need; Northern Nevada Children’s Cancer Foundation and Tahoe SAFE Alliance; dresses for the Dress a Girl Around the World campaign and kitty pillows for the Pet Network Humane Society — to name a few. Davis admits that since its inception, the Bee Inclined Quilters have lost track of all of 16

the organizations they have donated quilts to over the years.

“I can’t walk into a fabric store without buying something, but I think most quilters are like that; we’re very tactile,” Szerman says.

The group mainly makes quilts out of donated fabric and the membership fees of $15 a year go toward buying materials.

When the Bee Inclined Quilters connect once a month at the library, they’ll come armed with their sewing machines and spend three to four hours together.

There’s a show-and-tell element to the meeting; members will display a particularly favorite piece and if other members are interested, the quilter will teach the block.

Members are free to work on individual projects or join in to contribute to a group project or charity.

“We have a project at each meeting. It’s either something for yourself and in some cases we will make an extra one for the group project,” says Szerman.

“One project was to share how many UFOs [unfinished projects] you did in a year,” Dunn says.

Another was to make a beehive-themed nametag and the person who had the best one got a raffle ticket to win a quiltingrelated prize at the end of the year. Szerman brought out a quilted origami bowl or vase holder or wine bottle koozie — or whatever you want to make of it.

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Roxanna Dunn’s handsewn tree quilt made in the “Acorn’s Promise” pattern. | Courtesy Bee Inclined Quilters; Millie’s sewing and growing room. | Kayla Anderson; Millie Szerman shows off some of her many projects. | Kayla Anderson

“It’s a project searching for a purpose,” says Dunn.

Another favorite group project was to make an ugly quilt; members brought in their ugliest swatch of fabric, swapped the pieces with each other and sewed a

Meets third Thursday of the month 1-4 p.m.

Incline Village Library Incline Village, Nev. Everyone welcome

block for the group quilt. When it all came together it was lovely and sold in a recent quilt sale.

“Everyone in this group is motivated to sew. Doing handmade things is what juices us,” Szerman says. | rldavis1@aol.com 

Apply to

Community of Writers The Squaw Valley Community of Writers has brought together poets and prose writers for separate weeks of workshops to assist writers in the refinement of his or her craft in an atmosphere of camaraderie and support for 49 summers. The writing workshops return for 2019 featuring poetry and fiction, nonfiction and memoir at locations at Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows.

The workshops for poetry will run from June 22 to 29 and will take place in the lodge at Alpine Meadows; special guests include Robert Haas. The workshops for fiction, nonfiction and memoir will take place from July 8 to 15 in the Village at Squaw in Olympic Valley; special guest include Joyce Carol Oates and Amy Tan. Applications are now being accepted.

Details, logistics and application forms can be found on the Web site. The deadline for all workshops is March 28. | communityofwriters.org

Jan. 24-Feb. 6, 2019

Arts

THE ARTS

THE

REVOLUTIONARY PHOTOGRAPHER

The Nevada Museum of Art’s exhibit “Anne Brigman | A Visionary in Modern Photography” is closing on Jan. 27. This retrospective exhibition rediscovers and celebrates the work of Anne Brigman, who is best known for her iconic landscape photographs made in the early 1900s depicting herself and other female nudes outdoors in the Sierra Nevada.

Brigman’s photography was considered radical for its time. To objectify her own nude body as the subject of her photographs at the turn of the 20th Century was groundbreaking; to do so outdoors in a near-desolate wilderness setting was revolutionary. Read more about the exhibit at TheTahoeWeekly.com; click on Art & Culture. | nevadaart.org

After Audubon: Art, Observations and Natural Science Nevada Museum of Art | Reno Jan. 24-April 21

Contemporary artists such as Penelope Gottlieb, Kara Maria and Donald Farnsworth pick up from where John James Audubon left off in new, celebratory and sometimes critical ways. | (775) 329-3333, nevadaart.org

Bethany Laranda Wood: The West at Hand Nevada Museum of Art | Reno Jan. 24-March 3

“The Storm Tree” Anne Brigman | Nevada Museum of Art Gig Depio and Eugene Rolfe: “Korea ‘76”

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Carson City Community Center Carson City | Jan. 24-Feb. 28

Lake Tahoe Community College South Lake Tahoe | Jan. 24-March 23

The Capital City Arts Initiative presents its exhibition “Korea ’76” with work by artists Eugene Rolfe and Gig Depio in the Community Center’s Sierra Room until Feb. 28.

The images reflect both artists’ interest in the interweav-ing of Asian and American cultures, and America’s strong impact on other countries.

8 a.m.-5 p.m. | nevadahumanities.org

Ice Endangered: Art Inspires Action

While working in the field with the Land Arts Program of the American West, Bethany Wood collected images and impressions of major land features, such as Spiral Jetty and the Bingham Copper Pit. Her works take some of the largest land interventions in the West and transforms them into small intricate sculptures. | (775) 329-3333, nevadaart.org

The Lift Workspace | Truckee | Jan. 24

Celebration of the Reno Philharmonic

Laid Bare in the Landscape

Nevada Historical Society | Carson City Jan. 24-March 2

Nevada Museum of Art | Reno | Jan. 24-27

Historical Society exhibit celebrates 50 years of “The Biggest Little Orchestra in the World: the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra.”

The Reno Philharmonic Orchestra positively impacts quality of life in Northern Nevada. The orchestra promotes understanding of other cultures and provides educational outreach to children across Northern Nevada. | (775) 687-0646, nvculture.org

Art inspires action. Enjoy winter art over apps and drinks. Join the conversation about climate solutions and building resiliency with local artists, activists, entrepreneurs and community leaders. Featured Truckee artists and photographers include Brian Shepp and Scott Thompson. 5:30-7 p.m. | chamber.truckee.com

This exhibition assembles photographs, films and performance documentation by women artists who situate the nude female body in outdoor landscapes. “Laid Bare in the Landscape” brings together a range of imagery: from beautiful and sensual self-portraits, to sometimes-surreal and provocative statements by feminist artists beginning in the 1970s. | (775) 329-3333, nevadaart.org

Fab N Funky

Paul Valadez: Selections from the Great Mexican-American Songbook

North Tahoe Arts | Tahoe City Jan. 24-Feb. 24

Nevada Museum of Art | Reno Jan. 24-April 21

Fab N Funky is North Tahoe Arts’ annual art exhibit and sale. Stop by our ARTisan Shop for great deals on handmade art by local artisans. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. | (530) 581-2787, northtahoearts.com

Using vintage sheet music of the “Great American Song Book” as his backdrop, Paul Valadez re-envisions the idea of the songbook, integrating nostalgic images with Spanglish text, resulting in a dichotomy of oblique visual ideas that are equal parts humor and social commentary. 10 a.m. | (775) 329-3333,

“Tahoe Art League Presents”

The annual “Tahoe Art League Presents” art show is running concurrently with a show in the Foyer Gallery by Catherine Lockner and a show of artist printmakers in the Halden Gallery. | talart.org

Photography and Family History Sierra College, Tahoe | Truckee | Jan. 25

Join Sierra College Photography Professor Randy Snook for this interactive presentation on the history and cultural, as well as personal, meaning of family photographs. Participants are encouraged to bring a few old photographs. Refreshments at 6:30 p.m., program from 7 to 8:15 p.m. | sierracollege.ticketleap.com

Tahoe Art League Gallery Open House Tahoe Art League Gallery South Lake Tahoe | Jan. 26

Tahoe Art League Gallery open house and membership renewal party will offer free pizza and drink. Members will be on hand to answer questions about the organization, the gallery and how to become a member or renew memberships. 4:30-8 p.m. | talart.org

Knitting Group Atelier | Truckee | Jan. 29-Dec. 31

The group is open to all knitters, crocheters, loom artists every Tuesday. whatever your thread, you are welcome. This is a not a class, it’s a group intended for individuals who enjoy the company of other yarn artists. Bring a project or start a new one. 4-6 p.m. | (530) 386-2700, ateliertruckee.com

The Lost World of Dragons Wilbur D. May Museum Reno | Jan. 31-May 12

Discover the stories and mythology of dragons throughout history and around the world. Get a thrill from larger-than-life animatronic dragons, try out a virtual reality

experience that lets you ride a flying dragon, sit on a throne, sneak through a dragon’s lair, and more. 10 a.m. | (775) 785-5961, facebook.com

Gathering of Artists North Tahoe Arts Tahoe City | Feb. 6-April 1

This free program offers artists the opportunity to meet other artists and work together in a shared studio space. Bring your latest projects to work on. On first and third Wednesdays. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. | (530) 5812787, northtahoearts.com

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LIVE MUSIC, SHOWS & NIGHTLIFE

Railroad Earth’s

E N T E RTA I N M E N T

CALENDAR

JAN. 24-FEB. 7, 2019

FRESH TRACKS

JANUARY 24 | THURSDAY

STORY BY SEAN McALINDIN

Jan. 31 | 7:30 p.m. | MontBleu Resort Casino | Stateline, Nev.

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few days into 2019, Tim Carbone boarded the shuttle train to the airport in New Jersey on his way to record Railroad Earth’s ninth album.

“When I was 14 years old, I went into a record store, perusing the blues section,” says the virtuoso violinist about his early introduction to the world of rock ‘n’ roll. “It was 1969 and I was listening to records by Freddie King and Lightnin’ Hopkins. I started looking at this record by a violin player named Sugarcane Harris. There was a picture of this black dude.

You could see his face and body, but his arms and hands were a border of blurry violin. I bought the record and it really opened my mind.”

“ There are elements of bluegrass, country, jazz, classical and Celtic music. We have drums, keyboard, electric bass and guitar added into the band.

I’d have say it’s rock ‘n’ roll.”

–Tim Carbone The album Carbone is referencing is none other than Don “Sugarcane” Harris’s eponymous debut the cover of which features a photo of Harris with a woman’s wig reflected in the mirror of what can only be described as a small room with weathered off-white walls.

If you’ve ever seen Carbone let loose on a cresting solo at a Railroad Earth concert, you’d know that his own curly grey-white hair will at times soar in the breeze as if on the melody of some divinely written tune.

“It’s total surrender,” he says. “I have just enough technique and ability, so I don’t have to think. I unhinge. I let something else take over. It’s a symbiotic relationship with the universe.”

Carbone’s family roots come from the Garden State, which is, unbeknownst to many, a surprisingly fertile land for contemporary bluegrass music.

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“Newgrass has its roots in New Jersey,” says Carbone “David Grisman is from Red Bank, Tony Trischka is originally from Orange. One bluegrass band that was the first to make their living off playing rock ‘n’ roll pop covers turned into bluegrass was called The Seldom Scene.

They were from Washington, D.C. Tony Trischka gave lessons to Béla Fleck before he was in New Grass Revival. And the guy who started it at all with his melodic style of playing was Bill Keith from Woodstock, N.Y. This [region] was the petri dish, so to speak.”

When Railroad Earth formed in Stillwater, N.J., in 2001, the musicians involved were already well-seasoned troubadours. Carbone toured the East and Gulf coasts for 15 years with multiinstrumentalist Andy Goessling in Blue Sparks from Hell.

“When we started [Railroad Earth], we made a demo and our agent at the time sent it around,” says Carbone. “One of the people he sent it to was Craig Ferguson from Telluride Bluegrass Festival.

I guess we hit him a on a good day because that was only like our tenth gig.”

Railroad Earth has since found fans around the nation, especially in the Sierra Nevada with the success of their annual Halloween-themed Hangtown Music Festival and repeatedly sold-out appearances at Crystal Bay Casino and WinterWonderGrass.

This month they drive this train of many colors to the Showroom at MontBleu Resort Casino to play a high-energy, danceable music that is hopeless to define.

“I’ve been spending a lot time trying to actually codify that and I’ve realized that it’s kind of impossible,” says Carbone.

“There are elements of bluegrass, country, jazz, classical and Celtic music. We have drums, keyboard, electric bass and guitar added into the band. I’d have say it’s rock ‘n’ roll.”

Railroad Earth lost longtime member Goessling on Oct. 12, 2018, to cancer.

“We’ve gone along the best we could just trying to survive the whole situation,” says Carbone of the band’s run of shows in the Pacific Northwest to close out 2018. “There’ll always be a void there, a little hole that will never go away. We haven’t replaced Andy yet, but we’ve had some other good players who are friends come in and help us out. We’ll figure it out as we go along.”

This same philosophy in the moment goes for the new record the band is about to record at The Parlor with producer and singer/songwriter Anders Osborne.

“It’s our first record without Andy,” says Carbone. “A couple of the songs I’ve put into the mix I demoed with Andy, so his parts are on there. There is a possibility he will be represented somehow or some way.”

Railroad Earth takes it name from the dreamy, sentimental Jack Kerouac prose poem “October in the Railroad Earth.”

“There’s a Buddhist saying: ‘Time of death uncertain; practice dharma today,’ ” says Carbone. “The whole goal is to make the best record possible.” | montbleuresort.com 

Live Music Heavenly Village, South Lake Tahoe, 11 a.m.

Piano Project The Potentialist Workshop, Reno, 4-8 p.m.

Live Music Glen Eagles Restaurant & Lounge, Carson City, 6:30-9 p.m.

Live Music Cottonwood Hilltop Restaurant, Truckee, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Sean McAlindin Cottonwood Restaurant & Bar, Truckee, 6:30-10 p.m.

“The Dresser” Bruka Theatre, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Artificial Jungle Restless Artists Theatre Company, Sparks, 7:30 p.m.

Dante Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Barefoot in the Park Reno Little Theater, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

JJ Grey & Mofro w/The Commonheart Crystal Bay Casino, Crystal Bay, 8 p.m.

Magic Fusion Starring Eric Buss The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 9-10:15 p.m.

Live Music Bar of America, Truckee, 9:30-11:55 p.m.

Buddy Emmer Band Carson Valley Inn, Minden

JANUARY 25 | FRIDAY Live Music Heavenly Village, South Lake Tahoe, 11 a.m.

Piano Project The Potentialist Workshop, Reno, 4-8 p.m.

Tuck Wilson Tahoe City, 6-9 p.m.

Ike and Martin Jake’s On The Lake, Tahoe City, 6 p.m.

Live Music Glen Eagles Restaurant & Lounge, Carson City, 6:30-9 p.m.

Fiddler on the Roof JR Truckee Community Arts Center, Truckee, 7 p.m.

Live Music Sands Regency Casino Hotel, Reno, 7-11 p.m.

Carson Comedy Club Carson Nugget, Carson City, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Sage the Gemini Jub Jub’s Thirst Parlor, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

“The Dresser” Bruka Theatre, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Artificial Jungle Restless Artists Theatre Company, Sparks, 7:30 p.m.

Dante Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Barefoot in the Park Reno Little Theater, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Chris Costa Tahoe Biltmore Lodge & Casino, Crystal Bay, 8 p.m.

Travis Tritt Reno, 8-11 p.m.

Pink Awful Virginia Street Brewhouse, Reno, 8 p.m.

Live Music Moody’s Bistro, Bar & Beats, Truckee, 8-11:55 p.m.

Apothic Hellfire Saloon, Reno, 8-11 p.m.

Musicole MidTown Wine Bar, Reno, 8-11:30 p.m.

Magic After Dark starring Robert Hall The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 9-10:15 p.m.

Dante Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 9:30 p.m.

Soul - Funk - Disco Party The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 10 p.m.-12 a.m.

New Wave Crave Crystal Bay Casino, Crystal Bay, 10 p.m.

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C A L E N D A R | JAN. 24-FEB. 7, 2019 Flava D Virginia Street Brewhouse, Reno, 10:30 p.m.

Buddy Emmer Band Carson Valley Inn, Minden Will C Lex Nightclub, Reno

JANUARY 26 | SATURDAY Live Music Heavenly Village, South Lake Tahoe, 11 a.m.

Lost Whiskey Engine Alpine Meadows Lodge, Olympic Valley, 2-5 p.m.

Live DJ Heavenly Village, South Lake Tahoe, 3-6 p.m.

Piano Project The Potentialist Workshop, Reno, 4-8 p.m.

Dramatica St. John’s Presbyterian Church, Reno, 6-8 p.m.

Mike Badinger Tahoe City, 6-9 p.m.

Live Music Glen Eagles Restaurant & Lounge, Carson City, 6:30-9 p.m.

Fiddler on the Roof JR Truckee Community Arts Center, Truckee, 7 p.m.

Live Music Sands Regency Casino Hotel, Reno, 7-11 p.m.

Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue MontBleu Resort, Stateline, 7 p.m.

Come in from the Cold Bartley Ranch Regional Park, Reno, 7 p.m.

Buddy Emmer Band Carson Valley Inn, Minden Beats Antique Harrah’s Lake Tahoe, Stateline, 7:30 p.m.

Carson Comedy Club Carson Nugget, Carson City, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

“The Dresser” Bruka Theatre, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Artificial Jungle Restless Artists Theatre Company, Sparks, 7:30 p.m.

Dante Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Barefoot in the Park Reno Little Theater, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Chris Costa Tahoe Biltmore Lodge & Casino, Crystal Bay, 8 p.m.

The Million Dollar Quartet Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 8 p.m.

Defected Drones, The Afraid, The Pawns, Lost Idea Shea’s Tavern, Reno, 8 p.m.

Winter Whiteout 5 Cargo at Whitney Peak Hotel, Reno, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.

PROJECT flow #18 Hip Hop Contest Jub Jub’s Thirst Parlor, Reno, 8:30 p.m.

The Look Boomtown Casino, Verdi, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Dante Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 9:30 p.m.

Ignite Harveys Lake Tahoe, Stateline, 10 p.m.

Dj Lucky & Dj Bacy w/Fancy Puma Crystal Bay Casino, Crystal Bay, 10 p.m.

JANUARY 27 | SUNDAY Live Music Heavenly Village, South Lake Tahoe, 11 a.m.

“The Dresser” Bruka Theatre, Reno, 2 p.m.

Artificial Jungle Restless Artists Theatre Company, Sparks, 2 p.m.

Barefoot in the Park Reno Little Theater, Reno, 2 p.m.

Live DJ Heavenly Village, South Lake Tahoe, 3-6 p.m.

Fiddler on the Roof JR Truckee Community Arts Center, Truckee, 2 p.m.

Piano Project The Potentialist Workshop, Reno, 4-8 p.m.

Dante Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Big Head Todd & the Monsters w/The Main Squeeze Crystal Bay Casino, Crystal Bay, 8 p.m.

Deep House Lounge The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 10 p.m.-12 a.m.

JANUARY 28 | MONDAY Live Music Heavenly Village, South Lake Tahoe, 11 a.m.

Piano Project The Potentialist Workshop, Reno, 4-8 p.m.

Red Dog Open Mic Red Dog Saloon, Virginia City, 7-10 p.m.

Karaoke Polo Lounge, Reno, 7-11 p.m.

Magic Fusion Starring Eric Buss The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 7-8:15 p.m.

Open Mic Night Alibi Ale Works - Truckee Public House, Truckee, 7-10 p.m.

JANUARY 2 | TUESDAY Live Music Heavenly Village, South Lake Tahoe, 11 a.m.

Piano Project The Potentialist Workshop, Reno, 4-8 p.m.

Bingo Tuesday’s with T~n~Keys MidTown Wine Bar, Reno, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Magic Fusion Starring Eric Buss The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 7-8:15 p.m.

Meshes Video Art with Devin Troy Strother The Holland Project, Reno, 7-8:15 p.m.

Get Bent: Reflections Reno Little Theater, Reno, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Greg Morton Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Amigo the Devil, Harley Poe Jub Jub’s Thirst Parlor, Reno, 8:30 p.m.

JANUARY 30 | WEDNESDAY Live Music Heavenly Village, South Lake Tahoe, 11 a.m.

Piano Project The Potentialist Workshop, Reno, 4-8 p.m.

Wednesday Workshops The Potentialist Workshop, Reno, 6-9 p.m.

Salsa Social Dance Yaple’s Ballroom, Carson City, 6-8 p.m.

Live Music Glen Eagles Restaurant & Lounge, Carson City, 6:30-9 p.m.

Live Music with No Drama MidTown Wine Bar, Reno, 7-10 p.m.

Greg Morton Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

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Blues Brothers

BENEFIT FOR INNERRHYTHMS STORY BY SEAN MCALINDIN

Jan. 30 | 8 p.m. | Za’s Lakefront | Tahoe City Feb. 2 | 7:30 p.m. | Art Truckee | Truckee

C A L E N D A R | JAN. 24-FEB. 7, 2019 JAN. 30 | WEDNESDAY CONTINUED FROM PAGE 19

Blues Brothers: A Night of Performing Arts Za’s Lakefront, Tahoe City, 8 p.m.

Wacky Wednesday Karaoke Reno Pizza Baron, Reno, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Open Mic Anything Goes Jimmy Bs, Reno, 9-11:30 p.m.

JANUARY 31 | THURSDAY

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rowing up in Los Alamos, N.M., a young Michael Schermer pointed his sisters’ handheld transistor radio at the corner of his house and worked the dial.

With just the right weather and timing, he could tune into 1070 WDIA out of Memphis a clean 900 miles beyond the flatlands of the Bible Belt.

If you’ve ever spun an AM dial on a lost, lonely, cross-country night drive, you may have noticed the radio begin to pick up stations from far away. This natural magic trick is caused by changes in the ionosphere that allow radio waves absorbed by the outer atmospheric layer during the day to be reflected rather than absorbed, thereby skipping them across vast distances.

Sam [Cooke] and Dave [Lil’ Dave Thompson]. It was pop culture. We watched it on Saturday Night Live.”

Both events are being produced by local entertainer, promoter and owner of Art Truckee gallery, Michelle Erskine.

“Michelle booked me for Truckee Thursdays and a few other gigs last year,” says Schermer. “When she approached me about doing a benefit concert with a Blues Brothers theme, I figured it could be a good way to ensconce myself in the Truckee-Tahoe music scene while doing some songs that I already know.”

Schermer fronted his first band in Los Alamos called Billie Blast Off & The Rockets at age 14.

Mighty Mike Schermer will be teaming up with members of The Blues Monsters and Groove Foundry to create a supergroup in the mold of The Blues Brothers.

“Being at 7,000 feet and curvature of the earth from across Texas I could pick it up late at night,” he says. “Needless to say, I stayed up way past my bedtime.”

Fortunately, Schermer’s physicist father and closet Rat Pack fan mom didn’t mind too much.

“I got the golden treatment since my three older sisters broke every rule in the book before I ever came along,” he says.

Nowadays, Schermer is known by stage name Mighty Mike Schermer. In addition to fronting his own blues band, he is a session guitar player with an array of wellknown roots and blues artists including Marcia Ball, Bonnie Raitt, Elvin Bishop and Charlie Musselwhite.

Schermer will be teaming up with members of The Blues Monsters and Groove Foundry to create a supergroup in the mold of The Blues Brothers for two concerts to benefit InnerRhythms dance studio in Truckee. Called “Blues Brothers: A Night of Performing Arts,” the concerts will be at Za’s Lakefront in Tahoe City on Jan. 30 and Art Truckee on Feb. 3.

“For a lot of people in my age group, the Blues Brothers were a bridge to that type of music,” says Schermer. “We heard them do tunes before we ever heard them by

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“At that point, it was really more of an excuse to get together at the drummer’s house and eat his parents’ ice cream,” he says.

Because his sisters eventually went on the straight and narrow, Mighty Mike got to be the black sheep of the family. After high school, he moved to California to attend University of California, Santa Cruz.

It was there that he had the life-changing experience of attending an Albert Collins concert on campus for $3.

“That first note changed my life and everything I knew about the blues,” says Schermer.

“He came out incredibly loud and powerful.

He played one huge note. The tone and feeling were pure and unadulterated.”

When he’s not on tour, Schermer is working on his song craft.

“Over the last 10 years I’ve really developed as songwriter,” he says. “Somebody tells me a story and the first thing I think is: There’s a good song. Wherever I am, I try to write it down.”

Appropriately, one of his most popular songs is called “Big Sister’s Radio.”

“They’re still fighting over whose radio it is to this day,” says Schermer. “I know one sister gave it to the other one at some point, but I’ve since lost track.” | zaslakefront.com, arttruckee.com 

Live Music Heavenly Village, South Lake Tahoe, 11 a.m.

Piano Project The Potentialist Workshop, Reno, 4-8 p.m.

Argentine Tango Classes The Ballroom of Reno, Reno, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Live Music Glen Eagles Restaurant & Lounge, Carson City, 6:30-9 p.m.

Live Music Cottonwood Hilltop Restaurant, Truckee, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Magic Fusion starring Robert Hall The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 7-8:15 p.m.

Railroad Earth MontBleu Resort, Stateline, 7 p.m.

Lil Xan Jub Jub’s Thirst Parlor, Reno, 7-11 p.m.

“The Dresser” Bruka Theatre, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Winter Journey Nightingale Concert Hall, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Barefoot in the Park Reno Little Theater, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Greg Morton Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Whitey Morgan, Alex Williams Cargo at Whitney Peak Hotel, Reno, 8 p.m.

Magic Fusion Starring Robert Hall The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 9-10:15 p.m.

Live Music Bar of America, Truckee, 9:30-11:55 p.m.

Cabaret Lounge performers Carson Valley Inn, Minden

FEBRUARY 1 | FRIDAY Live Music Heavenly Village, South Lake Tahoe, 11 a.m.

Tuck Wilson Tahoe City, 6-9 p.m.

Live Music Glen Eagles Restaurant & Lounge, Carson City, 6:30-9 p.m.

Live Music Sands Regency Casino Hotel, Reno, 7-11 p.m.

Evening of Improv Comedy Brewery Arts Center, Carson City, 7-9 p.m.

Magic Fusion starring Robert Hall The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 7-8:15 p.m.

Tower Of Power MontBleu Resort, Stateline, 7 p.m.

Vanities Imagination Theater, Placerville, 7-9 p.m.

Carson Comedy Club Carson Nugget, Carson City, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Shakespeare in Love Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, Reno, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

“The Dresser” Bruka Theatre, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Barefoot in the Park Reno Little Theater, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Greg Morton Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Chris Costa Tahoe Biltmore Lodge & Casino, Crystal Bay, 8 p.m.

Karaoke Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village, 8-11 p.m.

Live Music Moody’s Bistro, Bar & Beats, Truckee, 8-11:55 p.m.

Robbie Polomsky Bar of America, Truckee, 9-9:30 p.m.

Greg Morton Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 9:30 p.m.

Soul - Funk - Disco Party The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 10 p.m.-12 a.m.

Thermites SoundSystem Crystal Bay Casino, Crystal Bay, 10 p.m.

Wormhole Tahoe w/Chase Manhattan, Aztek & Beatkarma Tahoe Art Haus & Cinema, Tahoe City, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

“Galileo” Bruka Theatre, Reno Cabaret Lounge performers Carson Valley Inn, Minden

FEBRUARY 2 | SATURDAY Live Music Heavenly Village, South Lake Tahoe, 11 a.m.

Live DJ Heavenly Village, South Lake Tahoe, 3-6 p.m.

Monthly Dinner Murder Mystery SureStay Plus Hotel by Best Western Reno Airport, Reno, 5:30-9 p.m.

Mike Badinger Tahoe City, 6-9 p.m.

Live Music Glen Eagles Restaurant & Lounge, Carson City, 6:30-9 p.m.

Live Music Sands Regency Casino Hotel, Reno, 7-11 p.m.

Tower Of Power MontBleu Resort, Stateline, 7 p.m.

Come in from the Cold Bartley Ranch Regional Park, Reno, 7 p.m.

Mini Kiss Harrah’s Lake Tahoe, Stateline, 7:30 p.m.

Carson Comedy Club Carson Nugget, Carson City, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Shakespeare in Love Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, Reno, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

“The Dresser” Bruka Theatre, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Barefoot in the Park Reno Little Theater, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Greg Morton Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Blues Brothers: A Night of Performing Arts Art Truckee, Truckee, 7:30 p.m.

Chris Costa Tahoe Biltmore Lodge & Casino, Crystal Bay, 8 p.m.

Whose Live Anyway Pioneer Center, Reno 8 p.m.

Wild Child & Purple Haze Crystal Bay Casino, Crystal Bay, 9 p.m.

Robby Polomsky Bar of America, Truckee, 9-9:30 p.m.

Magic Fusion starring Robert Hall The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 9-10:15 p.m.

Magic Fusion Starring Robert Hall The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 9-10:15 p.m.

Wild Child & Purple Haze Crystal Bay Casino, Crystal Bay, 9 p.m.

Greg Morton Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 9:30 p.m.

Ignite Harveys Lake Tahoe, Stateline, 10 p.m.

Pegboard Nerds at The Bluebird The BlueBird Nightclub, Reno, 10 p.m.-3 a.m.

Luca Lush ‘Another Life” Tour 1up, Reno, 10 p.m.

Cabaret Lounge performers Carson Valley Inn, Minden

FEBRUARY 3 | SUNDAY Live Music Heavenly Village, South Lake Tahoe, 11 a.m.

“The Dresser” Bruka Theatre, Reno, 2 p.m.

Barefoot in the Park Reno Little Theater, Reno, 2:30 p.m.

Live DJ Heavenly Village, South Lake Tahoe, 3-6 p.m.

Big Game Bash Grand Sierra Resort, Reno, 3:30 p.m.

Magic Fusion starring Robert Hall The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 4:30-5:45 p.m.

Magic Fusion Starring Robert Hall The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 7-8:15 p.m.

Deep House Lounge The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 10 p.m.-12 a.m.

FEBRUARY 4 | MONDAY Live Music Heavenly Village, South Lake Tahoe, 11 a.m.

Jan. 24-Feb. 6, 2019

BEATS ANTIQUE

MUSIC SCENE

TROMBONE SHORTY &

ORLEANS AVENUE Jan. 26 | 8 p.m.

MontBleu Resort Casino | Stateline, Nev. NEW ORLEANS HORN player, producer and actor Troy Andrews, better known as Trombone Shorty, delivers his funky, soul band Orleans Avenue to Stateline for one night only. | montbleuresort.com

WORLD DANCE

Jan. 26 | 7:30 p.m.

Harrah’s Lake Tahoe | Stateline, Nev.

SUNSQUABI

TRAVIS TRITT Mathieu Bitton

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JAZZ

West Coast Swing Dance Carson Lanes Family Fun Center, Carson City, 5:30-10 p.m.

Bluegrass Open Jam Session Alibi Ale Works - Truckee Public House, Truckee, 6-9 p.m.

Karaoke Polo Lounge, Reno, 7-11 p.m.

Magic Fusion Starring Robert Hall The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 7-8:15 p.m.

Tropa Magica, Acid Reality Casualty Test The Holland Project, Reno, 7-10 p.m.

Tany Jane Carson Valley Inn, Minden

FEBRUARY 5 | TUESDAY

ELECTRO-FUNK

Feb. 7 | 9 p.m.

Crystal Bay Casino | Crystal Bay, Nev. COLORADO-BASED SunSquabi was born deep in the cosmos in an ethereal place where jam bands and electronic dance music intersect with rhythm-driven funk. | crystalbaycasino.com

LUCA LUSH

EDM

Feb. 2 | 10 p.m.

1up Reno | Reno, Nev. BROOKLYN ARTIST Luca Lush taught himself to play drums, which he did in scene bands until he went to college — where he discovered drums don’t fit in dorm rooms. He put down the sticks, began programming beats on his computer and has since made a name for himself in the electronic music scene on a worldwide stage. | 1upreno.com

Live Music Heavenly Village, South Lake Tahoe, 11 a.m.

Cantus Nightingale Concert Hall, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Latin Dance Night!

Alibi Ale Works - Truckee Public House, Truckee, 7:30-10:30 p.m.

Bill Dawes Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Melvin Seals w/Terrapin Flyer MontBleu Resort, Stateline, 9 p.m.

Tany Jane Carson Valley Inn, Minden

Shakespeare in Love Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, Reno, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

“The Dresser” Bruka Theatre, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Aida Rodriguez Pioneer Underground, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Bill Dawes Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Magic Fusion Starring Matt Marcy The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 9-10:15 p.m.

SunSquabi Crystal Bay Casino, Crystal Bay, 9 p.m.

Live Music Bar of America, Truckee, 9:30-11:55 p.m.

Decoy Carson Valley Inn, Minden

COUNTRY

Jan. 25 | 8 p.m.

Nugget Casino Resort | Sparks, Nev. GEORGIA-BORN SINGER and songwriter Travis Tritt has been making country hits for nearly three decades. | nuggetcasinoresort.com

FEBRUARY 6 | WEDNESDAY Live Music Heavenly Village, South Lake Tahoe, 11 a.m.

Wednesday Workshops The Potentialist Workshop, Reno, 6-9 p.m.

Salsa Social Dance Yaple’s Ballroom, Carson City, 6-8 p.m.

Live Music Glen Eagles Restaurant & Lounge, Carson City, 6:30-9 p.m.

Magic Fusion Starring Robert Hall The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 7-8:15 p.m.

“The Dresser” Bruka Theatre, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Bill Dawes Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Shaggy 2 Dope, Ouija Macc Jub Jub’s Thirst Parlor, Reno, 8:30 p.m.

Wacky Wednesday Karaoke Reno Pizza Baron, Reno, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Open Mic Anything Goes Jimmy Bs, Reno, 9-11:30 p.m.

Tany Jane Carson Valley Inn, Minden

FEBRUARY 7 | THURSDAY Live Music Heavenly Village, South Lake Tahoe, 11 a.m.

Live Music Glen Eagles Restaurant & Lounge, Carson City, 6:30-9 p.m.

Live Music Cottonwood Hilltop Restaurant, Truckee, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Aida Rodriguez Reno Tahoe Comedy, Reno, 6:30 p.m.

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SIERRA STORIES

BY MARK McLAUGHLIN

Ne vada’s Undefeated Ski Season old alpine skis cut down and then routered underneath.

On weekends, the Nevada team traveled to Cisco where the Auburn Ski Club had a ski jump. At Cisco they trained with some of the best jumpers in the country. The college boys learned from top skiers such as Andy Blodger, Sig Vettestad and, of course, Roy Mikkelsen, star of the Auburn Ski Club and America’s national champion.

The Nevada ski program was in its infancy, but all the hard work and practice

Although the Nevada ski program was just three years old in 1939, there was no

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n 1939, 80 years ago this winter, a dedicated group of young men on the University of Nevada ski team were training for their best season yet. The ski program was new and the team had struggled against larger universities in the West, but now Wayne Poulsen was their coach and expectations were high on the squad.

Coach Poulsen was a real competitor who had grown up in Reno and cut his teeth in collegiate skiing as the University of Nevada’s team captain and jumping champion. After graduation, Poulsen took over as coach. A noted ski pioneer, Poulsen established Nevada’s first ski area with a gasoline-powered rope tow at Grass Lake near Mount Rose. In 1943, he purchased land in Squaw Valley, the first step in that resort’s future development as a major ski area and eventual host for the 1960 Winter Olympics.

Poulsen organized Nevada’s first ski team as an undergraduate in 1936, but it wasn’t recognized by the university until 1937. In the early years, the athletes received no funding and usually had to find their own transportation to meets as far away as Utah. Poulsen was undeterred: “We’ll compete against the nation’s best, even if we have to travel to Salt Lake on our skis.”

Although the Nevada ski program was just three years old in 1939, there was no lack of excellent skiers trying to make the team. But it wasn’t easy. For many years, American intercollegiate ski competition followed the European tradition where

The 1939 Nevada ski team with Wayne Poulsen at far left. | Courtesy Mark McLaughlin

each skier had to compete in all four disciplines: downhill, slalom, cross-country and jumping. Coach Poulsen later said, “We could not afford any prima donnas. Our best alpine man was also a very good jumper, but we had to take him off the team because he wouldn’t run cross-country.”

There was no doubt that Poulsen’s 1939 team was tough and skilled. Under his experienced tutelage, the squad went undefeated and won that year’s National Collegiate Ski Championship — or so they claimed.

That intercollegiate requirement demanded well-rounded skiers who could uncork a killer launch off a scaffold-built ski jump, schuss downhill at top speed and handle the kick and glide endurance of a fast-paced cross-country race. The downhill and slalom races were tough with minimal course grooming. There were no gates as in the modern downhill, but a gate where you started and a gate at the finish. The skier picked the fastest line down the hill.

There were no chairlifts to take skiers up for training runs. Bindings were fashioned out of heavy copper plates with the edges bent up around the skier’s leather boots.

Unlike modern safety bindings that release when stressed to prevent leg and ankle injuries, early downhill skiers used leather straps laced through slots in the skis and then wrapped around the boot. Their wooden skis were homemade with metal edges screwed on. Cross-country skis were

lack of excellent skiers trying to make the team. But it wasn’t easy. came together for the team during that 1939 season when they finally toppled the University of Washington Huskies, the perennial Pacific Coast champs. The Huskies had always beaten the Wolf Pack, but only by narrow margins. Nevada’s first victory over Washington was achieved after the team staged an impressive comeback at the final meet held at Yosemite’s Badger Pass.

On Day 1 of the competition, the team was off to a poor start. Plagued by injuries and far from full strength, they lost the opening cross-country ski event so badly that they were almost out of the running.

But Nevada pulled back from defeat. Dick Mitchell came blasting down the downhill and slalom runs to take first in the alpine and downhill events leading Nevada to within striking distance of the leaders. Nevadan Marti Arrougé also took a top position in the downhill, but on the next run he crashed into a tree stump after swerving to avoid a group of spectators that had crowded onto the course. Nearly threequarters of a mile from the finish line and suffering from painful injuries, Arrougé gathered himself together and finished the run, turning in a time that when figured with the performances of his teammates, gave Nevada first place in the event.

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but non-life-threatening injuries. His teammates were distracted by the medical emergency, but the contest wasn’t over and with Arrougé out of the competition, the Huskies smelled blood. Handicapped by the loss of Arrougé and other star performers, Nevada seemed destined for another close defeat, but four of their skiers finished among the top 10 in the jumping competition, taking the event, the meet and the coast title.

The claim that the Nevada ski team won the 1939 National Collegiate Championship was not exactly true. They had outscored every college they competed against, but they never skied head-to-head against Dartmouth College from New Hampshire, considered the team to beat.

Nevada based the victory on a “comparison of results,” because they had beaten a strong University of Washington team by a larger point margin than Dartmouth had. Ultimately, at the time no team could claim a national championship because there was no nationally sanctioned authority for intercollegiate skiing until 1954 when the first NCAA National Intercollegiate Ski Championships were held at Slide Mountain.

The young athletes on the 1939 University of Nevada ski team were champions in every sense of the word. During War World II, the skill and courage that they showed on the race course were the same characteristics that made them heroes in both war and peacetime. Grit and determination are the hallmarks of true competitors and these guys had it in spades.

Wayne Poulsen, who died in 1995, was proud of his alma mater’s skiing program: “The Nevada ski team has produced more national champions, more Olympic team members and more national and international recognition than any other group of athletes from UNR.” That’s quite a legacy and one that these young students had a right to be proud of.  Tahoe historian Mark McLaughlin is a nationally published author and professional speaker. His award-winning books are available at local stores or at thestormking.com. You may reach him at mark@ thestormking.com. Check out his blog at tahoenuggets.com or read more at TheTahoeWeekly.com.

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Jan. 24-Feb. 6, 2019

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Old Trestle Distillery brings distilling back to Truckee offering its first locally made spirit: Theory Gin 001, as first reported at TheTahoeWeekly.com.

Theory Gin 001 is available exclusively at the Old Trestle Distillery production facility in Truckee on River Park Place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. | oldtrestle.com

Two new bars at Diamond Peak Diamond Peak has opened two new bars featuring a great selection of local craft beers from Incline Village-based Alibi Ale Works.

The Million Dollar View Bar is located at the Snowflake Lodge, with views that give the bar its name, where guests can enjoy the Snowflake White IPA, brewed for Diamond Peak by Alibi Ale Works. At the Diamond Peak Base Lodge, the Alibi Ale Works Pop Up Bar offers guests two Alibi Ale Works beers on tap.

The brewery, which is 3 miles from the resort, plans to bring in a rotating selection of its favorite brews, as well as some more experimental options throughout the season. | diamondpeak.com

New Fat Cat location Fat Cat Bar & Grill in Tahoe City is expanding with a new Midtown Reno location opening this spring. The new location will be located at Mt. Rose Street and South Virginia. | Fat Cat on Facebook CONTINUED ON PAGE 24

S T O R Y & P H O T O S B Y P R I YA H U T N E R

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aby, it’s cold outside and the perfect time for a cup of hot chocolate.

There is certain magic sitting by the fire, the wood crackling, your hands wrapped around a hot mug while the aroma of chocolaty goodness envelops you like a warm, fuzzy blanket. Hot chocolate brings out the kid in all of us. There are so many versions of hot-chocolate creations it can make one’s head spin.

Instant hot chocolate is one way to go, open the packet and throw it in some water and in less than a few minutes you’re sipping away. But there are many ways to make the perfect chocolaty beverage with little effort. These recipes will take your cup of hot chocolate to a whole other level and offer a specialty drink that will impress.

There’s the old-school method of hot chocolate with Hershey’s syrup and milk, that is super easy. Add 1 or 2 teaspoons of syrup into a cup of warm milk. Top it off with a few marshmallows, a good dose of whipped cream and a drizzle of syrup. The kids will be thrilled. Ghirardelli cocoa makes a pretty delicious hot-cocoa beverage. Stir the cocoa into a cup of warm milk and enjoy.

the fat (cacao butter). Cocoa powder is raw cacao that’s been roasted. Cacao is the purest form of chocolate and less processed than cocoa powder. Cacao is also a source of antioxidants and magnesium.

TRY DAIRY-FREE MILKS

I love cacao and making a cup of hot chocolate with raw cacao is divine.

Publisher Katherine Hill uses baking cocoa with a dash of pure vanilla extract to prepare her cup of hot chocolate. Dark chocolate or cacao is my preferred route.

I love Altar Eco chocolate, but any good bar of dark chocolate will do the trick and with so many flavors to choose from, you can create some pretty exciting variations.

Chuao Chocolatier (pronounced chewwow) is a Venezuelan chocolatier based in Southern California. It has a number of unique chocolate bars: bacon, salted caramel or rocky-road, which all make for interesting cups of hot chocolate. For true marshmallow fans, try a dark chocolate s’mores bar melted in heavy cream and topped with extra marshmallows.

Consider giving your hot chocolate a Mexican twist. The Mi Pueblito Market in Truckee sells Mexican hot-chocolate wafers. Add the wafer to warm milk and melt it. Then add a touch of chili spice, cayenne, cinnamon and sugar, and serve hot with whipped cream.

I love cacao and making a cup of hot chocolate with raw cacao is divine. What is the difference between cacao and cocoa anyway? Cacao is made by cold-pressing raw cacao beans. The process keeps the living enzymes in the cacao and removes

While writing this article, I took a break and went to the kitchen to experiment. In my fridge I found a bottle of Ripple Pea Milk. I poured 12 ounces of the dairy-free milk into a small pot with a teaspoon of coconut butter and warmed it on medium heat. Once the coconut butter was melted, I added a teaspoon of cacao powder. As it heated up, the kitchen erupted with thick smells of luscious aromatic chocolate. I added a teaspoon of maple syrup and a pinch of salt and poured the rich darkchocolate beverage into a stem-less wine glass. It was delicious. I decided to add a sprinkle of chili powder. I loved the little extra kick.

My next experiment was an Indian version of hot chocolate. Using the dairyfree milk, I added ground ginger, cinnamon, cardamom powder, cloves, a pinch of ground pepper and a dash of maple syrup for a chai-flavored hot chocolate. This was pretty fabulous. I think it would be the perfect dessert after a bowl of dal and basmati rice.

Extracts are also a delightful way to perk up your hot chocolate: vanilla, anise, almond and mint extracts offer a variety of flavors for any palate.

Want a creamier version? Make your beverage with heavy cream or half and half. For a nondairy version, homemade cashew milk is the way to go for a creamy consistency.

Adult versions of hot chocolate might include Baily’s Irish Cream, Amaretto or Frangelico for an after-ski warmup or

Hot chocolate ingredients with which to experiment.

Sunday brunch. I love a theme: use tequila for a Mexican theme, Amaretto for an Italian theme, Baily’s for an Irish one or Grand Marnier for a French one.

HOST A HOT CHOCOLATE BAR

Here are some fun ways to create and host a hot chocolate bar. For the base consider milk, half and half or heavy cream.

For dairy-free versions use almond milk, cashew milk, oat milk or coconut milk.

Use dark chocolate, flavored chocolate bars, cocoa or cacao or try a white-chocolate variation. Added flavors can include extracts and spices; chili, salt, cayenne and cardamom are wonderful to add to a beverage. If you need a little extra sweetener, add a touch of sugar, stevia, maple syrup or honey. Flavored whipped cream is another fabulous touch.

With all the variations, have fun playing and experimenting. Then sit back, relax and enjoy a warm cup of hot chocolate, cocoa or cacao. 

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CHAI HOT CHOCOLATE 8 oz. almond milk 1 t cacao powder ½ t ground cinnamon ½ t ground cardamom powder ½ t ground cloves ½ t ground ginger Ground pepper, to taste Maple syrup, to taste

Warm the milk. Add cacao powder and spices. If you want, add a pinch of ground pepper and a dash of maple syrup. Enjoy.

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It Starts with Wine WINERAM Productions, based in Tahoe City,is the production team behind “It Starts with Wine,” a new original series from Wine Enthusiast Media that premiered on Amazon Prime Video on Jan. 4.

The episodic series travels the globe and follows the world’s best winemakers, growers, producers and personalities.

There’s science

in those cocktails

Stir things up at the U.C. Davis Tahoe Science Center at Science of Cocktails on Feb.1.

From 6 to 8 p.m., participants can enjoy science-themed cocktails, enlightening activities and exciting demonstrations. There will be do-it-yourself stations including bitters making, a liquid nitrogen ice cream bar and more.

Tickets are $65 and include two specialty drinks and appetizers by Men Wielding Fire. Additional drinks are $5 each. Participants must be age 21 or older and must register online.

Proceeds directly support the U.C. Davis Tahoe Science Center and its science education programs. | (775) 881-7566, tahoe.ucdavis.edu

The show’s director and executive producer is Tahoe local Colin West, and several of the cinematographers are also local including Truckee native Matt Hardy, South Shore photographer Brad Scott and Blaise Bertucci. Additionally, the behind-thescenes crew comes from the North Shore. | itstartswithwine.com, wineram.com

Farm Shop Tahoe Food Hub | Tahoe City Jan. 24, 31, Feb. 1, 7

Shop for yourself and taste the difference that local makes. Choose from seasonal fruits and veggies, as well as a variety of local specialty food products and pastureraised meet, eggs and dairy. 12-6 p.m. | tahoefoodhub.org

Meet the Winery: Winter Series Uncorked Tahoe City Tahoe City | Jan. 26

Uncorked Tahoe City Meet the Winery event with Williams Selyem. Enjoy a flight and learn more about the philosophy in making these delicious wines. 5-7 p.m. | uncorkedtahoe.com

Reno Beer Crawl Downtown | Reno | Jan. 26

Enter the wacky world of the Reno Beer Crawl. Purchase a commemorative cup or glass and get drink specials at as many as 20 different locations. It’s an easy walk (or crawl) to each downtown location. $5 | renobeercrawl.com

Art of Mixology The Ritz-Carlton | Truckee Jan. 27, Feb. 3

This entertaining, educational experience will feature freshly cut herbs, classic ingredients such as bitters and infused liquors to create three unique cocktails paired with appetizers. 4-5 p.m. $60 | ritzcarlton.com

Cooking Matters series Sierra Village Apartments office Truckee | Jan. 29, Feb. 5

Class series includes how to easily prepare and shop for delicious and nutritious foods on a budget, free recipes and meals plans, how to stretch ingredients and food dollars, and hands-on food preparation and sampling. Class is offered in English and Spanish. 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Free | (530) 5873769, tfhd.com

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Dine out for Restaurant Week Celebrate the South Shore’s unique culinary and craft beer culture with the Elevate Your Palate Restaurant Week.

Visit participating restaurants for special menu specials throughout Elevate your Palate Restaurant Week and celebrate the unique culinary culture offered on the South Shore. Visit the Web site for participating restaurants and specials. | tahoechamber.org

Plaza Bar | Olympic Valley Jan. 25, Feb. 1

Kick off the weekend with Friday Night Tasting Notes every Friday. Tantalize your taste buds with a tasting of craft beers or specialty spirits from our favorite breweries, wineries and distilleries from 3:30 to 5 p.m. 3:30 p.m. | squawalpine.com

Meet the Winery Winter Series Uncorked Truckee | Truckee | Jan. 25

Uncorked Truckee Meet the Winery Event with Williams Selyem. Enjoy a flight and learn more about the philosophy in making these delicious wines. 5-7 p.m. | uncorkedtahoe.com

Spaghetti Dinner Truckee Community Recreation Center Truckee | Jan. 26

The 18th annual Spaghetti Dinner, Bingo and Auction to benefit Sierra Seniors Services is at Truckee’s Community Recreation Center.

Tickets are $30. Purchase online at sierraseniors.org or at Plumas Bank in Truckee. At the door tickets will be $35. 5-9 p.m. $30-$35 | seirraseniors.org

BrewHaHa Nugget Casino Resort Sparks | Jan. 26 Our mission is to reduce the incidence of hunger and its detrimental effects upon individuals, families, the community and the region.

WEEKLY FOOD DISTRIBUTION: MONDAYS TAHOE CITY

WEDNESDAYS KINGS BEACH

3:00pm to 3:30pm Fairway Community Ctr. 330 Fairway Dr.

3:00pm to 3:30pm Community House 265 Bear St.

TUESDAYS TRUCKEE

THURSDAYS INCLINE VILLAGE

3:30pm to 4pm Sierra Senior Center 10040 Estates Dr.

3:00pm to 3:30pm St. Patrick’s Church 341 Village Blvd.

(775) 298-4161

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The 24th annual Brew HaHa beer tasting and entertainment fundraiser event is in the Nugget’s Grand Ballroom. There will be more than 100 types of beer available for unlimited tastings and live music by Left of Center. The event raises funding for the Sierra Arts Foundation in Northern Nevada to support area artists and community arts programs. 7-11 p.m. $50-$70 | (775) 3563300, facebook.com

Science of Cocktails Sierra Nevada College Incline Village | Feb. 1

Stir things up at the UC Davis Tahoe Science Center. Enjoy science-themed cocktails with enlightening activities and demonstrations. Get crafty this year with DIY stations including bitters-making, liquid nitrogen ice cream bar, and more. 5-7:30 p.m. $65 | (775) 881-7566, sierranevada.edu

Wine Walk Downtown Carson City Carson City | Feb. 2

The Downtown Wine Walk held the first Saturday of every month. Purchase tickets at: The Carson Nugget, Cactus Jack’s, Carson Jewelry and Loan, Bella Fiore and Touched by Angels. 1-5 p.m. $15 | visitcarsoncity.com

Mountain Family Dinner Series Northstar California Resort Truckee | Feb. 2

Enjoy mountain dining at Mid-Mountain.

Load the Big Springs Gondola to Mid-Mountain, enjoy a family-style interactive dinner, stop for a family photo and then cozy up by the fire with s’mores. 5-9 p.m. | (800) 4666784, eventbrite.com

Carson City Wine Walk Downtown | Carson City | Feb. 2

On the first Saturday of every month, participants can stroll to 35 locations for wine, entertainment and special deals for wine walkers. | downtowncarson.org

Visit the Event Calendar at TheTahoeWeekly.com for a complete list of events.

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his is the story of Norwegian shipowner Dan Odfjell, who discovered the land and wines of Chile in the early 1990s and reaped treasures in the cool climates and unique soils of coastal and mountain valleys. These terroirs have never been visited by major vine diseases and therefore have some of the world’s oldest vines still on native roots. Odfjell Vineyards is also all in on sustainable practices because the vineyards are certified organic.

Odfjell Vineyards Carignan compares favorably with the best single-varietal Carignans from the south of France, widely

Odfjell’s organic vineyards. | Courtesy Odfjell Vineyards

climate region usually reserved for other grapes. The combination of the richer and less-ripe grapes gives this wine a freshness and high-note quality that sings with food.

Think South American chimichurri on just about anything as a match for this wine.

Next up was an old-vine Carignan called Orzada, which is a nautical term for sailing up against the wind before setting a direction. Orzada’s grapes come from vines almost a century old. This wine compares favorably with the best singlevarietal Carignans from the south of France, widely regarded the world standard. Blue and red berries, beams of acidity and minerality, and a distinct lick of licorice make for a complex quaff that is one of a kind.

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Sure, we all like a tale of jolly Norwegians gallivanting about the planet and respecting the soil, but what about the wines? Well, the short version is that in a world where every brand claims its wines have a sense of place with values at their price, Odfjell Vineyards delivers on both counts.

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The wine crew tasted three of their signature reds starting with their entrylevel Cabernet Sauvignon. As an homage to Mr. Odfjell, it is called Armador, which means shipowner in Spanish. This is about as good as this style of Cabernet gets at $15. The fruit comes from the Maule and Casablanca valleys, the former being a popular place for Bordeaux grapes in Chile.

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If you’ve never had a Carignan that makes you stand up and take notice, this is a good place to invest $23 on your wine journey.

Odfjell’s flagship wine is labeled Aliara; a liara was a tin-cup measurement of the crews’ daily ration of wine. An assemblage of Carignan, Syrah and Malbec, this $44 wine pushes the envelope for what most pay for Chilean wine, but the 2013 version we tasted brought all the thunder necessary to validate the price. Featuring deepdark expressive aromas and flavors with an extra-long finish on the palate, it can stand toe to toe with a quality Châteauneuf-du-Pape.

In addition to being worth a visit on their quality merits and nautical themes, these wines make great gifts for friends with the wind in their veins.  Lou Phillips is a Level 3 Advanced Sommelier in Tahoe and his consulting business wineprowest. com assists in the selling, buying and managing wine collections. He may be reached at (775) 5443435 or wineguru123@gmail.com. Visit TheTahoeWeekly.com for more wine columns. Click on Wine Column under the Local Flavor tab.

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ith today’s techniques of freezing, preserving and packaging food, the difference between store bought and homemade can be minor; sometimes it is not worth the time to make some food from scratch. In the case of beef stock, however, the difference is still miles apart.

What makes most people shy away from making beef stock is the time it takes. It’s true it does take a while, but most of that time is spent in cooking, depending on what you make. The liquid in the pot reduced by half is a stock. Thicken that with roux and it is a brown sauce. Reduce the stock by half again and it is a demi-glace.

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The only equipment you need is a stock pot and a roasting pan. Obviously, the bigger the stock pot, the bigger the batch of stock. I used a 3.5-gallon pot for years, but then I got a 5-gallon pot and I love it.

I will never use a pot bigger than this on my house stove and will only use this for low-heat cooking. The reason is that if the pan is much bigger than your burner it will reflect too much heat back at your stove and that can cause damage to the stove or even fire (the same is true for large sauté pans). I use my 5-gallon pot strictly for stock, chowder or other things that need to simmer on low heat.

How I determine how many bones to use is by how many bones it will take to fill the pot no more than three-quarters to the top. Put as many bones as will fit in a roasting pan or roast them in two batches or two pans. With the larger pot, I use my roasting pan, as well as another pan. I move the oven racks so they both fit in the oven together. I rotate the two pans a few times during cooking and stir the bones more often so they cook evenly. If you don’t rotate them, one pan will finish a little sooner than the other.

The main keys are to brown the bones and vegetables as dark as possible without burning them and to simmer the stock on the stove as slowly as possible. It took me three full days for the liquid to simmer down to where I had my final product. The first batch I got about 24 ounces of demiglace, which once cooled was like a rich beef Jell-O. I then cover the bones with water again and let it simmer but not quite as far — about halfway between a stock and a demi-glace. This will not be quite as strong but still usable for most sauces or other things.

The first batch is strictly for sauces and you only need about 1 tablespoon per serving so it goes a long way. Often I will repeat the process one last time, sometimes adding a few fresh veggies just for use in soups and stews (a stock). The third batch can be a little bitter without fresh veggies and I will add a touch of sugar if needed.

Total time on the stove for all three batches was exactly one week, but I got a large quantity of quality stock and demiglace that I froze in small batches. The next time you want great beef stock, try making it from scratch and enjoy.  Smitty is a personal chef specializing in dinner parties, cooking classes and special events. Trained under Master Chef Anton Flory at Top Notch Resort in Stowe, Vt., Smitty is known for his creative use of fresh ingredients. Contact him at tmmsmitty@gmail.com or (530) 412-3598. To read archived copies of Smitty’s column, visit chefsmitty.com or TheTahoeWeekly.com. Click on Chef’s Recipe under the Local Flavor tab.

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Brown the bones until golden. Stir once in a while. Add onions, carrots, celery, cranberry sauce, juniper berries and peppercorns. Let this brown but not burn, then spread tomato paste onto the bones. Add red vinegar and brown a little more. Scoop all this into the stock pot and discard the oil.

Cover the bottom of the roasting pan with water and bring to a boil scraping all the pieces off the pan. Pour this into the stock pot and fill the pot to just below the top. Add dried rosemary, salt, bay leaves and red wine. Bring this to a boil and turn down to the lowest simmer.

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