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I’ve heard skiers laminate the lack of “epic” snowstorms this season following the 2016-17 season that brought storm after storm to the Tahoe Sierra with 3, 4 or 5 feet of snow with each system (and the accompanying power outages, road closures, avalanches and mud slides). And, I’ve heard skiers proclaim that they have had amazing ski days this season, some tallying 60 days or more on the slopes.

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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.

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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 69.2 in 2016. 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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Donovan Green enjoys a bluebird Tahoe day standup paddleboarding on Lake Tahoe in Carnelian Bay on the North Shore. | Anne Artoux

ATTRACTIONS Cave Rock

East Shore

Kings Beach

North Shore

Drive through one of the area’s natural wonders at Cave Rock, the neck of an old volcano. The area is named for the small caves above Highway 50 that were cut by waves when Lake Tahoe was 200 feet higher during the ice ages.

northtahoebusiness.org Kings Beach is a popular spot for dining and shopping with the North Shore’s largest sandy beach located in the heart of town. Free parking at North Tahoe Beach, Brook Street, Minnow and the Christmas Tree lot on Hwy. 28. TART

Donner Summit

North Tahoe Arts Center

Truckee

Donner Summit, just west of Truckee, holds the record for the United States’ snowiest April.

On April 1, 1880, a storm dumped 4’ of snow on the Sierra Nevada west slope within 24 hours.

A massive snow slide near Emigrant Gap buried Central Pacific Railroad’s tracks under 75’ of snow, ice and rock. For the rest of the month, storm cycles continued to flow in, dropping a total of 298”.

Eagle Rock

West Shore

Eagle Rock, one of the lake’s famous natural sites, is a volcanic plug beside Highway 89 on the West Shore. TART

Explore Tahoe

South Lake Tahoe

(530) 542-2908 | cityofslt.us Urban Trailhead at base of Heavenly Gondola with local exhibits and programs. BlueGo

Fannette Island

Emerald Bay

(530) 541-3030 | parks.ca.gov Lake Tahoe’s only island is located in Emerald Bay & is home to an old tea house.

Boat access only. (Closed Feb. 1-June 15 for nesting birds.)

Heavenly

South Lake Tahoe

(775) 586-7000 | skiheavenly.com Enjoy a 2.4-mile ride on the gondola to the top with panoramic views of Lake Tahoe and the Carson Valley. BlueGo

Tahoe City

Free (530) 581-2787 | northtahoearts.com Featuring exhibits of work by local artists and works for sale by local artists. TART

Tahoe Art League Gallery

South Lake Tahoe

(530) 544-2313 | talart.org Featuring local artists and workshops. Second location at Ski Run Center. BlueGo

Tahoe City

North Shore

visittahoecity.com Tahoe City is popular for shopping and dining with historical sites. At the junction of highways 89 & 28, visitors may see the Tahoe City Dam, Lake Tahoe’s only outlet, and Fanny Bridge. Peer into Watson Cabin (1909) in the center of town for a glimpse at pioneer life. Free parking at Commons Beach, Grove Street, Jackpine Street, and 64 acres at Highways 89 & 28. TART

Tallac Historic Site

South Lake Tahoe

(530) 541-5227 | tahoeheritage.org Once known as the “Grandest Resort in the World” as the summer retreat for three San Francisco elite families with the Baldwin Estate, Pope Estate & Valhalla. Grounds open yearround. BlueGo

Truckee

$10 parking | parks.ca.gov (530) 525-7232 Park | (530) 583-9911 Tours Sugar Pine Point State Park is home to the historic Ehrman Mansion (open for tours in the summer), see boathouses with historic boats, and General Phipps Cabin built in the late 1800s. TART

truckeehistory.org | truckee.com The historic town of Truckee was settled in 1863, and grew quickly as a stagecoach stop and route for the Central Pacific Railroad.

During these early days, many of Truckee’s historical homes and buildings were built including The Truckee Hotel (1868) and the Capitol Building (1868). Stop by the Depot for a walking tour of historic downtown. Paid parking downtown with free lot on Donner Pass Road next to Beacon. TART

High Camp

Vikingsholm Castle

Hellman-Ehrman Mansion

West Shore

Olympic Valley

(800) 403-0206 | squawalpine.com Aerial tram rides with views of Lake Tahoe, Olympic Heritage Museum, ice skating, events and more. Ticket required. TART

Parking fee | Tours in summer only (530) 541-3030 | (530) 525-9529 ADA parks.ca.gov or vikingsholm.com Tour the grounds of Vikingsholm Castle, see Eagle Falls and Fannette Island (the Lake’s only island), home to an old Tea House, and explore snowshoeing trails. TART

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Watson Cabin

Tahoe City

Tours in summer only (530) 583-1762 | northtahoemuseums.org Watson Cabin, built by Robert Watson and his son in 1909, is the oldest building in Tahoe City and on the National Register of Historic Places. TART

MUSEUMS Donner Memorial Visitor Center

Truckee

(530) 582-7892 | parks.ca.gov The Donner Memorial State Park features exhibits and artifacts on the Donner Party (184647) at the visitor center, and see the towering Pioneer Monument. TART

Donner Summit Historical Society

Soda Springs

donnersummithistoricalsociety.org Museum at the corner of Old Highway 40 & Soda Springs Road. Take the 20-mile interpretive driving tour along Old 40. Maps online or at museum. TART

Gatekeeper’s Museum

Tahoe City

Daily (530) 583-1762 | northtahoemuseums.org Featuring historic photos, the Steinbach Indian Basket Museum and local historical memorabilia. TART

KidZone Children’s Museum

Incline Village & Crystal Bay Historical Society Incline Village Daily | Free | tahoehistory.org Features local history exhibit focusing on 1870-1970, along with “Bonanza” exhibit. Inside Starbucks building in Incline Village. TART

(530) 583-9283 | tahoemaritimemuseum.org Featuring guided tours, exhibits and handson activities for kids on Tahoe’s maritime history. TART

Tahoe Science Center

Incline Village

Tues.-Fri. & by appt. | Free (775) 881-7566 | tahoesciencecenter.org University of California, Davis, science education center at Sierra Nevada College.

Exhibits include a virtual research boat, biology lab, 3D movies and docent-led tours. Ages 8+.

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Truckee Railroad Museum

Truckee

Sat.-Sun. & holidays truckeedonnerrailroadsociety.com Located in a caboose next to the Truckee Depot. Exhibits include the train’s role in logging, fighting snow on the railway, the role of Chinese emigrants and a children’s area. TART

Western SkiSport Museum

Donner Summit

Fri.-Sun. | Free (530) 426-3313, ext. 113 | auburnskiclub.org Showcasing the history of skiing, exhibits include snowshoes from the 1850s, ski equipment from the 20th Century and a pair of 8-footlong skis used by John “Snowshoe” Thompson, a legendary mail carrier. Located at Boreal off I-80. TART

South Lake Tahoe

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

Incline Village 969 Tahoe Blvd.

(800) 468-2463

South Lake Tahoe 3066 Lake Tahoe Blvd.

(530) 541-5255

Stateline 169 Hwy. 50 (775) 588-4591

(530) 541-5458 | laketahoemuseum.org Features Washoe artifacts and exhibits on early industry, settlers, and archival films of Tahoe. BlueGo

Tahoe City

Old Jail Museum

10065 Donner Pass Rd. (Depot) (530) 587-8808

Truckee

(530) 582-0893 | truckeehistory.org One of a few surviving 19th Century jailhouses of its kind in the West used from 1875 until May 1964 (open for tours in summer). TART

Olympic Museum

Tahoe City

Truckee

Tues.-Sun. | Locals’ first Tues. half price (530) 587-5437 | kidzonemuseum.org For kids up to age 7 with interactive exhibits, science & art classes, the BabyZone for newborns to 18 months & the Jungle Gym for toddlers and older. TART

Lake Tahoe Museum

Tahoe Maritime Museum

100 North Lake Blvd.

(530) 581-6900

Truckee

U.S. Forest Service | Incline Village 855 Alder Ave., (775) 831-0914 (Wed.-Fri.)

U.S. Forest Service | South Lake Tahoe Olympic Valley

(800) 403-0206 | squawalpine.com Squaw Valley, host of the VIII Winter Olympic Games in 1960, celebrates its Olympic History with the symbolic Tower of Nations and Olympic Flame at the entrance to the valley. The Olympic Museum at High Camp features historic memorabilia and photographs. Tram ticket required. TART

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

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STORY BY SEAN MCALINDIN

EVERY MONDAY

Silver Ski Clinics Mount Rose

The Silver Ski Clinics, for ages 50 and older, are every Monday throughout the season at Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe. Meet in Timbers in the Main Lodge at 9 a.m. for a tech talk and coffee. The group clinic is from 9:30 until 11:30 a.m. | skirose.com

Ski with a Ranger South Lake Tahoe

U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit hosts Ski with a Ranger at Heavenly Mountain Resort every Monday at 1 p.m. until April 2. Tours begin at Tamarack Lodge at the top of the Heavenly Gondola.

Lasts 1 hour. First come, first served, limited to 12. | (530) 543-2730

Free play Truckee

Truckee Library hosts an unstructured playtime for children and parents from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Toys are provided. | (530) 582-7846

EVERY TUESDAY

Season-long lessons Tahoe City

Tahoe Cross Country Ski Area offers intermediate skate ski lessons on Tuesdays at 9:15 a.m. Free with a trail pass or season pass. | tahoexc.org

Preschoolers wanted Kings Beach

Kings Beach Library offers Preschool Story Time from 10:30 to 11 a.m. on Tuesdays.

Each week is themed. | (530) 546-2012

Let’s hear it for moms Kings Beach

Mom’s Café is every Tuesday from 10:30 a.m. to noon at North Tahoe Family Resource Center. Meet other moms, get help with breastfeeding techniques, postpartum concerns, infant nutrition and infant care. Groups in English and Spanish. | northtahoefrc.org

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s I stare down into the icy blue current, goosebumps rise on my bare arms and legs. Everything in my body is telling me it doesn’t want to go in there. It’s all about mind over matter.

I take in a few deep breaths while I look over the serene landscape of my private swimming hole hidden below the crumbling igneous cliffs of the Truckee River Canyon.

Cottonwoods sway in the gentle breeze as a pair of Canada geese fly north on the rising drafts of morning air. Clumps of snow cling stubbornly to the banks.

I look back at the swirling blue hole and steel my mind for the what’s to come — for what I know I must do. For one brief moment, I will my legs to bend. I jump, diving out in a shallow arc into the water. The shock of the cold hits a half

The author’s secret winter swimming hole hidden deep in Truckee River Canyon. | Sean McAlindin

I jump, diving out in a shallow arc into the water.

The shock of the cold hits a half second later as I glide through the spinning current. second later as I glide through the spinning current. I somehow feel safe in this cold, underwater world.

I emerge downstream in a large eddy and take a huge breath. Then I try to pretend like it’s not that cold for another minute or two before I get out on the shore to warm myself in the soft sunshine. A few minutes later my body is back to equilibrium and I feel like a new man.

Toddler Time Truckee

Truckee Library hosts summer Story Time every Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. for ages 18 months to 3 years. A half-hour stay and play after the reading. | (530) 582-7846

EVERY WEDNESDAY

Season-long lessons Tahoe City

nation of hot and cold is considered to have health benefits, especially for the circulatory system. Although winter swimming isn’t inherently dangerous for most healthy people, it should be done with caution by individuals with heart and respiratory diseases or high blood pressure because the cold-shock response can lead to hyperventilation or cardiac arrest in those not accustomed to it.

This classic tradition is coming back to Tahoe in March. The first chance to get your plunge on will be on March 3 at the 30th annual Polar Bear Swim at Gar Woods Grill & Pier in Carnelian Bay as part of SnowFest where men and women will compete in a 250-yard race through 39-degree F water at 6,223 feet above sea level for up to $300 in prize money.

Then on Saint Patrick’s Day, cold-water swimming enthusiasts will have the opportunity to dash across the beach at Zephyr

Tahoe Cross Country Ski Area offers introductory skate skiing lessons on Wednesdays at 9:15 a.m. and 12:15 a.m. Free with a trail pass or season pass. | tahoexc.org

Babes in Bookland Truckee

Truckee Library hosts Story Time every Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. for ages 6 months to 2 years. A half-hour stay and play after the reading. | (530) 582-7846

Story time Zephyr Cove, Nev.

The Zephyr Cove Library hosts a children’s story time every Wednesday from 11:30 a.m. to noon. Enjoy stories, songs, activities and coloring. | (775) 588-6411

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The St. Patick’s Polar Plunge in Zephyr Cove, Nev., will benefit Special Olympics. | Courtesy Special Olympics of Northern California and Nevada

People from around the world have long participated in winter swimming as a way to celebrate the New Year. The oldest iceswimming club in the U.S. is the Coney Island Polar Bear Club whose members have braved the Atlantic Ocean outside of New York Harbor every Sunday of the winter since 1903.

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The Gar Wood’s Polar Plunge celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2018. | Dick Morton, courtesy SnowFest

Cove and dive headlong into the chilly waves of Lake Tahoe in order to raise money for the Special Olympics of Northern California and Nevada.

“The purpose of the South Lake Tahoe polar plunge is to support those children and adults with intellectual disabilities who participate in our year-round sports training programs,” says Special Olympics public relations and communications manager Tyler Krochmal. “It’s a fun way to bring the community together and put out the challenge of braving the elements in a way that directly impacts athletes all over Northern California and Nevada.”

Polar Bear Swim March 3 | 2:30 p.m.

Gar Woods Grill & Pier Carnelian Bay

Special Olympics Polar Plunge March 17 | 12 p.m.

Zephyr Cove Resort Zephyr Cove, Nev.

The Special Olympics of Northern California and Nevada has more than 24,000 participants from age 8 through 80 in 14 different sports, says Krochmal.

This year’s theme is Saint Patrick’s Day, so expect a lot of teams and individuals to be wearing green or looking like waterlogged leprechauns.

“Almost everybody dresses up in zany outfits, which certainly adds to the experience of jumping in the freezing water in March,” she says.  For more information or to register for either event, visit garwoods.com and sonc.org. Read more about the SnowFest winter carnival in this issue or at tahoesnowfest.org.

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CELEBRATE WINTER AT SNOWFEST!

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t’s a winter carnival, a mountain Mardi Gras celebration. It’s a celebration of the majesty of a winter’s season in Tahoe, of the camaraderie and goodwill among neighbors and friends, a welcoming party to all of Tahoe’s visitors, and one of the best family friendly events you’ll find anywhere. Its full of hometown nostalgia mixed with a dose of fun and games for all ages (and even the family dog), with challenges to test your mettle from wing eating contests to the Polar Bear Swim in Lake Tahoe to the snow sculpture contest.

You won’t want to miss the 37th annual SnowFest! with festivities from parties and parades to fireworks and much more from March 1 to 11. | tahoesnowfest.org Courtesy Dick Morton, SnowFest!

ALPENGLOW MOUNTAIN FESTIVAL Alpenglow Sports Mountain Festival Winter continues through Feb. 25 featuring a celebration of human-powered mountain sports, events, clinics, equipment demos, presentations, films and more. The final days of the festivals features back-country skiing, avalanche beacon practice, back-country skills clinics, winter astronomy, yoga, the Nachtspektakel, a European-inspired uphill ski touring event, on Feb. 23 and much more.

The Mountain Festival also features the final installment of the Winter Film Series on Feb. 22 at 7 p.m. at Olympic Valley Lodge with Barry Blanchard and his film “The Mountain, An Arrow Pointing Up.” The Tahoe Weekly is a sponsor of the film series.

Blanchard, one of Canada’s foremost alpinists, will tell why he’s dedicated his adult life to finding the most epic first ascents across the globe. Showing images from alpine adventures in the Canadian Rockies, European Alps, Pakistani Karakorum and Greater Himalaya, Everest and K2, Blanchard will illustrate the ways in which mountains engage and inspire, and demonstrate how climbing soothes the soul. Blanchard will also touch on his career as a mountain guide and his involvement in making the Hollywood movies “K2,” “Cliffhanger” and “Vertical Limit.” Doors open at 6:15 p.m.

Details on daily events for the Mountain Festival are listed in the Events calendar.

Registration for most events requires a deposit to reserve a spot that is refunded upon participation. | alpenglowsports.com

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Just heavenly South Lake Tahoe

Wine Wednesdays at The Loft in Heavenly is from 4 to 7. Free wine tasting from different featured winery each week. Enjoy free guest speaker and/or tasting notes from the featured winery. | (530) 523-8024

EVERY THURSDAY

Discuss what’s happening Incline Village, Nev. The Conversation Café is a drop-in conversation forum hosted by the Senior Programs staff at Aspen Grove Community Center from 10 to 11:15 a.m. every week except holidays. Participate with people sharing diverse views and a passion for engaging with others over topics and news. $2 donation includes continental breakfast. | (775) 832-1310

Season-long lessons Tahoe City

Tahoe Cross Country Ski Area offers introductory cross-country lessons on Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. Free with a trail pass or season pass. | tahoexc.org

Ladies Day Clinics Mount Rose

Ladies Day Clinics run Thursdays to March 15. Meet for coffee in Timbers for at 10 a.m.

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These clinics offer a fun and social atmosphere where female skiers and riders of low-intermediate to advanced abilities gain confidence and improve technique. $25, free with pass. | skirose.com

Story Time Tahoe City

Tahoe City Library hosts Pre-Schooler Story Time for ages 5 and younger every Thursday from 10:30 to 11 a.m. | (530) 583-3382

Toddler Story Time Incline Village, Nev.

Incline Village Library hosts story time every Thursday from 11:15 to 11:45 a.m. with stories, puppets, music and movement for ages 18 months to 3 years. | (775) 832-4130

Preschool story time Truckee

Truckee Library hosts Story Time every Thursday at 11:30 a.m. for ages 3 years and older. A half-hour stay-and-play after the reading. | (530) 582-7846

Fresh from the farm Alpine Meadows

Tahoe Food Hub’s Farm Shop is open for winter every Thursday and Friday from noon to 6 p.m. It features food from more than 40 farms and carries produce in season. | tahoefoodhub.org

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SUNDAY, MARCH 4 (Tahoe City) 3 p.m.

Fat Cat’s 2nd annual Hot Wing Eating Contest 4 p.m.

Sunnyside’s Annual Luau

MONDAY, MARCH 5 5 p.m. | Tahoe City Za’s 4th annual Clam Bake

TUESDAY, MARCH 6 7 p.m. | Tahoe City Pete ‘n’ Peters Bar Olympics

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7 11 a.m.-7 p.m. | Truckee River Winery Wine ‘n’ Ice ice carving competition

THURSDAY, MARCH 8 (Tahoe City) 4 p.m.

Willard’s Après Ski 5:30 -7 p.m. | North Lake Tahoe Visitor Center Meet the Rescue Dogs of Squaw Valley

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THURSDAY, MARCH 1 5 p.m. | Gar Woods, Carnelian Bay Kickoff Party & Queen Coronation

FRIDAY, MARCH 2 (Tahoe City)

9 p.m.

Rosie’s Bingo Night

FRIDAY, MARCH 9 5 p.m. | Tahoe City Bridgetender’s 10th annual Ribfest 7 p.m. | Alibi Ale Works Truckee Winter White Out Party

SATURDAY, MARCH 10 (Kings Beach) 8:30 a.m. | North Tahoe Event Center Dress Up Your Dog 8:30 a.m. | North Tahoe Event Center Pancake Breakfast 11:30 a.m. | (Secline to Coon streets) Kings Beach Parade

6:30 p.m. | Blue Agave Blake-Apalooza tribute to Black Beeman & fireworks viewing

3 p.m. | Downtown Kings Beach Get S’more Saturday

7:30 p.m.

Fireworks off Commons Beach

12 p.m. | River Ranch, Alpine Meadows Snow Sculpture Contest

SATURDAY, MARCH 3 (Tahoe City) 7-11 a.m. | Tahoe City fire station Pancake Breakfast

SUNDAY, MARCH 11

1 p.m. | Tahoe Donner Downhill I-Did-A-Run race (dogs pulling covered wagons)

11:30 a.m. | (Safeway to Save Mart) Tahoe City parade

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12:30 p.m. | North Tahoe Arts Center Paint the Snowman

Sean McAlindin’s winter swimming adventure

12:30 p.m.

Pete ‘n’ Peters Post Parade Party 12:30-3 p.m. | Boatworks Mall Tahoe Community Nursery School Winter Party & Fundraiser 1 p.m. | Tahoe City Winter Sports Park Snowball Drop Fundraiser & Snowfall Fight 2:30 p.m. | Carnelian Bay Gar Woods’ 30th Annual Polar Bear Swim

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SNOWFEST MUSTS • Wear your Mardi Gras beads (and grab more at the parades) • Attend both parades as they are equally fun, yet different • Go early for the pancake breakfasts (and support local fire departments) • Challenge yourself to attend every event • Cheer on the brave souls at the Polar Bear Plunge • Get sooted by the Snow Festival Miner krewe at the Tahoe City Parade

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SKIING FROM THE TOP OF THE WORLD STORY BY SEAN MCALINDIN

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ome the last week of January we had finally received a proper snowstorm that came in two waves. Thursday night the flakes swirled thickly, coating the mountain with 2 feet of fluffy, yet substantial powder. A perfect bluebird day was followed by another blast, this time lighter and colder, adding another foot on top. It’s now Friday morning and I’m on my way to Squaw Valley to ski the Palisades.

When I arrive around 9:30 a.m. after dropping my daughter off at day care, most of the initial powder has already been carved. I warm up with three laps on Red Dog and Far East where I find some untouched powder still hidden along the edges of the trees and plenty of soft moguls to blast. My blood now flowing, I board a crowded Funitel gondola bound for the upper mountain.

The energy of the passengers is palpable as each person daydreams of which classic line he or she will ski next.

To my luck and delight, it looks like they’ve only just opened Palisades for the day. I slide over to the ski patrol shack where the signs read, “Reverse Traverse Open” and “Palisades Open, Variable Snow Conditions/Expert Skiers and Snowboarders Only.”

I shed my skis and join the line of riders hiking the snowy footpath up the ridge through a small notch onto the summit plateau. The wind whips sharply at my cheeks as I make my way up the

SKIRTING THE STEEP SPINE O F N AT I O N A L C H U T E , I C A R V E M Y WAY I N T O T H E C H A N N E L T O FIND DEEP PILLOWS OF THICK P O W D E R AWA I T I N G B E L O W

TOP: Skiers make the short hike to the top of the Palisades on a powder day. | Trevor Clark, Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows RIGHT: Skier Ben Paciotti drops into National Chute to celebrate the 4th of July. | Ben Arnst, Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows.

From Gold Coast Lodge, it’s a quick ski down to Siberia Express and I’m on my way to eternity.

Rising over a rolling hill, the Palisades materialize before our six-pack chair, bold and snow-covered in the hazy morning sun. Cold clouds of vaporous mist pass quickly overhead. I see a tiny human standing atop Main Chute looking out over the world below. A steady trail of people marches like ants up the north shoulder of Squaw Peak.

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The rest of the ridge is in similar condition with Chimney, Main, Box, Tube and Extra Chutes all closed for good reason. I remember last spring when there was enough snow to ski easily into Main Chute without making a required drop.

I shuffle along the cliff line to National Chute at the far end of the mesa. Looking out from the edge, the earth appears in miniature below me from the San Fernando Valley to Lake Tahoe

frozen staircase step by step and onto the elephant’s back of Squaw Peak. The air is thin, 8,900 feet at the crest and a hike up here always gets the heart pumping.

The top of Palisades is remarkably flat and dotted with radio towers and weather stations.

I click back into my skis and make my way carefully toward the edge of Main Chute. At this point in the season there is a 20-foot overhanging cornice above what appears to be a cascade of blue ice dusted by windswept patches of misplaced snow.

and Desolation Wilderness whose Crystal Range shines brightly in the distance. One of the most exciting aspects of dropping into Palisades is the feeling that you are about to ski down from the top of the world.

Skirting the steep spine of National Chute, I carve my way into the channel to find deep pillows of thick powder awaiting below. My turns grow ever wider, faster, smoother as I descend into the still untouched patches of Siberia Bowl. My adrenaline carries me sailing back into the lift line ready for more.

By my second ascent of the ridge, the majority of the crowds have already dispersed having likely just reached the base of the mountain after sacrificing the powder of Upper Sun Bowl to the snow gods. At this point, I’ll be taking what’s left.

I glide across the table top to the west end and spot an untouched line just along the skier’s right area boundary. It’s knee deep and responsive and I fly down, spraying snow with abandon into the wide-open valley before coasting along the linkage trail to the top of Cornice Bowl.

With the energy of my momentum behind me, I drop into the upper snowfields above Hourglass Chute until the route tightens and I weave my way into its concave bottom and onto Mountain Run below. My legs scream with the pleasure and pain, the Palisades now far behind me as I glide into ground level once again. 

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EVERY SATURDAY

Help with computers Kings Beach

Season-long lessons Tahoe City

Kings Beach Library offers ongoing computer help from 3 to 4 p.m. First Thursdays of the month are “Exploring the Interweb,” second Thursdays are “Computers Questions with Carl LeBlanc,” third Thursdays are “Everything iPhone” and fourth Thursdays are differing themes about technology. | (530) 546-2021

EVERY FRIDAY

Silver Ski Clinics Mount Rose

The Silver Ski Clinics, for ages 50 and older, are every Friday throughout the season at Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe. Meet in Timbers in the Main Lodge at 9 a.m. for a tech talk and coffee. The group clinic is from 9:30 until 11:30 a.m. | skirose.com

Fridays are fun Truckee

Family Fun Fridays at KidZone Museum starts at 11 a.m. Play-based class designed to inspire exploration and discovery through art.

For ages 5 and younger. Free with admission. | kidzonemuseum.org

Fresh from the farm Alpine Meadows

Tahoe Food Hub’s Farm Shop is open for winter every Thursday and Friday from noon to 6 p.m. It features food from more than 40 farms and carries produce in season. | tahoefoodhub.org

Ski with a Ranger South Lake Tahoe

U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit hosts Ski with a Ranger at Heavenly Mountain Resort every Monday at 1 p.m. until April 6. Tours begin at Tamarack Lodge at the top of the Heavenly Gondola.

Lasts 1 hour. First come, first served, limited to 12. | (530) 543-2730

S’more, please Tahoe Vista

North Tahoe Regional Park is the place to grab free s’mores between 2 and 4 p.m. in the Ramada. | (530) 546-4212

Happy hour tastings Olympic Valley

Friday Night Tasting Notes is at Plaza Bar every Friday until April 20 from 3:30 to 5 p.m.

Craft beers or specialty spirits, a different one featured each Friday along with live acoustic music. | squawalpine.com

Watching as a family Tahoe Donner

Enjoy a free family movie every Friday at Northwoods Clubhouse at 6:30 p.m. with G and PG movies. Until March. | (530) 582-9669

Tahoe Cross Country Ski Area offers free introductory skate skiing lessons on Saturdays at 9:15 a.m. free with a trail pass or season pass. | tahoexc.org

Fire-pit family movies South Lake Tahoe

Lake Tahoe AleWorX, FNCTN and Sierraat-Tahoe bring family-friendly movies every Saturday from 5 to 10 p.m. at Lake Tahoe AleWorX. Enjoy self-pour brews and ovenfired pizzas while huddled around fire pits with your friends and family. Until April 30. | sierraattahoe.com

Winter Fireworks Olympic Valley

Squaw Valley puts on a fireworks show every Saturday through March 31 at 7 p.m. with free live music before the show and free hot cocoa during the show at Plaza Bar.

EVERY SUNDAY

Season-long lessons Tahoe City

Tahoe Cross Country Ski Area offers free introductory skate skiing lessons on Sundays at 9:15 a.m. free with a trail pass or season pass. | tahoexc.org

Build together Truckee

Truckee Library hosts Lego Club from 12 to 1 p.m. | (530) 582-7842

FEB. 22 | THURSDAY Winter is for everyone Area venues

Alpenglow Sports Winter Mountain Festival offers an intermediate and beginner back-country ski tours, yoga, avalanche beacon practice and film series. | alpenglowsports.com

Back by popular demand Incline Village, Nev. Diamond Peak Ski Resort hosts Retro Ski Film + Speaker Series at The Chateau at 5 p.m. A brief presentation by Richard Antell on “Weather History of Lake Tahoe,” followed by screening of Warren Miller’s “In Search of Skiing.” No-host bar and popcorn. Free. | diamondpeak.com

Mix it up Truckee

Truckee Chamber of Commerce is hosting a mixer at Tahoe Oil & Spice from 5 to 7 p.m. | truckee.com

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Sugar Bowl’s Silver Belt Series continues with the Banked Slalom on Feb. 24 and the final, Quad Crusher, on April 7. In support of the High Fives Foundation, the Banked Slalom will combine speed and style as participants weave their way down the slopes.

The Quad Crusher is an endurance race across Sugar Bowl’s four peaks: Mount Judah, Mount Lincoln, Mount Disney and Crow’s Nest Peak. Two divisions and distinct courses will make this event fun for both seasoned athletes and citizen uphillers. The event will conclude with an awards celebration, food, drinks and raffle with proceeds benefiting the Sierra Avalanche Center.

Registration for each event is available online in advance and will take place on-site at the resort the day of the event. All events will take place weather and conditions permitting. A lift ticket or season pass is required for all participants. | sugarbowl.com/silverbelt

Back-country avalanche ed Tahoe Donner North American Ski Training Center is providing back-country guiding and avalanche education at Tahoe Donner Adventure Center on Feb. 23 and March 3. Get out and explore the back-country skiing with professional instructors and guides. A trail pass is required for any offpiste skiing or boarding within the crosscountry ski area boundary. Space is limited.

Reservations are suggested. Beginners are welcome. | (530) 386-2102

Wax dem skis, boards Soda Springs Boreal Mountain Resort hosts The Airblaster Board Games on Feb. 24 at 9 a.m. with the Subaru WinterFest at Boreal Ski Resort on Feb. 24 and 25.

Demo the latest equipment from Nordica and LibTech, grab great giveaways and hot chocolate, support Adaptive Sports Chapter, participate in the Subaru scavenger hunt or take a group photo in the giant Subaru Adirondack chair. The Subaru/Leave No Trace Traveling Trainers will educate the winter sports community about to enjoy the snow ethically and responsibly. | rideboreal.com

Motorized avalanche training Sierra Avalanche Center offers a 24hour course that provides an introduction to avalanche risk management for motorized users. Learning will occur through a mix of classroom and field practice, with an emphasis on field practice whenever possible.

This course follows the guidelines for Recreational Level I Avalanche Training as established by the American Avalanche 14

Association. Classes will be offered from Feb. 23 to 25 in South Lake Tahoe, and March 2 to 4 in Incline Village, Nev. | sierraavalanchecenter.org

Shreddit Showdown accepting films Truckee Granite Chief ’s fifth annual Shreddit Showdown Ski Movie Contest is accepting 3-minute ski movies until Feb. 25. Film categories include Adult, Teen Grom and Filmmaker. Award categories include Grand, Second, Third, People’s Choice and Silver Bullet. Prizes range from skis and boots to an avalanche airbag. The Shreddie Awards will be on March 8 at Tahoe City Art Haus & Cinema. | granitechief.com

Train with the best Royal Gorge Cross Country in Soda Springs offers ski clinics for various ski levels with expert skiers. Olympian Katerina Nash will lead an intermediate Skate Clinic on Feb. 24. An Intermediate Skate Clinic will be led by Franz Bernstein and Caitlin on March 3. Call in advance to check on snow conditions. | royalgorge.com

Snow or no snow South Lake Tahoe Fresh Tracks 5K Snowshoe Race is on Feb. 25 at Camp Richardson starts at 10 a.m. The event, which benefits metastatic breast cancer prevention and Girls on The Run-Sierras, will be a trail walk/run in the case of no snow. Age categories run from age 12 to age 70 and older. | ultrasignup.com

Tahoe City Alpenglow Freestyle Race starts at Tahoe Cross Country Ski Area on Feb. 25. The race waves, starting at 10 a.m., are 20km, 10 km and 5 km. Sponsored

by Alpenglow Sports, the races are a fundraiser for Tahoe XC Junior Development Ski Team. The $25 suggested donation includes a light lunch. Park at the North Tahoe High School and ski over to the start. | farwestnordic.org

Roses are rad Reno, Nev. Mount Rose Ski is accepting submissions for the inaugural Roses are RAD Winter Film Festival. Skiers, boarders and amateur cinematographers with amazing footage, 2 to 3 minutes in length, can enter through March 1. Ten films will be selected for the screening at the festival at Cargo Concert Hall in Reno, Nev., on March 9. Details,requirements and submission instructions are online. | skirose.com

Happy hump day Norden Sugar Bowl Resort introduces a new series designed to build community, expose newcomers to uphill ski travel and the resort’s accessible routes. The days are scheduled on Wednesdays, or hump day, once per month: Feb. 28, March 21 and April 4. Weather and conditions permitting, the Hump Day Hump will take place from 4 to 5:30 p.m., with registration starting at 3 p.m. the day of.

The cost to participate is $10 per person and includes uphill access and a draft beer at the end for those ages 21 and older. A small raffle will also take place with prizes provided by event sponsors | sugarbowl.com

time bonuses for freestyle tricks. This event will bring together the North and South Lake divisions of the USASA after the main competition series for a laid back, spring party. | skihomewood.com

Fine-tuning for spring Webber Lake Campground reservations will go online on March 1. Truckee Donner Land Trust will also publish its summer 2018 docent-led hiking schedule for Carpenter Valley and other Land Trust trails by April 1. They are still fine-tuning projections for an opening day. | tdlandtrust.org

Boots required Carson City, Nev. March Mudness on March 3 will be in Washoe State Park east of East Lake Road. The 5km and 10km courses are a combo of jeep road and single-track trail with some technical sections and steep hills. Both courses offer spectacular views of Carson City and Washoe Valley. Course distances and routes are subject to change due to trail and weather conditions. It starts at 9:30 a.m. | ultrasignup.com

An annual favorite Tahoe City The 40th annual Great Ski Race from Tahoe City to Truckee is slated for March 4, weather conditions permitting. The Great Ski Race is the main fund-raising event for the Tahoe Nordic Search & Rescue Team, a nonprofit, all-volunteer organization. Team members, along with community supporters, organize The Great Ski Race, which continues to be one of the largest Nordic ski races west of the Mississippi. Race proceeds are used primarily to purchase equipment and to support winter survival and avalanche education programs. | thegreatskirace.com

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Improve your skiing self

Donner Summit Boreal introduces a new event on March 3 – the Butter Ball. This once-in-a-lifetime session showcases some of the most stylish riders to ever strap on a board. All event entry fees go to the Revert Foundation.

On March 10 is the fourth annual Banked Slalom, which includes live entertainment and an après ski party; it benefits High Fives Foundation.

Tom Sims Retro World Championships are from March 23 to 25. It will be held at Soda Springs. Enjoy three days of crazy fun and rubbing elbows with legends and heroes of snowboarding’s history from The Great Race and The Beach Party HandShaped Old-School Pipe Session.

It’s Tits is on April 7 at 1 p.m. | rideboreal.com

NASTC’s All Terrain/All Conditions is a full-immersion course designed to get skiers off an intermediate or advanced plateau from March 5 to 7. Experienced and nationally ranked coaches will show how to make the changes needed to meet skiing goals. Through a successful methodology including breaking down skiing to its fundamentals, reviewing the building blocks of high-level skiing, video, equipment discussions, fitness recommendations, practical technique/ tactics and lots of mileage, top trainers will guide skiers through a step-by-step progression toward total skiing mastery.

Skiers must be level 6 to 9. | skinastc.com or (530) 386-2102

Quail Freeride, Banked Slalom Homewood Homewood Mountain Resort hosts the Quail Freeride Competition on March 3, the first of its kind freeride/freeski event on the West Shore. Groms are invited to compete, as well, with a special award for the best overall Junior for Men and Women. Held on the classic Quail Face, expect sweeping turns, fast lines and plenty of side hits to make each line unique.

USASA Freestyle Banked Slalom with a twist is on March 10. Athletes will race to the finish through a unique course with

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Benefit dinner Truckee

Mountain Area Preservation offers a benefit dinner at Stella Restaurant from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. The fundraiser includes a four-course dinner with passed canapes and wine pairings. A vegetarian option is available. $200/person. | RSVP (530) 582-6751

Impact of small changes South Lake Tahoe

“One Degree of Change,” a community conversation about elevating the Tahoe area is presented by El Dorado Community Foundation at 6:30 p.m. at Lake Tahoe Community College.

Speakers include the foundation’s Bill Roby, Chris McNamara and Darcie Goodman Collins.

Free; registration required. | eventbrite.com

Free film series Olympic Valley

The 12th annual Alpenglow Winter Film Series continues with “The Mountain, An Arrow Pointing Up” featuring alpinist Barry Blanchard. At Olympic Valley Lodge. Doors open at 7 p.m. Free. | alpenglowsports.com

FEB. 23 | FRIDAY Winter is for everyone Area venues

talk, winter wildlife survival snowshoe tour, Nordic wax clinic and music by Poor Man’s Whiskey. | alpenglowsports.com

Maintain his statue South Lake Tahoe

The 18th annual Snowshoe Thompson Ski & Snowshoe Celebration is from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Lake Tahoe Golf Course. Guided historical tour, presenters, musical entertainment, exhibits. Lunch, no-host bar. Donation $20, free 11 and younger.

Benefit Friends of Snowshoe Thompson and his statue in Genoa, Nev. | RSVP (530) 573-8940

Demo day Soda Springs

Vendor Demo at Village Station at Royal Gorge and Sugar Bowl at 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Featuring Fischer, Salomon, Rossignol and Paco’s.

Demo the latest gear for free with a daily trail pass or season pass. | royalgorge.com

Sarah Hockensmith of Tahoe Institute for Natural Science offers snowshoe hike in Tahoe Meadows as part of Alpenglow Sports Winter Mountain Festival. From 9:30 a.m. to noon. Some mild hills; no dogs. Limited to 15. | RSVP tinsweb.org

It’s only natural South Lake Tahoe

Kid’s Nature Journal Club is on the second and fourth Saturday each month from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at South Lake Tahoe Library. Learn skills for exploring the natural world and how to capture adventures in a nature journal. Some materials provided; bring a notebook and pen and dress for the weather. | (530) 573-3185

Meet your (veggie) maker Alpine Meadows

From book to vision Truckee

Winemaker’s events Truckee

Enjoy a winemaker’s tasting event featuring Quivira wines from 5 to 7 p.m. at Uncorked Truckee. | (530) 550-5200

S’mores stars, please Northstar

Tahoe Star Tours offers Stars & S’mores at The Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe. Meet at Fireside Terrace for an astronomy talk, poetry reading and telescopic view with Celestrons, followed by s’mores around outdoor fire pit. 7 to 8:30 p.m. $45 per person. | RSVP tahoestartours.com

Winter is for everyone Mount Rose

Michelle Witte of Tahoe Institute for Natural Science offers an astronomy walk in Mt. Rose Meadows as part of Alpenglow Sports Winter Mountain Festival. From 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wear warm clothes and headlamp. | RSVP tinsweb.org

FEB. 24 | SATURDAY Throwback Day Twin Bridges

Pull out the retro duds for Sierra-at-Tahoe’s Throwback Day from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. with a contest for best retro and vintage attire, a Hot Doggin’ Eating Challenge, Spread Eagle Tournament, games, live music with DJ Conqu3st and more. | sierrattahoe.com

Winter is for everyone Area venues

Alpenglow Sports Winter Mountain Festival offers an intermediate back-country ski tour, yoga, skyline traverse, intermediate backcountry splitboard tour, Squaw Valley Resort accessed back-country tour, women’s beginner back-country ski tour, back-country ski essentials talk, splitboard back-country essentials

The Incline Village Visitors Center is your North Lake Tahoe concierge offering: Discounted single-day ski tickets | Art gallery | Locally curated gift shop Winter hours: Monday–Friday 8:30am–5pm | Weekends & Holidays 10am–4pm

Winter is for everyone Mount Rose

Alpenglow Sports Winter Mountain Festival offers beginner and intermediate back-country ski tours, yoga, women’s beginner back-country ski tour, beginner back-country splitboard tour, backcountry essentials talk, back-country Nachtspektakel and winter astronomy. | alpenglowsports.com

Tahoe Food Hub Farm Shop offers Meet Your Maker series from 2 to 6 p.m. Meet the people who grow, raise and make our food, plus shop specials, local music and/or cooking classes, workshops or food films. Today features Small Batch Sauce Co. and Liberty Food & Wine Exchange. | tahoefoodhub.org

The Ultimate Destination

Create a vision board to follow the book “Things I Never Told You” from 1 to 2:30 p.m. at the Truckee Library. This program will create vision boards that focus on the main characters of the book and the mental health issues faced. The finished works will be on display at the library until May 1. | (530) 582-7846

Play to get s’mores Kings Beach

Discover Lake Tahoe’s breathtaking landscape, rich history and unique culture when you book one of the following activities through ActivityTickets.com ~ Alpenglow Expeditions in Squaw Valley Learn backcountry skiing and riding from the experts.

Borges Sleigh and Carriage Rides at Sand Harbor Glide along the shores with breathtaking Tahoe views.

Tahoe Adventure Company Experience a full moon kayak or forest snowshoe.

Carson City Symphony Discover classical music in the Sierra.

ActivityTickets.com | (800) Go-Tahoe Incline Village Visitors Center 969 Tahoe Blvd., Incline Village, NV

CELEBRATING 37 YEARS Consistently Covering the Tahoe Sierra

Visit 12 participating Kings Beach restaurants and retailers from 3 to 6 p.m., and track three or more visits to redeem a play card for a free s’more kit at Las Panchitas outdoor patio. The more businesses visited and tracked, the more chances to win raffle prizes valued at $3,000. | northtahoebusiness.org

Winemaker’s events Truckee

Enjoy a winemaker’s tasting event featuring Quivira wines from 5 to 7 p.m. at Uncorked Tahoe City. | (530) 581-1106

A night for sailors Tahoe City

Tahoe Yacht Club and the Tahoe Public Utility District invite friends of sailing to Regatta Night at 6 p.m. Festivities include presentations of several junior sailing programs, hotdogs and other refreshments, a screening of “Morning Light,” a documentary of the TRANSPAC, Newport-to-Honolulu race. $20 adult; $10 ages 11 and younger. Benefits junior sailing on the lake. | RSVP (530) 581-4178 or gm@tahoeyc.com

Snowshoe to dinner Alpine Meadows

Enjoy a snowshoe tour to the mid-mountain Chalet at Alpine Meadows followed by a seated dinner featuring Alps-inspired menu. | RSVP (800) 403-0206

By the light of the moon Kirkwood

Kirkwood Mountain Resort offers a full moon snowshoe trek from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Cross Country Snowshoe Center. All levels. $35, $5 snowshoe rental. | RSVP (209) 258-7248

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BY MARK McLAUGHLIN

Gra nlibakken | B i r t h p l a c e o f Ta h o e S k i i n g

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ranlibakken Tahoe Resort celebrated its 95th anniversary in 2017 making it the oldest by far of all Lake Tahoe ski areas. This secluded mountain valley just south of Tahoe City got its commercial start in the early 1920s when snow play and winter sports were becoming more popular with residents and tourists alike.

Until then, Lake Tahoe was primarily a summer vacation spot with few yearround residents. The first opportunity to expand winter sports at the lake appeared in 1928 when new owners purchased the Tahoe Tavern Hotel, a 223-room, European-style resort near Tahoe City. The new management kept the facility open from December to March for the first time.

Winter transportation to the tavern was provided by Southern Pacific Railroad, which maintained a narrow-gauge track from Truckee. The train provided reliable access for winter-sports enthusiasts heading to North Lake Tahoe.

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Initially, the main attractions were ice skating, cross-country skiing and tobogganing near the hotel, but soon a Winter Sports Grounds was developed at a forested slope (current location of Granlibakken Resort) about half a mile west. In 1922, the tavern hosted its first ski jumping event there.

A double toboggan slide was built and then shortly after a 65-meter trajectory jump was constructed. The jump was designed so that at the apex of their leap, skiers could see distant Lake Tahoe over the forest canopy below. Like the Hilltop scaffold jump built at Truckee, this project was designed and construction supervised

by Lars Haugen, a Norwegian-born professional jumper who would eventually win seven U.S. national jumping championships.

As captain of the fledgling U.S. Olympic ski team in 1924, Lars Haugen’s younger brother, Anders, made some of the longest jumps at the first Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France, but due to a scoring error he was ranked fourth and did not receive a medal. The mistake was discovered 50 years later, however, and Anders was finally awarded the bronze for his performance, becoming the first and only Ameri16

Ski jumpers at Olympic Hill.

can to medal in Olympic ski jumping.

Before long the winter sports program at Olympic Hill included cross-country ski racing, as well as ski jumping exhibitions. To entertain guests, Tahoe Tavern management hired the Haugens and other nationally ranked ski jumpers, Sig Ulland and brothers Alf and Sverre Engen, to perform daring leaps. Alf and Sverre had a signature move where they hit the jump simultaneously, clasped hands in mid-flight and then broke away for the landing. These professional exhibitions drew hundreds of spectators to Tahoe Tavern and Granlibakken.

During the winter of 1928-29, the Haugen brothers, along with local Tahoe City skiers Jack Starrett, Carl Bechdolt, Joe Henry and others, formed the Lake Tahoe Ski Club to organize more activities and competitive events. It was the beginning of a club that would leave an indelible mark on the sport and produce more national ski champions and Olympians than any other program in America.

The town of Truckee is justifiably proud of organizing its first winter carnival in 1895, an event that would transform the Tahoe Sierra into a winter-sports powerhouse, but it was Tahoe City residents that nearly landed the first Winter Olympics held in the United States. Los Angeles had secured the 1932 Summer Games, but competition for the 1932 Winter Games grew into a fierce contest between Yosem-

held west of the Rockies, but portions of it were so poorly marked that racers found themselves lost in the woods. Several skiers didn’t make it back until just before dark and one contestant went so far off trail that he was returned to Tahoe City by boat.

ite National Park, Tahoe City and Lake Placid in New York. Optimistically, Tahoe locals started calling their winter sports facility “Olympic Hill.” Ultimately, Lake Placid was picked because of its established history of hosting winter-sports events and its location in upstate New York’s reliable snow belt. At the time, few Americans knew that it snowed in California.

Tahoe City’s bid failed, but it was rewarded with the 1932 National Ski Association Championship Tournament, with events in jumping and cross-country skiing. In the weeks before the 1932 event, nearly 23 feet of fresh snow buried Tahoe City. Skiers and officials arriving from the just-finished Winter Games at Lake Placid could hardly believe their eyes. Conditions had been so dry in New York that jumpers landed on a mixture of dirty snow and straw.

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After the event was over, word spread across the country and in Europe that California may be known for sunny beaches and orange groves, but it also possessed a mountain climate and ski conditions superior to most other winter resorts.

Visiting athletes went home to tell their friends and families that California was the place to go for deep snow.

In 1945, Norwegian-born ski jumper Kjell “Rusty” Rustad secured a land-use permit for the Sports Grounds from the U.S. Forest Service. He cleared the slope of trees and built facilities for day visitors and overnight guests. Later he installed several rope-tow systems to pull skiers up the hill. Rustad named it Granlibakken — Norwegian for “hillside sheltered by fir trees” — because it reminded him of where he had skied as a boy.

As a direct result of the 1932 tournament at Lake Tahoe, the popularity and economics of winter sports throughout the Tahoe Sierra boomed. This successful event established the area as a prime training ground for developing world-class talent. It also propelled the region into its role as one of America’s top-rated ski destinations. We can thank the Lake Tahoe Ski Club and Rusty Rustad for establishing these deep roots. 

Word spread across the country and in Europe that California may be known for sunny beaches and orange groves, but it also possessed a mountain climate and ski conditions superior to most other winter resorts.

The 1932 contests at Tahoe attracted Hollywood celebrities such as movie star Buster Keaton, as well as California Governor James Rolph. More than 100 professional and amateur competitors from around the country traveled to Tahoe City to strut their stuff, but the Lake Tahoe Ski Club had plenty of members who successfully proved their mettle against the world’s best. One newspaper gushed: “The 28th National Ski Tournament goes down as one of the best exhibitions of good sportsmanship, one of the most thrilling meets, one of the most spectacular events ever held in the United States.” It was a colorful affair with some 3,000 spectators.

Other than some spectacular spills sustained by a few jumpers, most of the competitions went off without a hitch. The Dauerlauf cross-country ski race was billed as the first national-level contest of its type

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PROMOTING WINTER SPORTS After California failed to secure the 1932 Winter Olympics, the State Chamber of Commerce switched gears and began to embrace winter sports as a viable, economic commodity. During winter months, the focus of the chamber’s publications switched from sunshine and citrus to snowflakes and sliding.

In contrast to selling beach-themed amenities, the chamber wrote, “California offers her residents and tourists a complete program of winter sports that promises to equal or exceed the winter sports of the most famed European, Canadian and Eastern Resorts.”

Photograph and caption are from Tahoe historian Mark McLaughlin’s award-winning book, “Longboards to Olympics: A Century of Tahoe Winter Sports” available in stores or at thestormking.com.

Courtesy Truckee Donner Historical Society

February 22-March 7, 2018

Snow Trails

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Glowing event Tahoe Donner

Tahoe Donner Downhill hosts a Glowstick Parade and Carnival. Kids age 10 and older who can ski or ride unassisted can enter the parade.

Music, snacks, carnival games before hand. Parade starts at 6:30 p.m. Free. | tahoedonner.com

FEB. 25 | SUNDAY Captain Nordic’s Dress Up Day Tahoe Donner

In loving memory of longtime local and junior ski coach Mark Nadel, skiers are encouraged to dress up for a fun day of skiing in costume at Tahoe Donner Cross Country for Captain Nordic’s Dress Up Day. | tahoedonner.com

Winter is for everyone Area venues

Alpenglow Sports Winter Mountain Festival offers a beginner back-country ski tour, yoga, intermediate back-country ski tour, 20km freestyle race, women’s intermediate back-country ski tour, back-country ski essentials talk, beginner splitboard back-country tour, snowshoe with your dog and natural history snowshoe tour. | alpenglowsports.com

Winter is for everyone Tahoe City

Will Richardson of Tahoe Institute for Natural Science offers snowshoe hike in Page Meadows as part of Alpenglow Sports Winter Mountain Festival. From 9:30 a.m. to noon. Some mild hills; no dogs. Limited to 15. | RSVP tinsweb.org

FEB. 27 | TUESDAY All the cool CATTs Truckee

Contractors Association of Truckee Tahoe is hosting a membership orientation open to all designers, building and specialty contractors, suppliers and professionals. From 4 to 6 p.m. at Truckee Tahoe Airport community room.

Learn about CATT benefits and services. | RSVP memberinfo@ca-tt.com

S.T.E.A.M. Tuesdays Incline Village, Nev.

Incline Village Library offers kids a fun way to explore different ways to learn about technology. From 4 to 5 p.m. A new activity each week. On the first, third and fourth Tuesday of the month. | (775) 832-3140

Golden State in its glory South Lake Tahoe

Artist, poet and naturalist Obi Kaufmann brings his best-selling “California Field Atlas” to the South Lake Tahoe Library at 6 p.m.

He will be presenting the book with a Q&A session to follow. Signed copies for sale.

Free and open to all. | (530) 573-3185

FEB. 28 | WEDNESDAY Membership 101 Truckee

Truckee Chamber of Commerce Membership 101 is from 8 to 9 a.m. at the California Welcome Center every last Wednesday of the month. For new, current or potential members to learn about the benefits of belonging.

Coffee and pastries. | info@truckee.com

DIY crafts Incline Village, Nev.

Kindergartners to fifth graders can make their own crafts to take home. All materials are provided and instructions at the Incline Village Library from 4 to 4:45 p.m. Second and fourth Wednesdays of the month. | (775) 832-4103

Unleash your inner CEO South Lake Tahoe

GeniusETC Entrepreneurs Social presents guest speaker Jake Tuschiniski, executive coach and leadership developer, CEO and founder of Divinitatis Consulting. She motivates entre-

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preneurs to discover their personal best and become industry leaders. At Tahoe Mountain Lab from 6 to 9 p.m. | tahoemountainlab.com

MARCH 1 | THURSDAY SnowFest! Is On Carnelian Bay

North Lake Tahoe’s 37th annual SnowFest today includes a kickoff party and Queen coronation at Gar Woods. Groove Foundry will play.

TCDA’s Selfie Scavenger Hunt starts today and runs until March 11. | tahoesnowfest.org

Mix it up Truckee

Truckee Chamber of Commerce is hosting a mixer at Bella Lago Aesthetics from 5 to 7 p.m.

Bring business cards to network. | truckee.com

Moon over Tahoe Tahoe Vista

Tahoe Adventure Company offers a Full Worm Moon snowshoe trek from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Trips include snowshoes, poles, guides, instruction, natural history and hot drinks and snacks. No experience needed. $65. | tahoeadventurecompany.com

Back by popular demand Incline Village, Nev.

Diamond Peak Ski Resort hosts Retro Ski Film + Speaker Series at The Chateau at 5 p.m. A brief presentation by local historian Mark McLaughlin on “Reign of the Sierra Storm King,” followed by screening of Warren Miller’s “Snowonder.” No-host bar and popcorn. Free. | diamondpeak.com

Entrepreneurs welcome South Lake Tahoe

“Are you growing your dream business?”

The mentor-based Entrepreneurs Program meets the first Thursday of every month from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Aspen Room at Lake Tahoe Community College. Free to all. | Register tahoechamber.com

MARCH 1-11 | THURSDAY-SUNDAY No more winter blahs Tahoe City

North Lake Tahoe’s 37th annual SnowFest.

Guests enjoy a 10-day celebration including parades, fireworks, live music concerts, a polar bear plunge, the Great Ski Race, a broomball tournament, snow sculptures parties, dining and art. | tahoesnowfest.org

MARCH 2 | FRIDAY Guided scenic hike Tahoma

Tahoe Institute for Science and Tahoe Rim Trail Association offer a Sugar Pine Point State Park outing at 10 a.m. Enjoy wildlife and scenery in a 2-mile hike with TINS Sarah Hockensmith and TRTA Jennifer Coon. Bring a bag lunch.

Free with $5 parking fee. | RSVP tinsweb.org

Blood drive South Lake Tahoe

Barton Memorial Hospital Auxiliary is hosting a blood drive at the Recreation & Swim Complex from noon to 5 p.m. Donate blood and receive a T-shirt. Bring photo ID. | (916) 453-3039

Share and write Incline Village, Nev.

Lifescapes, a memoir-writing program for seniors, is from 2 to 4 p.m. at Incline Village Library. First and third Fridays of each month.

All are welcome. | (775) 832-4130

Huskies like hops Truckee

On the first Friday of every month, Tahoe Mountain Brewing Co. Taproom hosts a Hops for Huskies event from 3 to 8 p.m. Tahoe Husky Rescue gets $1 for every beer purchased. | tahoehuskyrescue.org

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SKI TOURING, SNOWSHOEING & SNOWMOBILING Explore more snow trails at TheTahoeWeekly.com. Click on the Winter tab under the Out & About menu. See the Events calendar for guided snowshoe treks.

TRUCKEE

CABIN CREEK TRAIL

TAHOE MEADOWS

Marked route follows old logging roads and Cabin Creek Road for 3 to 6 miles. The terrain has gentle, rolling slopes.

Cabin Creek Road south of Truckee on Highway 89. The unmarked trailhead is 1 mile from the highway. Limited parking is available in a road cut, when plowed.

On Mount Rose high above Lake Tahoe, Tahoe Meadows offers an expansive area where skiers can stretch their legs. Head up Highway 431 from Incline Village until you reach the meadows before the summit. South side designated for skiers and snowshoers, while the north side is designated for snowmobilers. Heavy weekend use.

Easy to moderate

DONNER MEMORIAL STATE PARK Easy | (530) 582-7892 or parks.ca.gov

The park is mostly flat and open year-round. Skiers can enjoy the forests and boulder fields, glide down to the lake and meander through the park. Unmarked, 9.6-km, skier-packed trail starting near the Emigrant Trail Museum.

For the more adventuresome, glide over the hills into Coldstream Canyon. TART

LITTLE TRUCKEE SUMMIT

Easy to advanced | (530) 994-3401 or fs.usda.gov Marked routes with 110 miles of groomed trails follow roads to Webber Lake and Yuba Pass, Rim and Ridge Loops, Bald Ridge Loop and Treasure Mountain, Pass Creek Loop, Independence Lake Loop, Meadow Lake Loop and Jackson Meadow. Trailhead at Jackson Meadow Road, 14 miles north of Truckee on Highway 89. Overnight camping OK in parking area. Heavy use.*

PETER GRUBB HUT & CASTLE PEAK

Moderate to advanced | clairtappaanlodge.com A marked Nordic ski trail begins at the Castle Peak/Boreal interchange on Donner Summit off Interstate 80, west of Truckee. Take the Castle Peak exit and follow it for one-quarter mile to the intersection for the trailhead to the north. Follow unmarked trail to Peter Grubb Hut. Overnight parking available at the Sno-Park*. For overnight stays at the hut, call (530) 426-3632 for reservations.

POLE CREEK TRAIL SYSTEM Easy to strenuous

Unmarked trails follow roads along Pole Creek and Silver Creek Drainages. Trailhead 6 miles south of Truckee on Highway 89. Some parking on west side of highway.

Easy to advanced

WEST SHORE

BLACKWOOD CANYON Easy to advanced

The meadows in Blackwood Canyon offer a great place to get into the wilderness off Highway 89 on the West Shore. Follow Highway 89 south from Tahoe City and park at the Kaspian Recreation Area. Skiers can glide along the road (not plowed) or through the meadows. Snowmobilers should follow the road about 2.5 miles, then take a left across the bridge and continue up Barker Pass Road to large open areas, steep bowls and many roads.

Limited parking.*

MEEKS MEADOWS Easy | fs.usda.gov

Meeks Meadows on the West Shore off Highway 89 offers a vast area to ski. The trailhead is across from the Meeks Bay Fire Station; look for the log cabin with red trim. Follow the U.S. Forest Service road or meander through the meadow and down to Meeks Creek.

SUGAR PINE POINT STATE PARK

Easy to moderate | (530) 525-7982 or parks.ca.gov The Ed Z’berg/Sugar Pine Point State Park is a spectacular spot to cross-country ski or snowshoe among the dense forests of the West Shore or along Lake Tahoe’s shores.

The park offers more than 18 km of marked ski trails. Three groomed trails begin at the campground, 9 miles south of Tahoe City, with two skier-packed trails on the lake side of the park, accessed from the Day Use entrance. Winter camping available. Guided tours and programs. TART

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE

SAGEHEN SUMMIT

HOPE VALLEY

An unmarked route follows the road to the creek bottom.

Lateral roads offer many side trips. Trailhead at Sagehen Summit on the west side of Highway 89, 8 miles north of Truckee. Limited parking.

Sno-park on the south side of Highway 88 at Blue Lakes Road. Much of Hope Valley is open to snowmobiling, but some areas are not; stay in designated areas. Ungroomed routes to Willow Creek (8.5 miles) and Tamarack Lake (1 mile) and groomed routes to Blue Lakes (11.5 miles) and Forestdale (3.5 miles). Stage from Hope Valley Sno-Park.*

Easy to moderate

CISCO GROVE

Easy to moderate

RATTLESNAKE

TAYLOR CREEK

Steep canyon and side slopes at lower end of trail with 7 miles of groomed access. Upper elevations feature ridges and bowls. Route follows Rattlesnake Road to Magonigal Summit. Trailhead at Cisco Grove exit north off Interstate 80.*

Developed for beginners, this well-marked series of trails allows skiers to explore the area. Terrain is mostly flat and is good for the entire family. Take Highway 89 to Cathedral Road and park in the Sno-Park. Marked trails start at the parking lot with three trails near Fallen Leaf Lake. On the lake side of Highway 89, follow the road to access the Tallac Historic Trail.*

Easy to advanced

NORTH SHORE

BROCKWAY SUMMIT & MARTIS PEAK Easy to advanced

Brockway Summit off Highway 267 offers an abundance of areas to ski with turnouts on both sides of the highway where Nordic skiers and snowshoers can follow logging and utility roads. For snowmobilers, the best access and limited parking about one-quarter mile north of Brockway Summit below the top of Highway 267 on the Truckee side.

No groomed trails, but many old lumber roads exist. Take a good map, as it’s easy to become turned around.

PAGE MEADOWS Easy to moderate

Ski or snowshoe along an old road that meanders through a forest and into a cluster of meadows. Take Highway 89 south from Tahoe City, then turn right on Pine Avenue and right on Tahoe Park Heights Road. At the crest of the hill, take the middle fork, which becomes Big Pine Road, then take a left on Silver Tip. The parking area is at the top of the road.

Easy | (530) 573-2600 or fs.usda.gov

LOST SIERRA

YUBA PASS

Easy to advanced | fs.usda.gov The route north from Yuba Pass off Highway 49 is popular for snowmobilers, and shares the trail system with Nordic skiers for the first mile before branching off. For skiers and snowshoers, the route goes north for 2 miles with views of the Sierra Valley, then leads west for 1 mile and rejoins the snowmobile trail. For a short loop, go south (a left) on the snowmobile route back to Yuba Pass.

Alternately, you can continue west through a meadow for 1.5 miles, then head south (a left) onto the Lunch Creek Ski Trail 1.25 miles, then north (a left) on 3 Knobs Trail for 1.5 miles. 3 Knobs Trail ends back at the snowmobile trail. Snowmobilers can head north from the branch 1 mile in and travel through Gold Lake Highway. Then, head south to Bassett’s or north to Gold Lake. This route offers a variety of terrain and beautiful views of the Sierra Buttes and the Lakes Basin. More than 100 miles of trails. Take Highway 89 north of Truckee, and then take Highway 49 to Yuba Pass. Trailhead parking is 6 miles east of Bassett’s Station.*

* SNO-PARK PERMIT REQUIRED; (916) 324-1222 OR OHV.PARKS.CA.GOV/SNOPARKS.

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Poetry Out Loud Kings Beach

Bring original poems or read a favorite at the Poetry Out Loud at Kings Beach Library from 5 to 6:30 p.m. | Register (530) 546-2021

Winemaker’s events Truckee

Enjoy a winemaker’s tasting event featuring Navarro Vineyards from 5 to 7 p.m. at Uncorked Truckee. | (530) 550-5200

Entrepreneur’s Roundtable Truckee

ICE SKATING

NORTH LAKE TAHOE

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE

INCLINE VILLAGE

Indoor facility open year-round. BlueGo

Snow Play Area on Fairway Blvd., next to the Chateau, on the driving range. Bring equipment.

TAHOE CITY WINTER SPORTS PARK

MOUNT ROSE

Ice skating & rentals. Club House. TART

Near the Mount Rose summit, enjoy sledding in Tahoe Meadows off Highway 431. Bring equipment.

TRUCKEE

NORTH TAHOE REGIONAL PARK

At Truckee River Regional Park. Skate rentals, broomball leagues, ice dancing & hockey lessons. Skate rentals & season passes available. TART

End of National Avenue off Hwy 28. Rentals available. TART

TAHOE CITY WINTER SPORTS PARK

PUBLIC POOLS

Sledding & cross-country trails. Rentals available. Club House. TART

(530) 542-6262 | cityofslt.com

(530) 583-1516 | wintersportspark.com

(530) 582-7720 | tdrpd.com

(530) 546-0605 | northtahoeparks.com

INCLINE VILLAGE

(775) 832-1300 | inclinerecreation.com 25-yard, 8-lane indoor pool at Incline Recreation Center, swim lessons, aqua fitness, 1-meter spring diving board, inflatable slide (weekends).

OLYMPIC VALLEY

(800) 403-0206 | squawalpine.com

(530) 583-1516 | wintersportspark.com

OLYMPIC VALLEY

SQUAW VALLEY

(530) 452-4511 | squawalpine.com Tubing & mini snowmobiles. TART

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE

Swimming Lagoon & Spa at High Camp at Squaw Valley, free form lagoon with 50-meter lap lanes, two islands with waterfalls and native boulders. Reopens spring 2018.

TART

ECHO LAKE

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE

On Lake Tahoe Blvd. Bring equipment. BlueGo

(530) 542-6056 | cityofslt.com

(530) 644-2324

SAWMILL POND TAYLOR CREEK

TRUCKEE

Highway 89, north of Camp Richardson Road. Bring equipment.* BlueGo

Indoor pools with competition pool and warm water pool, diving board, swim training, hydraulic lift and lessons. TART

(530) 543-2600

STATELINE

KAHLE PARK

ROCK CLIMBING WALLS

(775) 586-7271 | douglascountynv.gov Off Highway 207. Bring equipment. BlueGo

TRUCKEE

(530) 582-7720 | tdrpd.com

TRUCKEE & BEYOND

Community Recreation Center offers 29’ climbing wall & 12’ bouldering wall. All ages & levels. Lessons available. TART

DONNER SUMMIT

SLEDDING & TUBING

South side of I-80, Castle Peak exit beyond Boreal Inn frontage road. Bring equipment.*

(530) 587-3558

TAHOE DONNER

EAST SHORE

(530) 587-9437 | tahoedonner.com

SPOONER LAKE

At Trout Creek Recreation Center. No personal sleds.

Family events all season.

(775) 831-0494

State park open for general snow play. Bring equipment.

YUBA PASS

(530) 994-3401

HOPE VALLEY AREA

Highway 49 at Yuba Pass. Bring equipment.*

CARSON PASS (209) 295-4251

Highway 88 near Carson Pass. Bring equipment.*

HOPE VALLEY

WEST SHORE

BLACKWOOD CANYON (530) 543-2600

(775) 882-2766

Highway 88 at Blue Lakes Road. Bring equipment.*

Snowplay area off Hwy. 89, 3 miles south of Tahoe City.

Bring equipment.*

MEISS MEADOW

GRANLIBAKKEN

Highway 88 near Carson Pass. Bring equipment.*

Machine-groomed snow play area; no tubes or toboggans allowed. All ages.

(209) 295-4251

Dress in layers Hope Valley

Hope Valley Outdoors offers moonlit tours of Hope Valley from 7 to 9 p.m. Dress to be prepared for cold conditions. | hopevalleycrosscountry.com

SnowFest! Is On Tahoe City

SnowFest today includes the Blake Apalooza at Blue Agave at 6:30 p.m. and fireworks at Commons Beach at 7:30 p.m. | tahoesnowfest.org

MARCH 2-3 | FRIDAY-SATURDAY Meet the author Incline Village, Nev.

Sierra Nevada College Writers in The Woods features poet and essayist Lola Haskins with a reading Friday at 7 p.m. and a workshop Saturday at 10 a.m. Reading is free and open to the public; workshop $50. | Register sierranevada.edu

Highway 50 at Echo Lake Road. Bring equipment.*

25-yard indoor/outdoor year-round pool. Lessons. BlueGo

(530) 582-7720 | tdrpd.com

Tahoe Silicon Mountain hosts roundtable on the first Friday of each month from 5 to 6 p.m. at The Lift. | RSVP Silicon Mountain on Facebook

(530) 581-7533 | granlibakken.com

TAHOE CITY Gentle slope on Highway 89 South, one-eighth mile south of the wye. Bring equipment. TART

Call (530) 546-5995, ext. 100, to be listed in Family Fun. ALL ACTIVITIES ARE WEATHER DEPENDENT. * Sno-park permits required. Go to ohv.parks.ca.gov/snoparks or find locations at (916) 324-1222.

MARCH 3 | SATURDAY SnowFest! Is On Tahoe City

SnowFest features pancake breakfast at 7 a.m., parade through Tahoe City from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; Paint the Snowman, Pete ‘N Peter’s post parade party, Tahoe Community Nursery School winter party at 12:30 p.m.; Snowball Drop fundraiser at Winter Sports Park at 1 p.m.; Polar Bear Swim at 2 p.m. | tahoesnowfest.org

Build him early Tahoe Donner

Tahoe Donner Snowplay will hold a Snowman Building Contest. Also enjoy tubing under the lights until 7 p.m. | tahoedonner.com

Writers unite South Lake Tahoe

Young Adult Writers’ Meetup, on the first and third Saturday of each month, is from 3 to 4 p.m. at South Lake Tahoe Library. | (530) 573-3185

Fading light trek Kirkwood

Kirkwood Mountain Resort offers a sunset snowshoe trek at 4:30 p.m. at the Cross Country Snowshoe Center. All levels. $35, $5 snowshoe rental. | RSVP (209) 258-7248

Sugar Pine State Park. $30, $20 ages 12 and younger. | RSVP (530) 583-9911

MARCH 4 | SUNDAY SnowFest! Is On Tahoe City

SnowFest today includes the second annual Fat Cat Hot Wing Eating Contest at 3 p.m. at Fat Cat Bar & Grill. Sunnyside’s Luau at 4 p.m. | tahoesnowfest.org

MARCH 5 | MONDAY SnowFest! Is On Tahoe City

SnowFest features Za’s annual Clam Bake is at 5 p.m. | tahoesnowfest.org

MARCH 6 | TUESDAY Morning meeting Tahoe City

Tuesday Morning Breakfast Club on the first Tuesday of every month at Granlibakken. $15 includes breakfast. | gotahoenorth.com

S.T.E.A.M. Tuesdays Incline Village, Nev.

Incline Village Library offers kids a fun way to explore different ways to learn about technology. From 4 to 5 p.m. | (775) 832-3140

Whatever your genre Meyers

Tahoe Writers Works is an open workshop for writers of any genre. Meets every other Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at Bona Fide HQ. | bonafidebooks.com

SnowFest! Is On Tahoe City

SnowFest features Pete ‘N Peter’s Bar Olympics at 7 p.m. | tahoesnowfest.org

MARCH 7 | WEDNESDAY SnowFest! Is On Tahoe City

SnowFest features Truckee River Winery’s 2018 Wine ‘n’ Ice. Ten competitors will sculpt 300-lb. blocks of ice. | tahoesnowfest.org

Tech help for Seniors Incline Village, Nev.

Tech-savvy seniors from Incline High School are available to help senior citizens from 2 to 4 p.m. with computer-related questions. Bring laptops, tablets, phones, e-readers or other devices to learn something new. Offered first and third Wednesdays. | (775) 832-4130

MARCH 8 | THURSDAY Dogs love books Incline Village, Nev.

Incline Village Library offers Paws To Read from 4 to 5 p.m. Children can practice reading to friendly therapy dogs and receive a free book. All ages welcome. Second Thursday of every month. | (775) 832-4130

SnowFest! Is On Tahoe City

Enjoy a winemaker’s tasting event featuring Navarro Vineyards from 5 to 7 p.m. at Uncorked Tahoe City. | (530) 581-1106

SnowFest features après ski hosted by Willard’s Sport Shop at 4 p.m. Snacks, drinks, great deals. Meet the Rescue Dogs of Squaw Valley at 5:30 p.m. at North lake Tahoe Visitor Center. Rosie’s Bingo Night at 9 p.m. | tahoesnowfest.org

Bode Miller talk Olympic Valley

Back by popular demand Incline Village, Nev.

Winemaker’s events Truckee

Squaw Valley Institute presents Bode Miller, an Olympic and World Championship gold medalist, one of the most successful ski racers of all time. 7 p.m. | squawvalleyinstitute.org

West Shore moon tour Tahoma

Sierra State Parks interpreters will lead a full moon snowshoe tour from 7 to 9 p.m. in

Diamond Peak Ski Resort hosts Retro Ski Film + Speaker Series at The Chateau at 5 p.m. A brief presentation by local historian Mark McLaughlin with “History of Lake Tahoe and the Comstock,” followed by screening of Warren Miller’s “White Winter Heat.” No-host bar and popcorn. Free. | diamondpeak.com

BUS & SHUTTLE SCHEDULES

North Lake Tahoe & Truckee: laketahoetransit.com | South Lake Tahoe: bluego.org

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OUT & ABOUT

For the Kids

Spend the day by Lake Tahoe at NORTH LAKE TAHOE’S ONLY ALL-INCLUSIVE WINTER RECREATION FACILITY

GLOWING GOOD TIME Tahoe Donner Downhill hosts a Glowstick Parade and Carnival on Feb. 24 at 4:30 p.m.

Kids age 10 and older who can ski or ride unassisted can enter the parade. Enjoy music, snacks and carnival games before hand. Parade starts at 6:30 p.m. Free. | tahoedonner.com

Kids in the kitchen

A tail to tell

Truckee Donner Recreation and Parks District offers Little Chefs Cooking Class led by Thao Doan is for ages 7 to 12 on Wednesdays. This is an ongoing, monthly class. Cooking for Kids and More Cooking for Kids (an advanced version) for ages 9 to 12 is on Mondays with Tammy Garbarino. The next session is from Feb. 26 to April 2. | tdrpd.org

Mermaid University Swim School is at Truckee Community Swimming Pool with Amanda Oberacker for ages 6 to 12.

Learn to swim like a mermaid on Fridays from 4 to 4:40 p.m. or 4:35 to 5:05 p.m.

Sessions are from March 9 to April 27.

Children must pass a swim test or have a parent present. Tails are available for purchase at the pool. The fee for each session is $72. | tdrpd.org

Sitting on the job Babysitting Training for Teens is at Truckee Community Arts Center for Grades 6 and higher. Instructor Tessa Waldron offers classes from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Wednesdays starting March 7.

The class will stress safety, business basics, creative ideas for entertaining kids and first aid. | tdprd.org

Guppies and seahorses?

Truckee Community Swimming Pool offers an extensive Learn to Swim program for ages 6 months to 5. Lessons meet once a week for two months and the instructor/ student ratio is based on the swim level and number of students. The next sessions are March 5 to April 28 and April 30 to June 20. | tdrpd.org

Little Einsteins Kids can explore hands-on science activities from March 6 to April 3 for first to fifth graders. The after-school program offered by TCPUD is $60 or $50 for residents. | Register (530) 583-3440

Kids cooking classes TCPUD offers a kids’ cooking class for first to fifth graders with simple recipes to introduction children to cooking. Sessions are from March 7 to April 4 and from April 18 to May 9. The cost is $85 or $75 for residents. | Register (530) 583-3440

Celestial-inspired poems Celestron, Tahoe Star Tours and Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discover Museum host Astro Poetry Contest 2018 for students in kindergarten through grade 12. Poets do not need to live in the Lake Tahoe region to enter. There will be first-, secondand third-place prizes. Poems must be 20 lines or less, original, unpublished and have an astronomy theme. Any poetry form is acceptable. Submit poet information and the poem to poems@tahoestartours.com in .pdf or .jpeg formats only. The deadline to submit a poem is April 8. Winners will be contacted on April 16 by e-mail. | tahoestartours.com

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ART EXHIBITS & EVENTS

Joan Arrizabalaga UNR Church Fine Arts | Until Feb. 23

Hans Meyer-Kassel

Tom Carter

Nevada Museum of Art | Feb. 24-Sept. 2

Fab ‘n’ Funky North Tahoe Arts Center | Until Feb. 28

R E F L E C T I O N S O F TA H O E I N G L A S S

Lion Heart Art Show Riverside Studios | Until Feb. 28

Monika Piper Johnson

S T O R Y B Y K AY L A A N D E R S O N

Incline Village Library | Until Feb. 28

Vickie Kingman Copeland Gallery | Until March 1

Jonathan Farber & Susan Kotler Sierra Room Community Center | Until March 1

Bryan Cera SNC Garage Door Gallery | Until March 9

Paul Baker Prindle Nate Clark OXS Gallery | Until March 11 David Mori Benko Art Gallery | Until March 15

“Basin and Range” SNC Tahoe Gallery | Until March 23

Tom Carter at Sandy Beach. | Courtesy Tom Carter

Members’ Show

“Deep Water Rays” | Tom Carter

“Blue Star Galaxy” | Kayla Anderson

Patterned dessert plates | Tom Carter

OXS Gallery | Until March 9

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utdoor enthusiast Tom Carter has always been drawn to the crystal-clear waters of Lake Tahoe. He has spent the last two decades living on the North Shore, recreating in it, which has given him the inspiration to help clean it up.

Spending a lot of time in the water, swimming and paddleboarding off the shores of Carnelian Bay, Carter has seen and removed debris that has sunk to the bottom of the lake including boat dashboards, piping, windows, rubber tires and car engines. During his cleanup efforts, Carter began to think about how to mimic the textures and colors of the lake into different creations, which lead him to glass art classes and experimenting on his own.

Carter soon found a local supplier willing to give him recycled window glass, referred to as float glass. Transforming recycled glass into something else requires a lot of cost and effort because every time it is heated up to 1,500 degrees F and brought back down to a manageable level, it becomes less flexible. To get around this, Carter learned to recognize how the glass reacts.

After two firings, the glass may create devitrification, a reaction where the glass turns a foggy whitish color or it wrinkles instead of creating a smooth lasting shine.

Therefore, Carter has learned how to do a one-firing technique to keep the glass from becoming unworkable.

“Glass is a fun medium,” he says. “I’m inspired by the color, reflections, purity of it. I like to work at it; I fire four to five things a week. I think in anything you are 20

Tahoe Art League | Until March 25

Thomas Honeycutt Mount Hough Ranger District | Until March 30

“Marking the Infinite” Nevada Museum of Art | Until May 31

“Elements: Our Region” Truckee Community Rec Center | March-June

Winter art exhibition Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe | Until April

“What’s in A Name?”

doing creatively there are times when your project takes you on a little journey. You may have a plan for a piece but then it doesn’t turn out quite as you envisioned it.

But I go along for the ride and see where it takes me. I learn from failure and those

“ I wanted to make something that approaches that blue, glassy surface of the lake look. There are mountains all around, but not too many Lake Tahoes. The lake is what makes this place unique.”

–Tom Carter that deviate from the plan end up being my most favorite, unique pieces. It’s a really cool struggle.”

Taking mental notes from one finished piece to the next, Carter makes his own colors, usually in the blue hues of Lake Tahoe. Sometimes he gets so focused on his craft he forgets to go outside; which,

if you knew him, is pretty unusual for him.

He gets caught up in feeling humbled by the process of making something beautiful, he says, a feeling that parallels his time out in nature.

“You haven’t lived unless you’ve been a little beat up, straightened out by nature,” says the man who also spent 45 years as a rock-climbing guide. “Art does that, too.

When you look at nature you see patterns, intricacy — it’s complex. I wanted to make something that approaches that blue, glassy surface of the lake look. There are mountains all around, but not too many Lake Tahoes. The lake is what makes this place unique.”

Carter says his next goal is to use his art to help raise money to restore the clarity of Lake Tahoe: “I would love to have a silent auction to fund more cleanups, hopefully at Waterman’s Landing where [owners] Jay and Anik Wild let me swim all the time.”

“When people see a pristine lake it’s easier for them to connect, to feel something bigger than they are. We have people capable of diving for [trash], but their time is worth money. With all of the athletes, SUP racers, people swimming triathlons — it has changed the way we recreate in the lake. We need to keep the visual part of it up as best we can,” he says. “I want my art to touch someone in a way and if what I do connects people to the water and to the land, then I feel successful. If we can take care of the lake and have people relate to it, if people can see it, then that’s medicine.

It’s a natural way to be refreshed and fulfilled.” | tomcarterglass.com 

Tahoe Maritime Museum | Until April

“Ink & Ivory” Tahoe Maritime Museum | Until April

“ART from WNC” The Brick | Until April 12

Moments of Memory artists Reno-Tahoe International Airport | Until April 18

Rick Parsons CCAI Courthouse Gallery | Until May 23 1 ST & 3 RD WEDNESDAY

Gathering of Artists North Tahoe Arts Center THURSDAYS

Guided art tours Nevada Museum of Art (except 1st Thursday)

Wheel/Hand Building Ceramics Truckee Community Art Center 1 ST FRIDAY

Fiber Art Group SLT Library 2 ND FRIDAY

Senior art classes & tours Nevada Museum of Art SATURDAY & SUNDAY

Guided art tours Nevada Museum of Art 2 ND SATURDAY

Free admission Nevada Museum of Art Kids’ Art Day Nevada Museum of Art Art Walk Reno

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GOLDEN STATE IN ITS GLORY

Artist, poet and naturalist Obi Kaufmann brings his best-selling “California Field Atlas” to the South Lake Tahoe Library on Feb. 27 at 6 p.m. The lavishly illustrated book with hundreds of hand-painted maps and wildlife renderings is based on his decades of walking the back country of California. He will be presenting the book with a Q&A session to follow. There will be signed copies for sale. The event is free and open to all. | (530) 573-3185

“California Condor”

Obi Kaufmann | South Lake Tahoe Library

Making art public

Pop in for a pop-up Tahoe City Basecamp Tahoe City offers a pop-up art show/art shop on March 3 from 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. The wares of more than 10 local artisans, working out of the Truckee Roundhouse Makerspace, will be displayed and for sale after the Tahoe City SnowFest! parade. There will be ceramic pieces, up-cycled knits, wooden animals, baby blankets and more. Complimentary hot cocoa and s’mores will be served. | facebook.com/events

Art at the library Incline Village, Nev. Monika Piper Johnson’s artwork will be on display at Incline Village Library through February. She is an award-winning plein air oil painter living in Incline Village, Nev. She started painting still lifes and moved to landscapes. Her work can also be seen in James Harold Galleries in Tahoe City and Village Interiors and Cobalt Artist Studio in Incline Village. | (775) 832-4130

Roaring good art show Truckee Riverside Studios and High Fives Foundation seventh annual Lion Heart Art Show will be on display until the end of February.

This show feature artists who made masterpieces using 12-inch-by-12-inch panels of wood. Each panel sells for $100. Proceeds will benefit the CR Johnson Healing Center, a program service of the High Fives Foundation that provides resources to athletes in recovery from a sports-related injury. | riversideartstudios.com

Art surplus for less Tahoe City North Tahoe Arts Fab ‘n’ Funky Art Clearance Sale Showing is until Feb. 28.

Featured ARTisan Shop artists are clearing out their inventories to offer a variety of arts and crafts at discounted prices.

Works on sale include original paintings, pastels, watercolors, photography, jewelry and more. The showing will be open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. | northtahoearts.com or (530) 581-2787

Painting at Point Arena Obi Kaufmann | South Lake Tahoe Library

Gathering of Artists Tahoe City Gathering of Artists is every first and third Wednesday of the month at North Tahoe Arts Center. Artists are welcome to drop in and share studio space from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. | northtahoearts.com

Join fiber art group South Lake Tahoe The South Lake Tahoe Library hosts a fiber art group meeting on the first Friday of the month from 2 to 3 p.m. The group is open to those who enjoy knitting, crocheting, embroidery, hand sewing and other fiber arts. Participants will learn new tricks and are encouraged to share projects, ideas and stories. Bring current projects or start a new one. All skill levels are welcome. | (530) 573-3185

Artistic to the core Minden, Nev. Carson Valley Arts Council presents watercolor artist Vickie Kingman at the Copeland Gallery until March 1. Kingman, whose background in the arts is varied, currently teaches watercolor classes in Gardnerville, Nev. She has also been involved in community and children’s theater as an actor and director and she is a singer, recently with Fulton Street Jazz Band. | cvartscouncil.com

No boundaries Carson City, Nev. Capital City Arts Initiative announces “Inside and Outside the Lines” by artists Jonathan Farber and Susan Kotler at Sierra Room Community Center until March 1. Kotler creates works using acrylics or watercolors that allow for spontaneous and

direct expression. She finds inspiration for her art in natural phenomena such as water, rocks, trees, light and concepts from quantum physics and consciousness studies. Farber bases his drawings on a specific mark-making style. He uses patterns of redundant, diminutive marks that are evident on an individual basis and also combine with other marks to form a larger whole or image. | arts-initiative.org

Reflecting permanence Reno, Nev. University of Nevada, Reno art department alumnus Joan Arrizabalaga will mount a solo exhibition, “Reflections,” as part of University Galleries’ exhibition series that investigates the permanent collection. It will be on display until Feb. 23 at UNR’s Sheppard Contemporary, Church Fine Arts. | unr.edu

Join the tour South Lake Tahoe Tahoe Art League’s summer 2018 Artist Studio Tour will be held on July 27 to 29 and Aug. 3 to 5 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., as first reported at TheTahoeWeekly.com. Artists have the option of participating for both weekends or only one of the weekends. All mediums are welcome. Artists new to the tour will need to be juried into the event.

This year, there are two tier options. Many people live out of the area and find it difficult to participate on one of the sub-committees, which is a requirement for participation in the tour. This year, these artists will have an option of paying a slightly higher fee for not participating. Applications will be due March 30. To ask for an application, e-mail ninamajorartist@yahoo.com. | talart.org

Lakewide Tahoe Public Art (TPA) announces an open call for artist proposals for Temporary Environmental Art Installations along the new Tahoe Public Art Trail. One of the most important milestones TPA achieved in 2017 was securing a lake-wide permit from the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency for temporary environmental art installations on both the California and Nevada sides. TPA is seeking artwork that engages audiences in contemplating their civic responsibility as it relates to the natural and cultural heritage of the Lake Tahoe Basin. | tahoepublicart.com

Grants for Nevada arts Nevada arts organizations can begin submitting applications for Nevada Arts Council grants for fiscal year 2019 now.

These annual awards include Arts Learning Project Grants, Partners in Excellence Grants and Project Grants. In addition, individuals can submit nominations for the Nevada Heritage Award. Grant applications and award nominations for NAC grants and awards must be submitted through “GO Smart,” the new online grants system available at nevada.gosmart.org. Applications for Artist Fellowship Grants and the Fellowship Project Grant are available now. | nac.nevadaculture.org or (775) 687-7102

Art of the Basin and Range Incline Village, Nev. “Basin and Range” features 18 Southern Nevada artists who were invited to create as a response to and in honor of a tract of Nevada land covering 700,000 acres, now identified as the Basin and Range National Monument. This area not only includes wildlife and desert landscapes and formations, but also ancient and contemporary artwork: petroglyphs carved an estimated 4,000 years ago and Michael Heizer’s mile-long “City.” The exhibit will be at the Tahoe Gallery until March 23.

“Volte-Face” (about face) by Bryan Cera explores the motif of the human face through a collection of digitally fabricated sculptures and images. Through many forms of mediating the human image, Cera invites viewers to examine both utopian and cynical elements of emergent technologies and the ways they shape human identity. It will be on display until March 9 at Garage Door Gallery. | sierranevada.edu

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2. MOVIES: Who played the lead in the 1980s movie “Moscow on the Hudson”?

3. GEOGRAPHY: What is the official language of Mozambique?

4. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What is a female swan called?

5. TRANSPORTATION: What airport would you be traveling through if the three-letter designation is LGW? 6. TELEVISION: What is the subject matter of the drama called “Big Love”?

7. ANATOMY: A normal set of human teeth has how many incisors?

8. LITERATURE: To whom did Herman Melville dedicate the novel “Moby-Dick”?

9. GOVERNMENT: Which country’s parliament is called the Althing?

10. AD SLOGANS: What company advertised its products as “the best a man can get”?

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Michael O’Connor is an astrologer, counselor and life coach | SunStarAstrology.com

Pisces (Feb 19-Mar 20) The Sun entering your sign this week will activate new initiatives. With the energies of the Solar Eclipse close enough to your sign, you will feel its impact, even if you are born later in March, actually. It will activate you to make connections and will also stimulate the flow of earned rewards and karmic returns. Network!

Aries (Mar 21-Apr 20) When it comes to friends, it is important to be your own best one. This is true for all of us. Then, all your outer best friends will become sparkling clear: those who support you to be your own. Doing so is not selfish, it is authentic. When you do it with love, you operate from your heart center and generosity and sharing naturally flow.

The time is right to meditate on the meaning of true love.

Virgo (Aug 23-Sep 22) The need to balancing your daily realities with your dreams of possibility has been extra important of late. Dreams have a way of pushing through when their timing of destiny has arrived.

As well, if you are experiencing repressions and hungers, they will push their way into consciousness even more strongly. If necessary, they will also push you to dig deeply to excavate the truth of your desires.

Libra (Sep 22-Oct 22) A process of stretching your mind to embrace new possibilities continues. In addition to inspiration, necessity may also be playing a role.

You have come this far and now it is time to push through to a whole new level of success. Yet, you have to be willing to do the work and pay the price.

This includes confronting possible fears. Don’t proudly defend, honestly identify.

Taurus (Apr 20-May 21)

Strange but true

by Samantha Weaver

Those who keep track of such things say that, across the globe, there are more people who have cellphones than have toilets.

Thought for the Day: “A society

that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.”

–Lewis H. Lapham

The surf is up, but it may not be literal waves that you are riding. They could manifest as waves of ambition and determination combined with inspiration and love, for example. Like big blue-green surges under a clear blue chemtrail-less sky, as nature intended it, and as the golden rays penetrate warmth down to your bones. Big times for you!

Scorpio (Oct 22-Nov 21) Laying claim to the full measure of your sense of individuality is extra important to you now. Creative inspirations of possibility have been taunting you to go the extra distance. You, more than most, know that doing so requires even more access to who you are and why you are here.

But, if you don’t know this as fully as you might benefit from doing so, here is your invitation.

Gemini (May 21-Jun 21) Sweet dreams are flowing through your consciousness. Like a blissful reverie, you can linger there all day. Yet, you are also feeling the push to make those dreams so, to manifest them in the material. A healthy dose of creative discipline is at least one cornerstone of this process. The good news is that it will flow naturally as soon as you begin.

Sagittarius (Nov 21-Dec 21) Your mind has been racing with thoughts and ideas. A growing sense of determination to explore new territory is featured. Yet your focus may be at least as much to venture into the deeper reaches of your own mind than even to explore foreign and exotic lands somewhere remote on the planet. At least if you can’t get away literally, you have a fluid backup plan.

Cancer (Jun 21-Jul 22) Visions of possibility have held you captivated for some weeks now, maybe even months.

To this end, you have recently felt the urge to purge and replace the old with the new. Is it possessions or relationships, or thoughts or attitudes or… that you have been recycling. Anyway, that cycle is giving way now to a fuller spectrum of that envisioning process.

Capricorn (Dec 21-Jan 19) Somehow over the past few months, you have likely taken a definite turn. Old commitments no longer have the grip they once did and you find yourself needing to decipher your next best direction. A top priority is to increase your luck and opportunity by reaching out to friends new and old.

Contacts, connections, reconnections; sounds like a social media party.

Leo (Jul 22-Aug 23) Fantasies have their place and, invited or not, they have made their way into the deepest reaches of your mind. This is where your imagination likes to engage and play, as well. This process will not only continue, it will deepen over the coming weeks. It will have an impact on your relationship life as well. All the while, it is good to discern between what is fantasy and what is reality.

Aquarius (Jan 19-Feb 19) Balancing focus with flexibility and replacing fear with faith is an important Current theme.

Acceptance of what it combined with a spirit of adventure will activate your inner reserves of confidence. A core theme has and continues to surround opening your mind to new modes of perception and self-concepts.

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FEB. 22 | THURSDAY TAHOE & TRUCKEE

Feb. 24 | 7:30 p.m.

Harrah’s Lake Tahoe Stateline, Nev.

Jody Sweet Piano Best Pies 4 p.m.

Fish & JG McP’s Pub 8 p.m.

DJ Parties Roger That! The Loft 10:30 p.m.

DJ Pipi Whiskey Dick’s 9 p.m.

Open Mic & Karaoke Open Mic Classic Cue 8 p.m.

Open Mic Alibi Ale Works 9 p.m.

Karaoke Fat Cat Bar 9 p.m.

Karaoke The Grid 9:30 p.m.

Lip Sync w/Dreu Murin MontBleu 10 p.m.

Theater, Comedy & Dance “Magic Fusion” The Loft 7 & 9 p.m.

Vince Morris w/Dax Jordan The Improv 9 p.m.

RENO & BEYOND

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W

hen Andrew McMahon was in the fourth grade, his family moved to California to support his uncle during the final stages of terminal melanoma.

“He was the man behind the Jane Fonda workouts,” says the musician and songwriter 25 years later. “As one of first people to create programming for VHS and home video, he was a really successful, creative guy. This moment in time and the impression he made on me coincided with meeting a friend whose dad was in a garage band who taught me a few songs on the piano.”

McMahon admits that while he may not have realized it at the time, his first forays into songwriting were almost certainly some form of coping with what had happened to his uncle.

“I think what I found in those early days was that the piano and songwriting

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was my way into what I was feeling,” says McMahon. “Some unconscious things were lying beneath an emotion or reaction to the words. For as long as I can remember, this has been my primary source of processing. It’s a pretty huge blessing I can make a living out of something so closely tied to catharsis.”

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“ You just start making sounds with your vocal chords and mouth it into something that sounds like music. You want to chase down a sort of energy.”

leukemia. All future tour dates were cancelled. Throughout the summer, he underwent chemotherapy, radiation treatment and eventually a lifesaving stem-cell transplant from his sister.

“I turned 23 in the hospital,” he says. “I’ll be cancer-free for 12 years this summer.”

In 2006, McMahon began the Dear Jack Foundation to advocate for adolescents and young adults with cancer.

“Jack was a childhood leukemia survivor,” he says. “There were a lot of really strange moments that felt kind of prophetic and fated and so when it came time to start the foundation it felt right to name it after Jack and kind of write him into that part of the story.”

After several years of recording with Jack’s Mannequin, McMahon had found success as a touring musician and songwriter for television. But when the filesharing revolution rocked the music industry, he grew disillusioned with a corporate career he’d pursued since he was 18. In 2012, McMahon disbanded Jack’s Mannequin to embark on a solo project called Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness.

“That process became very much about taking time away from the commercial dance you do as a musician until I figured out how I wanted to step into that place again,” he says. “It was all about stimulating my creativity, holding myself to account

–Andrew McMahon

and finding a way back into making music that felt genuine.”

McMahon’s biggest hit to date is “Cecilia and The Satellite” from his 2014 eponymous solo LP. The song was inspired by his daughter who shares her name with the patroness of musicians.

“I’ve always been a fairly autobiographical wwriter,” he says. “Even when I’m telling another person’s story, I always spend some time on the way the words cut best and feel most truthful to the experience. Generally, this process is pretty self-reflective. You usually don’t have to dig too deep to understand where I stand inside a song.”

McMahon usually starts a new project by sitting at the piano until he figures out a certain theme or chord progression that starts to feel like a song.

“Even as I’ve gone on in years, it generally comes down to having some sort of emotion or mood building off the piano,” he says. “You just start making sounds with your vocal chords and mouth it into something that sounds like music. You want to chase down a sort of energy. A lot of times the best stuff comes quickly. You might write the bulk of a really good song in a matter of hours or even minutes.”  For more information or for tickets, visit andrewmcmahon.com or harrahstahoe.com.

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“Vagina Monologues” Lake Tahoe Community College 8 p.m.

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Jack Di Carlo Gold Hill Hotel 5:30 p.m.

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The Moon and You Peppermill 6 p.m.

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Just Us Atlantis 8 p.m.

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Bobbie R. & Paul J. Eldorado 8:30 p.m.

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Blazing Mics! Jub Jub’s 9:30 p.m.

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“ Someone begins playing and we build

JAM ROCK

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fter completing a whirlwind 2017 tour opening for Umphrey’s McGee and headlining summer music festivals throughout the nation, Spafford retreated home to Phoenix to regroup.

“For so long, all we knew was work,” says bassist Jordan Fairless. “One day we called it in and didn’t want to rehearse anymore.

We all went to Wet ‘n’ Wild water park instead. We just wanted to eat chili-cheese dogs and go on waterslides. On tour, we call it ‘funishment.’ It’s like, ‘You are required to go have fun right now.’ We’re all just big kids at heart.”

The following day they met back up at their recording studio hidden in an industrial section of Phoenix. Nicknamed “The Pound,” the spot is known for its curious abundance of stray cats. Still chilled out from the waterpark, the band decided to jam rather than rehearse new songs.

“There wasn’t a lot of planning that went into it,” says Fairless.

The 60-minute, spur-of-the-moment, group improvisation Spafford created that day weaved through more than 20 different movements and more than a dozen key changes and time signatures. The result was so fascinating that the band decided to release it as a single LP entitled, “Abaculus: An Improvisational Experience.”

Abaculus is defined by Merriam-Webster Dictionary as “a tile used in mosaic.”

“It’s a bunch of pieces together coming together to form a bigger piece of art,” explains Fairless. “It’s cool because you have to be patient.”

Last spring, Spafford replaced its longtime drummer with newcomer Cameron Laforest.

He previously played with Phoenix psychedelic/funk band Rabbithole Handbook and met Spafford at the local open improvisation night at Cactus Jack’s Bar & Grill.

“I think anytime you put a new musician in it brings something different, but our musical evolution goes beyond the four people we see now,” says Fairless. “Our job is to make sure the music always keeps going, improving and evolving.”

The Spafford approach to jamming is simple: listen to each other: “We start with nose goes,” says Fairless. “Someone begins playing and we build on top of that. When you start listening to everyone you can really

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on top of that. When change the music. This leads to fluid key changes and the ability to move on a dime.”

Spafford members are well-trained in the raw elements of musical theory. “There are some techniques we use in order to create defined ways of transitioning and changing keys intentionally,” Fairless says.

“I’ll have an idea of where something can go and then use the rules we’ve created to get there. But if I divulge our trade secrets, I’ve gone too far.”

Fairless describes improvisation as “spontaneously created music.” What sets Spafford’s work apart is rather than a single player extemporizing over a set chord structure, all four band members move instinctively through full themes and movements of music created on the fly by group mind.

“We’re basically writing songs and venturing forth in the moment,” says Fairless.

“I recently said to Cameron, ‘One day you will be able to read my mind and you won’t have to think about it.’ We can all four have our eyes closed and that’s the greatest moment. I’ve been out of my body for up to three minutes: unconscious and tapped in. I was not there. I was completely taken over by music. I look at pictures of us and my eyes are rolling back in my head. I was warped into another dimension.”

Spafford’s improvisation comes from a mix of talent, practice and cooperation, but even they have to admit that some of their greatest jams may be inspired by a power higher than themselves.

“We’re channeling it,” says Fairless. “You can feel it in the room. The crowd gets more responsive and goes to a different space.

Everyone on stage is looking up and you can see that we are all connected into the great spirit. We are tapping into sacred things.”

“Music has always been my higher power and what makes my life make sense,” continues the Alabama-born musician who cut his chops in his parents’ Nashville Baptist church choir. “That’s the connection I look for in people out there. Sometimes it’s the one person not dancing, completely taken away by the moment. His eyes are closed, his hands are on his heart. We’ve all been there and that’s what keeps us coming back.”  For more information or for tickets, visit spafford.net or crystalbaycasino.com.

you start listening to everyone you can really change the music.”

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Carson City Symphony w/Stephen Framil Carson City Community Center 4 p.m.

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FEB. 26 | MONDAY

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Roem Baur Carson Valley Inn 6 p.m.

Canyon White Living the Good Life 6:30 p.m.

Tune-in Tuesdays Ceol Irish Pub 7 p.m.

Afroman Jub Jub’s 7 p.m.

Just Us Atlantis 8 p.m.

Bobbie & Paul J. Eldorado 8:30 p.m.

DG Kicks Big Band 3rd Street Bar 9 p.m.

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Terri & Craig Glen Eagles 7 p.m.

Rick Metz Blues Jam Sands Regency 7 p.m.

Jazz Jam Living the Good Life 7:30 p.m.

Just Us Atlantis 8 p.m.

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Incline HS Jazz Band Loft Bar 2 p.m.

Jacked Up Village at Squaw 2 p.m.

Live music Alpine Bar 2 p.m.

Jody Sweet Piano Best Pies 4 p.m.

Live music Hard Rock 4 p.m.

Live music Plaza Bar 6 p.m.

One Night of Queen Harrah’s 7:30 pm.

Chris Costa Tahoe Biltmore 8 p.m.

Steve & Tom Gar Woods 8 p.m.

Killer Dueling Pianos MontBleu 9 p.m.

Rapplesauce and friends Moe’s BBQ 9 p.m.

Drinking with Clowns Whiskey Dick’s 9 p.m.

Moondog Matinee & Dragoneer Crystal Bay Club 9 p.m.

Paul Bar of America 9:30 p.m.

DJ Parties Live DJ Big Blue View Bar 12 p.m.

DJ Cat East Peak Lodge 1 p.m.

Live DJ Tamarack Lodge 3:30 p.m.

Arty the Party Harrah’s 8 p.m.

DJ Roger That! The Loft 10 p.m.

DJ David Aaron MontBleu 10 p.m.

Live DJ Rookies 10 p.m.

Live DJ Hard Rock 10 p.m.

Open Mic & Karaoke MontBleu 9 p.m.

Theater, Comedy & Dance Dancing with the Tahoe Stars MontBleu 6:30 p.m.

“Magic Fusion” The Loft 7 & 9 p.m.

“Left in the Wicker Basket” Truckee Community Arts Center 7 p.m.

Electrify: Rock N Roll Burlesque Show Hard Rock 9 p.m.

Raj Sharma w/Sandro Iocolano The Improv 9 p.m.

RENO & BEYOND Just Us Atlantis 4 p.m.

Gil Eldorado 4:30 p.m.

GHI Jazz Living the Good Life 6 p.m.

Corky Bennett Airport Plaza Hotel 6 p.m.

Craig, Terri, Rocky & D. Spiteri Glen Eagles 7 p.m.

Kling Rod & Lil Sheik Jub Jub’s 7 p.m.

Starship ft. Mickey Thomas Nugget Sparks 8 p.m.

Blues Monsters Carson Valley Inn 8 p.m.

Lonley Avenue, Internet Friends Jub Jub’s 8 p.m.

The Raging Nathans, The Juvinals, Heterophobia, Donkey Jaw Shea’s Tavern 9 p.m.

Scott Pemberton The Saint 8:30 p.m.

Charles The First w/Sorrow & Subdocta The Bluebird 9 p.m.

Golf Clap & Eyes Everywhere 1 Up 10 p.m.

DJ Parties Living the Good Life 9 p.m.

DJ Roni V Eldorado 9 p.m.

DJ Bobby G Living the Good Life 9 p.m.

Dance Party St. James Infirmary 9 p.m.

DJ Chris English El Jefe’s 9:30 p.m.

Country Nights Grand Sierra 10 p.m.

Dance Party Grand Sierra 10 p.m.

DJ Montague Eldorado 10:30 p.m.

Open Mic & Karaoke Karaoke w/Darren Castle Club Cal Neva 8 p.m.

Karaoke West 2nd Street 8 p.m.

Karaoke The Point 9 p.m.

Theater, Comedy & Dance Shrine Circus Reno-Sparks Livestock Events Center “The Frog Prince” Brüka Theatre 11 a.m.

Skyler Stone Pioneer Underground 6:30 & 9:30 p.m.

Bob Zany Laugh Factory 7:30 & 9:30 p.m.

IMOMSOHARD Silver Legacy 8 p.m.

Special Events World’s Largest Cribbage Tournament Sands Regency

MARCH 4 | SUNDAY TAHOE & TRUCKEE Owen Big Loft Bar 1 p.m.

Jody Sweet Piano Best Pies 4 p.m.

DJ Parties Arty the Party Harrah’s 8 p.m.

DJ Chris English Cabo Wabo 9 p.m.

Open Mic & Karaoke Open Mic Pastime Club 9:30 p.m.

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Karaoke w/Andrew The Grid 9:30 p.m.

Theater, Comedy & Dance “Magic Fusion” The Loft 4:30 & 7 p.m.

Raj Sharma w/Sandro Iocolano The Improv 9 p.m.

TAHOE & TRUCKEE Bluegrass Open Jam Session Alibi Ale Truckee 6 p.m.

Theater, Comedy & Dance “Magic Fusion” The Loft 7 p.m.

RENO & BEYOND Live music chez louie 10 a.m.

Tristan Selzler Brasserie St. James 12 p.m.

Sunday Jazz Wild River Grille 2 p.m.

Gil Eldorado 4:30 p.m.

P’Opera Le Café Chanson 5 & 7:30 p.m.

Deep Groove Red Dog Saloon 5:30 p.m.

Jonathon Barton Carson Valley Inn 6 p.m.

John Shipley Gold Hill Hotel 6:30 p.m.

Royce The Point 7 p.m.

Astro Phobes Jub Jub’s 8 p.m.

Bobbie R. & Paul J. Eldorado 8:30 p.m.

DJ Parties DJ Mo Funk Silver Legacy 9 p.m.

Open Mic & Karaoke Premier Karaoke Show The Point 6:30 p.m.

Karaoke West 2nd Street 8 p.m.

Karaoke w/Darren Castle Club Cal Neva 8 p.m.

Theater, Comedy & Dance “The Frog Prince” Brüka Theatre 11 a.m.

Special Events World’s Largest Cribbage Tournament Sands Regency Shrine Circus Reno-Sparks Livestock Events Center

RENO & BEYOND CW & Mr. Spoons Comma Coffee 12 p.m.

Gil Eldorado 4:30 p.m.

Jonathon Barton Carson Valley Inn 6 p.m.

Shawn James, Josiah Knight, Hector Acevedo Shea’s Tavern 9 p.m.

Bobbie R. & Paul J. Eldorado 8:30 p.m.

Cee-Lo Tournament Jub Jub’s 9 p.m.

Open Mic & Karaoke Open Mic Java Jungle 7 p.m.

Gold Hill Hotel 7 p.m.

Karaoke West 2nd Street 9:30 p.m.

Blazing Mics! Jub Jub’s 9:30 p.m.

Live Band Karaoke Eldorado 10 p.m.

Open Mic & Karaoke Tunesday Open Mic Brewforia 8 p.m.

Theater, Comedy & Dance “Magic Fusion” The Loft 7 p.m.

RENO & BEYOND CW & Dr. Spitmore Comma Coffee 12 p.m.

John Shipley Eldorado 4:30 p.m.

Cliff and Dave Carson Valley Inn 6 p.m.

Canyon White Living the Good Life 6:30 p.m.

Tune-in Tuesdays Ceol Irish Pub 7 p.m.

First Take Renaissance Reno 7 p.m.

Bobbie & Paul J. Eldorado 8:30 p.m.

DG Kicks Big Band 3rd Street Bar 8 p.m.

DJ Parties DJ Chris English Eldorado 10 p.m.

Open Mic & Karaoke Trey Valentine’s Backstage Karaoke Silver Legacy 8 p.m.

Karaoke West 2nd Street 8 p.m.

Theater, Comedy & Dance Tim Gaither Laugh Factory 7:30 p.m.

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Buddy Emmer Band Harrah’s 8 p.m.

Anderson East w/J.S. Ondara Crystal Bay Club 9 p.m.

DJ Parties Lip Sync w/Dreu Murin MontBleu 10 p.m.

DJ Keenan Whiskey Dicks 9 p.m.

Ike & Martin “M.S. Dixie” 5:30 p.m.

DJ Parties DJ Chapin River Ranch 3:30 p.m.

DJ Chris English Cabo Wabo 9 p.m.

Open Mic & Karaoke Karaoke Classic Cue 9 p.m.

Auld Dubliner 9 p.m.

Theater, Comedy & Dance “Magic Fusion” The Loft 7 p.m.

Sarah Tiana w/Alex Edelman The Improv 9 p.m.

RENO & BEYOND Dave Leather Comma Coffee 12 p.m.

John Shipley Eldorado 4:30 p.m.

Cliff and Dave Carson Valley Inn 6 p.m.

Terri & Craig Glen Eagles 7 p.m.

Rick Metz Blues Jam Sands Regency 7 p.m.

Jazz Jam Living the Good Life 7:30 p.m.

Bobbie R. & Paul J. Eldorado 8:30 p.m.

Open Mic & Karaoke Open Mic St. James Infirmary 1 p.m.

Open Mic Red Dog Saloon 7 p.m.

Open Mic Firkin & Fox 7 P.m.

Theater, Comedy & Dance Tim Gaither Laugh Factory 7:30 p.m.

MARCH 8 | THURSDAY TAHOE & TRUCKEE Jody Sweet Piano Best Pies 4 p.m.

DJ Parties Roger That! The Loft 10:30 p.m.

Open Mic & Karaoke Open Mic Classic Cue 8 p.m.

Open Mic Alibi Ale Works 9 p.m.

Karaoke Fat Cat Bar 9 p.m.

Karaoke The Grid 9:30 p.m.

Lip Sync w/Dreu Murin MontBleu 10 p.m.

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LAKE DANCE TAHOE COLLECTIVE CHRISTIN HANNA, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

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Feb. 23 | 8 p.m.

Nugget Casino Resort | Sparks, Nev.

Steve Miller Band, Frampton heading to Tahoe

GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING singer songwriter Peter Cetera and his seven-piece electric band perform his timeless hits.

Cetera was the singer/songwriter and bass player for the legendary rock group Chicago.

As a solo artist, Cetera has recorded 10 albums including his No. 1 hits: “The Glory of Love,” “The Next Time I Fall,” “Feels Like Heaven” and the unforgettable “Restless Heart.” | nuggetcasinoresort.com

A great classic rock show has been added to the lineup for the 2018 Lake Tahoe Summer Concert Series at Harveys Outdoor Arena: The Steve Miller Band and Peter Frampton will hit the stage on Aug. 17, as first reported at TheTahoeWeekly.com.

The lineup for the summer concert series now features Kenny Chesney on July 3, Phish on July 17 and 18, Keith Urban with two shows on July 21 and 22, Chris Stapleton performing July 26, Charlie Puth on Aug. 18, and Dave Matthews Band on Sept. 7. | Tickets harveystahoe.com

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Theater, Comedy & Dance Sarah Tiana w/Alex Edelman The Improv 9 p.m.

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ELECTRONIC

Feb. 24 | 10 p.m.

The Loft at Heavenly | South Lake Tahoe THE MOSCOW-BASED production duo VOLAC makes their debut in Tahoe.

VOLAC’s signature deep-house, basshouse and g-house sound are highlighted with deep powerful basslines and energetic grooves. | thelofttahoe.com

Gil Eldorado 4:30 p.m.

Tully Green Bella Fiore Wines 5:30 p.m.

Dave Leather Sassafras 6:30 p.m.

CeCe Gable w/Bill Hecht Renaissance Reno 6:30 p.m.

Terri, Craig & Mick Glen Eagles 7 p.m.

Frank Perry Jazz Combo 3rd Street Bar 8 p.m.

Kayzo Cargo 8 p.m.

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Shea’s Tavern 9 p.m.

Squirrel Nut Zippers The Saint 8 p.m.

Bobbie & Paul J. Eldorado 8:30 p.m.

DJ Parties DJ Bobby G Living the Good Life 8:30 p.m.

DJ Mo Funk Silver Legacy 9 p.m.

DJ Kovert Grand Sierra 10 p.m.

Country Nights Grand Sierra 10 p.m.

DJ Enfo & Twyman Peppermill 10 p.m.

DJ Montague Eldorado 10:30 p.m.

Open Mic & Karaoke Karaoke Club Cal Neva 8 p.m.

Karaoke West 2nd Street 8 p.m.

Karaoke The Point 8 p.m.

Theater, Comedy & Dance Tim Gaither Laugh Factory 7:30 p.m.

Comedy Night at Lex Grand Sierra 8 p.m.

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Phone: (775) 881-7562 Email: tercinfo@ucdavis.edu Hands-on science activities, Web: terc.ucdavis.edu

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Classical Tahoe celebrates its 7th season of bringing outstanding orchestral music to the Tahoe region in a 12-concert series from July 20 to Aug. 12, 2018, as first reported at TheTahoeWeekly.com.

Classical Tahoe will present the world premiere of “Double Concerto for Violin and Cello” by award-winning composer and musician Chris Brubeck, featuring world-renowned artists Jaime Laredo, violin and Sharon Robinson, cello. An expanded orchestra will allow the festival to offer larger symphonic repertoire, ranging from Brahms Symphony No. 2 to a celebration of Leonard Bernstein’s birthday anniversary with the suite from the ballet “Fancy Free.” Season subscriptions go on sale on March 15; with single tickets on sale April 1. Visit TheTahoeWeekly. com and click on Music Scene for the season lineup. | (775) 298-0245 or classicaltahoe.org

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WEEKLY FOOD DISTRIBUTION LOCATIONS AND TIMES: MONDAYS TAHOE CITY | 3:00pm to 3:30pm Fairway Community Center, 330 Fairway Drive TUESDAYS TRUCKEE | 3:30pm to 4pm Sierra Senior Center, 10040 Estates Drive WEDNESDAYS KINGS BEACH | 3:00pm to 3:30pm Community House, 265 Bear Street THURSDAYS INCLINE VILLAGE | 3:00pm to 3:30pm St. Patrick’s Church 341 Village Blvd.

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West Shore Cafe in Homewood has named Robb Wyss the new executive chef of the lakefront restaurant. Wyss will oversee all restaurant culinary activities including lunch and dinner service, in-room dining and West Shore Cafe’s banquet and catering offerings.

Wyss previously served as the executive chef at Sunnyside Restaurant & Lodge. During his tenure, he created dishes focused around the offerings of local farms and highlighting the seasonality of the Sierra.

He brings more than 20 years of culinary experience to Lake Tahoe’s West Shore.

“I have come to love creating dynamic cuisine for people to enjoy,” Wyss said in a press release. “I am passionate about designing culinary dishes from local farmers’ products and exploring new cuisine that signifies the local growing region. When I put my creativity and passion into a dish, I feel like it translates to my customers and their experience and keeps them coming back for more.” | westshorecafe.com

Dinner by the light of the moon Alpine Meadows After the mountain closes and the winter moon rises, experience a snowshoe tour to the mid-mountain Chalet at Alpine Meadows. Enjoy an intimate seated dinner where guests will be served an Alps-inspired menu with dishes like potato cheese soup, chicken cordon bleu and apple strudel.

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rinks smoke, fizzle and glow. Men and women in white lab coats lean over tables at different stations creating, exploring and explaining a myriad of scientific experiments. Glowing gin and tonics blaze in a dark room.

These are just a few of the cocktails served at the U.C. Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center second Science of Cocktails held at its research center on the campus of Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village, Nev. “Our big goal was to put science forward. We wanted to get people out and see how science uses actual info and facts,” said Heather Segale, TERC’s education and outreach director.

Butterfly pea flower extracts demonstrate the pH, or acidity, of cocktails, while par-

LEFT: Christopher Tuck of Alibi Ale Works demonstrates how different hops affect beer. | Katherine E. Hill RIGHT: Beakers of homebrewed kombucha and ginger beer. | Katherine E. Hill

Blue cocktails are lit on fire with 151-proof rum while participants are asked to consider the effects of weather and climate. ticipants test his or her knowledge of acidity and alkalinity of everyday foods and household items. A homemade Breathalyzer measures alcohol consumption, while at the Digestion station participants discover how the body processes food and drink. Vodka-infused Jell-O shots demonstrate the aspects of liquids and solids at the Polymer station.

Each of the 11 science-themed cocktail stations double as learning hubs with unique activities and demonstrations. While drinks are poured and food is served, participants are educated about the science behind it all.

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colder while others are getting warmer,” Segale explained.

At the Fermentation station, participants ponder whether a few drops of water enhance the flavor of whiskey, while Alibi Ale Works’ master brewer Christopher Tuck explains the basics of beer making. A hoppy Kolsch, a dark and nutty Porter, a citrusy pale ale and a unique Abstract Truth dark saison — a fruity, spicy carbonated pale ale, aged in red wine barrels – are the results of his work in fermentation.

Homemade kombucha and ginger beer prove the benefits of fermentation. Alison Toy, TERC’s program coordinator, and Emily Carlson, an environmental scientist with the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, are fermentation aficionados. Two types of homemade of black tea kombucha served: one with plum, which had a sweeter flavor, and the other with apple cider and shaved cinnamon,

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Benjamin Hatchett and Nina Oakley, climate scientists from the Desert Research Institute, are the brains behind the Fire and Food station. Blue cocktails are lit on fire with 151-proof rum while participants are asked to consider the effects of weather and climate, particularly the relationship of wildfires and flooding that can occur with increasing climate change. Oakley studies atmospheric rivers like the ones experienced in the Tahoe Sierra during the winter of 2016-17.

“We had 57 atmospheric rivers last year causing an excess in moisture. This is proof that changes in temperatures of the ocean and Lake Tahoe are affecting what is happening in our area. Overall the climate is warming. Some places are getting

which was a bit tangier. The kombucha process starts with a SCOBY, symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast, which is gelatinous in nature. Different flavors, herbs or teas are added to achieve the desired flavor.

The homemade ginger beers, fermented for different lengths of time, made for a sparkling sublime beverage with an intense gingery flavor. Both the kombucha and ginger brew were enjoyable and felt like a dose of healthy going down.

The event was a sold-out success, said Segale, and TERC may host another Science of Cocktails event later this year.

The Tahoe Environmental Research Center offers free, interactive exhibits, a 3D visualization theater and guided tours for ages 8 years and older Tuesday to Friday from 1 to 5 p.m. For more information, visit terc.ucdavis.edu  Priya Hutner is a writer, health and wellness consultant, and natural foods chef. Her business, The Seasoned Sage, focuses on wellness, conscious eating and healthy living. She offers healthy organic meals for her clients. She may be reached at pria78@ gmail.com or visit theseasonedsage.com. Visit TheTahoeWeekly.com to read more.

FIRE & FLOOD FLAMING COCKTAIL 1 oz. Tahoe Blue Vodka 1/2 oz. blue Curaçao 3 oz. lemonade 151 Everclear or 151 rum Cinnamon Adobe Chili tincture

Add ice and first three ingredients to cocktail shaker. Shake. Pour into glass.

Float 151 Everclear tincture or 151 rum on top. Try to keep it layered on the top of the drink. Light with lighter. Sprinkle cinnamon over top to make it spark. Snuff out flame and pour into another glass to enjoy (glass will be hot). Optional: Add Adobe Chili tincture.

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Rich Backstrom and Travis Ganong are the brains behind Pacific Crest Coffee. They’ll be roasting java, and the grab and go establishment will make drip, pour over, press and nitro brewed coffee.

Truckee Brewing Company owner Dustin Hurley and master brewer Adam Lundy are focused on the Tahoe lifestyle brewing beer and hosting events. The pub boasts an industrial vibe where patrons can sit at a long wooden bar and check out the brewing facility while sampling 12 to 14 flagship varieties of beer in their tasting room. Pacific Crest Coffee and Truckee Brewing Company are set to open in March.

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Beers 4 Bottles Conscious Container and Great Basin Brewing Company host Beers 4 Bottles: The Respectful Revolution Project Video Screening Festival of People Inspiring Change on Feb. 23 from 5 to 9 p.m. at Great Basin Brewery in Reno, Nev. Beers 4 Bottles events are two-fold.

First about informing, engaging and incenting Northern Nevadans to reduce his or her waste by saving empty beer bottles for reuse while fundraising for nonprofits. For every 24 bottle case of empty 12-oz. brown long neck craft beer bottles brought to the Beers 4 Bottles event, attendees earn a free pint of beer (21 and older only). Additionally, locals can bring the same case into either Great Basin Brewpubs for a $1 credit. The evening also includes live music by The Birches, raffles and games. Beers 4 Bottles is an ongoing monthly event.

The Respectful Revolution Project will present a selection of short-form video portraits highlighting innovative, amazing

individuals and initiatives from Northern Nevada and beyond which are sure to inspire everyone joining this festival.

Suggested $5 donation for the event. | consciouscontainer.com

Meet your (veggie) maker Alpine Meadows New this winter at the Tahoe Food Hub Farm Shop is the Meet Your Maker series on the last Friday of every month from 2 to 6 p.m. until March 30. Meet Your Maker gives the public a chance to meet the people who grow, raise and make our food. The next events are Feb. 23 and March 30.

Every Meet Your Maker will have two to three producers with samples and information. Other featured guests will include specialty food producers and other culinary artisans who make products such as pasta, cheese, sauces, jams and more.

There will be shop specials, local music and, occasionally, the fun will roll into the evening with a cooking class, workshop or food film. | tahoefoodhub.org

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o, a Croatian guy starts an awardwinning coffee plantation on the Big Island of Hawaii. Said Croatian also loves him some Napa Cabernet and buys a vineyard high on Howell Mountain to grow his own. After a time in Napa, he decides it’s not for him and although still specializing in Napa Cabernets he moves the operation to a trendy, funky neighborhood a few blocks from the beach in Santa Cruz. Meet Marin J. Artukovich, owner, brain trust and lead entertainer at MJA Vineyards, whom I guarantee you will not forget.

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You will find Artukovich holding court from the tasting room’s bar/dais where he pontificates in a most entertaining fashion on the wonders and intricacies of Cabernet from a multitude of the best Napa American Viticultural Areas, offering selections for multiple vintages.

Marin Artukovich’s eye chart.

A tasting experience like this of highend Napa juice from a library of regions and years would cost a small fortune in Napa, but here it is all part of the fun — easy to access and quite reasonable with tasting fees from $15 to $40. MJA Vineyards also makes a dizzying number of other wines ranging from refined Santa Cruz Pinots to rustic reds from the Sierra Foothills to Russian River sparklers.

As for the off-the-charts entertainment factor from the owner, I overheard him describing two of his prized 2009 Stag’s Leap Region Cabernet Sauvignons.

Of the “Dos Hombres” version, aged 5 years in new French oak, he said: “This wine will tell you to grab a rib-eye bonein with lots of garlic — medium rare — and tell everyone to leave you alone until it’s done.”

Moving on to the “Temptation” bottling: “This wine says, ‘I’m complicated; I don’t like steak and I need conversation.’ ”

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I am not sure what all that meant technically, but it did seem to capture what was in the bottles and when delivered with his infectious wry smile and generous pours of his excellent wine, it brought aloha throughout the room. Talking to other guests, I was informed the floor show is never ending and always delivered in good spirits.

As for the wines, I could tell he curates his vineyard sources and directs the wine making to create distinct and delicious wines. Again, the Napa Cabernets shine, bringing the kind of power and complexity that makes that region such a star.

Featuring smaller crowds and sunnier weather than summers, winter/spring is the perfect time to visit Santa Cruz. With great wine, indoor/outdoor seating, a most unique tasting program — including the mini-master-class in Napa Cabernet — plus a big wallop of fun-as-heck aloha, MJA Vineyards is a must-visit for wine lovers any time of year. For more information, visit mjavineyards.com.  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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egetarian chili is not unlike any meat chili in that there are quite a few ways to make it. Just think of how many veggies there are out there and you can see it is quite easy to come up with enough ingredients to appease any chili eater, not just the vegetarian.

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If there is a veggie patty you enjoy, don’t be afraid to break a few up and add it to your chili. This is the equivalent of adding burger meat to a meat chili.

Chili is one of the most individualistic recipes. Look at the recipe as a guide.

There might be a vegetable or two in the recipe that for some reason doesn’t appeal to you. If that’s the case, substitute another

vegetable. Think about what veggies you like. Also, do you prefer black beans or kidney beans or even no beans at all. Are you into super spicy or mild? All these things should be considered.

This recipe is easy to modify, but is pretty tasty as is. The main thing to remember is to start with about half of the seasonings and slowly add a little more according to your own tastes. It is always easier to add seasoning and spices than it is to get rid of too much.

One thing I do differently that takes a little effort but adds more flavor is to grate a bit of the carrots to get a little carrot juice. Use the fine grater and grate into a small bowl so you can add the juice and pulp at the right time.

I like a lot of different veggies so the chili is nice and chunky. Again, feel free to add or subtract veggies as your taste buds dictate. Give this a try and enjoy. 

1 large zucchini, diced, using only the outsides & not the seeded center ½ head broccoli, peel & dice the stem, cut the top into small flowerets 3 small cans of beans, any combination of drained kidney, black, garbanzo, etc.

1 large yellow onion, diced 2 stalks celery, diced 3 carrots: 1 small carrot, grated; 2 carrots, sliced 1 large green pepper, diced 1 large red pepper, diced 3 cans diced tomatoes ½ bag frozen super sweet corn 2 large cloves garlic, diced 1-2 jalapeño peppers, minced 1 T oil 5 bay leaves 1 T cumin ½ T chili powder 2 T dried oregano 2 t chili paste Salt and pepper to taste

Cut all the veggies. Blanch and cool the broccoli, keeping the flowerets and the stalk separated. Drain the canned beans before you start.

Get a pot hot on the stove and then turn down to medium heat. Add onions and cook until translucent. Add garlic, carrots, celery, jalapeño, broccoli stalk, peppers, half tablespoon of cumin, oregano, bay leaves and chili powder. Sauté for a few minutes. Add zucchini and sauté another minute, stirring regularly.

Add tomato and simmer on low for 15 minutes. Add beans and simmer on low 15 more minutes Add corn and flowerets and let simmer for 10 minutes. Add chili paste a little at a time and any more seasonings. Salt and pepper to taste.

Remove bay leaves before serving.

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