New Year’s Eve Celebrations

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Celebrate New Year’s Eve with celebrations for everyone from family friendly events and guided snowshoe tours to late-night parties and fireworks. Read our outside and entertainment calendars in this edition for live music and outings in the area or online at TheTahoeWeekly.com; click on Events.

Mt. Rose | Celebrate New Year’s skiing at Mt. Rose followed by an après kick-off launch of 2022 with a cat parade and kids’ torchlight parade at 5 p.m. and fireworks at 5:45 p.m. | skirose.com

Tahoe Donner | Enjoy the Light Parade for skiers ages 10 and older followed by the annual fireworks show. Snowbird Chairs loads at 6:15 p.m. for the show followed by the fireworks. Register before the parade. | tahoedonner.com

Palisades Tahoe | Join an LED

Torchlight Parade on New Year’s Eve at 5 p.m. on Exhibition. Fireworks will be

Courtesy Northstar California

at 7 p.m., followed by live music on the KT deck from 7 to 9 p.m. Register for the parade online. | palisadestahoe.com

Northstar | Ring in the New Year with a family-friendly evening with live music at 7 p.m. and a fireworks show at 9 p.m. | northstarcalifornia.com

South Shore | Enjoy live music at Heavenly Village’s Main Stage on Dec. 30 and 31. Heavenly Holidays reaches its zenith on New Year’s Eve with a gondola drop coordinated with the midnight ball drop in New York City’s Time Square at 9:00 p.m. PT. The party continues into the night at casino nightclubs and local venues. Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Lake Tahoe will ring in 2022 with fireworks at midnight. | tahoesouth.com, hardrockcasinolaketahoe.com n

5:45 p.m. | Mt. Rose 6:30ish p.m. | Tahoe Donner Downhill 7 p.m. | Palisades Tahoe | Olympic Valley 9 p.m. | Heavenly | South Lake Tahoe 9 p.m. | Northstar California | Truckee Midnight | Hard Rock | Stateline, Nev.

Lila Lapanja | Tahoe Ski Girl

Tahoe Ski Girl, a Tahoe apres-ski apparel company for girls and women, has launched a fundraiser to help local athlete Lila Lapanja, the reigning U.S. Alpine Combined Champion, to go to the Winter Olympic Games in February.

Lapanja has been part of the U.S. Ski Team for 6 years and represented the USA in this year’s inaugural FIS World Cup slalom race at Levi, Finland.

Lapanja has designed a Team Lila T-shirt and hat for Tahoe Ski Girl that is available for sale online with all the profits going directly to the skier. | tahoeskigirl.com

A limited number of discounted lift tickets are on sale now for Palisades Tahoe and Northstar California. All proceeds will benefit the Tahoe Truckee Excellence in Education Foundation.

Starting Jan. 1, tickets will also be available to Homewood Mountain Resort, Tahoe Donner Downhill and Cross-Country areas, and Tahoe XC.

Downhill tickets may be purchased at Tahoe Dave’s shops or online at exined. org for Northstar only. Cross-country tickets are available at Paco’s in Truckee and Alpenglow Sports in Tahoe City.

After a year-long hiatus, the Tahoe Rim Trail Association’s has partnered with Tahoe Institute for Natural Science and the Sugar Pine Foundation to offer guided winter outings.

Trekkers will be treated to impressive scenery while learning Tahoe’s long and storied natural history at little to no cost starting on Jan. 6 and running through April 2. | RSVP tahoerimtrail.org

Sierra-at-Tahoe has announced a new partnership with Vail Resorts to continue to honor academic achievement by offering South Shore school students the opportunity to ski or ride at Heavenly, Kirkwood and Northstar with a Tahoe Local Pass through the EpicPromise program.

Since 1999, Sierra-at-Tahoe has rewarded students with a complimentary unlimited season pass if they complete an entire school year with straight As through the Straight A Pass Program. With reopening for the 2021-22 winter season still uncertain at Sierra-at-Tahoe, the ski area has partnered with Vail Resorts to offer the program at Heavenly, Kirkwood and Northstar.

“Evaluations continue as Sierra works to repair and restore the mountain, with the goal of a limited reopening in the Spring of 2022,” according to the press release. | epicpromise.com

Students and Educators Local students and educators receive discounted lift ticket pricing at Northstar California for the 2021-22 season. Student tickets are $22 and educator tickets are $42.

The tickets area valid on non-holiday Sundays and minimum-day Wednesdays, during Ski Skate Week and any declared snow day and includes all Tahoe, Truckee, Incline Village and Reno students and school district staff.

Bring a student or school employee ID or a current report card to the Northstar ticket office. Check availability in advance of visiting. | northstarcalifornia.com