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Expect a Banner Wildflower Season in Sierra Nevada
Time to break out the macro lens (or, at least, flip the little dial to macro mode) to get those beautiful close-ups of our famous Sierra Nevada wildflowers. The SF Chronicle is predicting a banner...
View ArticleClimate Change Displaces Sierra Bird Species
New University of California study predicts that up to one-third of California bird spieces may move out of state as their habitat transforms due to climate change. Via ABC 7:
View ArticleMusic to My Ears: Storm Brings Snow to Sierra
YES YES YES! Man I’m really getting itchy feet for winter. Just signed lease for Tahoe ski house. Boreal ski area had it’s earliest opening day ever. Now lets’s get a good, fat base. Sounds like we’re...
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International Day of Climate Action: Saturday, October 24
With more than 4,800 actions planned across 179 countries the International Day of Climate Change, scheduled tomorrow October 24, has the potential to become the largest public demonstration devoted...
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Keeping Tahoe Blue – Kudos to Homewood Ski Resort
Homewood is doing some simple, but powerful, things to keep Tahoe blue. They’ve begun an effort to keep sediment from running right down the hill and into the lake. If you haven’t been to Homewood, it...
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Boreal Open 7 Days a Week
Back in October, Mammoth had it’s second earliest opening day ever. Then they had to shutter the joint due to warm weather. Now, they’re slated to reopen November 7. But if you’re in dire need of snow,...
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The Success Of Failure At Lover’s Leap
I packed the gear the night before, Dara checked the weather, and I was even somewhat awake at 6 am. It seemed like sneaking out on a Wednesday morning to drive to Lake Tahoe was shaping up to be an...
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Sierra Ski Season Off to a Fab Start
I spent the weekend at our place in north Tahoe watching more than four feet of snow fall in just a few days. That’s a fantastic start to the season and should make for a solid base at area resorts and...
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Sierra Nevada Avalanche Education, Advisory and Forecast Resources
With the start of the ski season, I thought it prudent to do a roundup of avalanche resources available online and in the Sierra Nevada region. Now you have no excuse. Go take that avalanche course...
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El Niño in the Sierras
Bill Martin, Meteorologist at KTVU After a frothy start to the ski season with early resort openings and talk of El Niño, many of us began wondering if this could be the epic year we’ve been waiting...
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