Total eclipse

Sometimes I’m in the wrong place at the wrong time, as I was in Virginia last August when the earthquake struck just ten miles from my client’s office. Sometimes I am in the right place at the right time.  That was the case today. Lake Tahoe was in the direct path of the total eclipse [...]

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Winter Returns to the Sierra

Copious amounts of snow fell in the Tahoe Basin this week. Let’s hope for more dumps in March. Diamond Peak near the top.

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Boulder Bay Resort plan approved for North Lake Tahoe

The bi-state North Lake Tahoe Regional Planning Authority (TRPA) approved the development of an upscale resort in Crystal Bay, Nevada, within walking distance of the California state line. The project, named Boulder Bay, has been hotly debated for years.  Significant concessions were made by the developers and it appears to be on its way to [...]

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The Mother of Inland Tsunamis

One of the worst tsunamis to strike California did not occur along the coast, but near the Nevada border at Lake Tahoe.   It was triggered my a massive landslide near present day Homewood (about midway on the West Shore) and sent water sloshing back and forth across the lake as if it were a [...]

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Thanks to a large snowpack, water outlook is good

The Lake Tahoe snowpack is 176% of normal, which is probably indicative of the Sierra as a whole. The powerful winter storms have left the ski resorts with 12 – 25 foot bases. They have kept me busy as well – I have been shoveling off and on since Thanksgiving.

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At least it’s not as insane as skinny dipping

The closest I come to the bone-chilling water in Lake Tahoe in the winter is when I cross-country ski on the beach. How about kayaking across the lake when the water temperature in 34 degrees and the air temperature in well below freezing? I’ll stick to the jacuzzi. Apparently, a few people don’t let the [...]

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Ignoring Permits Can be Costly – Somewhere Else

Maybe developers and property owners can get away with running roughshod over building codes in Los Angeles, but it is another story in the Lake Tahoe basin. One man learned the hard way and faces a $120,000 fine. http://www.tahoebonanza.com/article/20110127/NEWS/110129935/1061&ParentProfile=1050

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Snow Pack Looking Very Good

During my last two trips to Lake Tahoe, I have shoveled more snow and experienced more winter weather than in my twenty-five years on the mid-Atlantic coast. I even cross-country skied from the house to the lake and back on the village streets – a round-trip distance of about two miles – and did not have [...]

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Fall in the Sierra

Fall color is reaching its peak in the Sierra.  There is still time to enjoy the display.

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Clamming Up

Invasive species are a threat in any body of water. A recent disturbing discovery of a single Asian carp beyond an electronic barrier protecting Lake Michigan from infestation raised alarms about the adverse environmental and economic effects the fish could cause. Closer to home, another Asian aquatic species – clams - started to gain a small [...]

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