The National Weather Service is advising against anyone trying to make the trip to Lake Tahoe due to the incoming storm expected to hit the Sierra on Sunday. Forecasters have put out a winter storm warning in effect from 10 p.m. Saturday through 10 a.m. Monday. Got plans tonight-Sunday? Check the forecast first! Here’s a […]
A 16-year-old snowboarder was hospitalized after she slipped out of her chairlift at Mammoth Mountain Ski Resort in California and fell several feet down onto the snow below, ABC7 reported. Video footage from the incident, that occurred on the morning of Jan. 27, shows the teenager dangling from the chairlift as her fellow riders hold […]
The Placer County Sheriff’s Office released the name of the man who was fatally shot by a California State Parks officer on Friday after, authorities said, he crashed a vehicle and wielded a knife outside a hotel near Palisades Tahoe. Vinton Miller, 29, was shot following an alleged carjacking incident about 10 a.m. in Tahoe […]
More than 15 inches of snow blanketed parts of the Tahoe area over the Martin Luther King, Jr., Day holiday weekend, according to the latest totals. According to the National Weather Service’s snow totals, Palisades Tahoe ski resort saw the most snowfall on Saturday — recording 17 inches. Nearby Castle Peak recorded 16 inches of […]
A fresh blanket of snow conceals the historical capsule of weather events that buffet the Sierra Nevada’s slopes. This time capsule is found in the snowpack’s distinct layers. It is where, some experts say, there may be clues as to why two reported avalanches, one of which killed a 66-year-old man, cascaded through Palisades Tahoe […]
Chevrolet added a diesel option to the new-generation 2021 Tahoe and 2021 Suburban, the first time the full-sizers had the option of an oil-burner since 1999. Chevy’s chief engineer for the SUVs told Autoblog at the time, “It really came down to us giving customers a lot of choices. We know the SUV buyer is […]
(KRON) — Dramatic video from Palisades Tahoe surfaced this week. Skiiers dug into the snow to free a man trapped by Wednesday’s avalanche at Palisades Tahoe. KRON4 spoke with a snowboarder who shot this video and helped with the rescue efforts. As more people head up to the Sierra for a three-day weekend, more snow […]
The ski lift where a deadly avalanche cascaded Wednesday reopened Friday morning following its closure and two days of mitigation work at Palisades Tahoe, a resort official said. Patrick Lacey, a spokesman for Palisades Tahoe, wrote in an email that the KT-22 Express lift reopened to the public but that the GS Bowl gully, just […]
One person was killed and one other person was injured during an avalanche at a Lake Tahoe ski resort on January 10, local authorities said. The Placer County Sheriff’’s Office identified the victim as 66-year-old Kenneth Kidd, who was a resident of both Point Reyes and the Truckee Tahoe area. The one injured person was […]
Jason Parker was snowboarding at Palisades Tahoe on Wednesday when an avalanche erupted on the mountain, burying him underneath feet of snow and killing one man. It was the first day the KT-22 chairlift was open at the ski resort in Olympic Valley, California, and Parker and his fiancée both had a day off, so, […]
Officials reported an avalanche on the Alpine Meadows side of Palisades Tahoe on Thursday afternoon, just one day after an avalanche killed one man and injured three others on the other mountain of the popular Sierra Nevada ski resort. The snowslide happened near Wolverine Bowl at about 12:30 p.m., Patrick Lacey, a spokesman for Palisades […]
After an avalanche killed a man at one of the Sierra Nevada region’s most popular ski resorts and left three other skiers injured, people were left wondering about the location of the deadly disaster. Specifically, what is KT-22? And what makes the lift so special? The icy slide began around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday above the […]