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Being Outdoors Makes You Happier
Get outside. It makes You happy! This L.A. Times piece highlights an interesting study carried out by psychologists from the University of Rochester. Subjects were shown sets of images and were then...
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Help the Forest Service Decide
The Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit of the U.S. Forest Service is seeking public comment on the actions proposed to deal with invasive plant species on National Forest lands in the Lake Tahoe Area....
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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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Bishop Up In Flames (On Purpose)
The Mammoth and Mono Lake Ranger districts together with the BLM office in Bishop, CA have scheduled several fire projects during the upcoming fall and winter months to reduce hazardous fuel buildup...
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Two Yosemite Valley Grade V 5.13’s In A Five Day Push
From the realm of the superhuman: Between Oct. 16-21 Doug Engelkirk managed to send Leaning Tower’s Westie Face (V 5.13a /b AO , 9 pitches, 700 feet) and Washington Column’s Quantum Mechanic (V 5.13a...
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Santa Barbara Bouldering Open Again
After months of waiting, two popular bouldering areas located in the hills above Santa Barbara have reopened to public use. The Brickyard, a remarkable sandstone boulderfield that holds such classics...
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California State Parks Suffer Drastic Cutbacks
While Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger promised to keep California State Parks open, he didn’t stress how drastic some changes would be to deal with the 14.2 million dollar reduction in the Park budget. A...
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California Athlete Featured in Tele-Ski Film
Ty Dayberry, a South Lake Tahoe local and member of Heavenly Ski Resort’s “High Roller Team,” is featured in the new extreme telemark skiing film, The Freeheel Life. The film documents the travels and...
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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...
View ArticlePreserving the Sierras – Northern Sierra Partnership
Kudos to the Northern Sierra Partnership, an effort to buy undeveloped land in the Sierra Nevada in order to preserve them for future generations before any large scale building starts to occur. Via...
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