In The News – TRPA Releases Draft Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan
March 8, 2024 | Member Submitted
Originally Published in the Moonshine Ink on 03/01/2024, Submitted
The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency is encouraging public review and feedback on key transportation plans to improve Lake Tahoe’s bicycle and pedestrian system and encourage public involvement in transportation improvements. The Active Transportation Plan focuses on connecting all methods of travel that do not rely entirely on a car, like walking, biking, and rolling.
Transportation impacts are the leading source of greenhouse gas emissions globally and a major source of nitrogen pollutants at Lake Tahoe. Excess nitrogen feeds the growth of algae and harms the lake’s famed clarity. Reducing vehicle use and improving safety in the Tahoe Basin is a top priority for TRPA, communities, and partner agencies, according to the agency.
I love love love the big storms. This last one, a true blizzard, reminded me of Minnesota storms on steroids! I know they create hazardous situations for many, and I really advocate just staying home for that reason. Thank you to the Incline Substation deputies and personnel, along with North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District, and all our snowplow drivers for the hard work they did keeping us safe in the blizzard. Personally, I love that storms allow people like me, “who do too much,” to take a break, recover from a cold, do some housework, read, and watch TV with my husband, Richard. But I also love how it brings neighbors together, helping each other with shoveling, sharing meals, etc. And let’s just see if our population increases in the next 9 months….
UPCOMING:
Sam Choy, the chef at Bowl Incline, is in town and has lots of stuff going on at “The Bowl”. BUT, he is also in the Snowfest Parade on Saturday in Kings Beach! Lots of fabulous activities going on through this weekend.
Tahoe Talks at Incline Library next Tuesday….on civil discourse, boring but important so that public meetings don’t become too exciting.
Incline Star Follies on May 3-4… a community show fundraiser for Incline schools. If you moved to Incline in the last 5 years, don’t miss this show! And NO ONE needs talent to be in it! This is the best event to bring UNITY into COMMUNITY, with kids from the schools getting on stage with residents and school personnel.
Ski-Related Businesses in Incline Village to Help you Enjoy your Winter in our Sierra Nevada Playground
March 6, 2024 | Member Submitted
By Drew Monson, UNRLT student and IVCBA Business Intern and staff members
We finally got that big storm we have all been waiting for! There are plenty of businesses in Incline that want to help you enjoy it. With our very own Diamond Peak, groomed trails at Mt. Rose by Nevada Nordic, and a handful of businesses supplying gear for rental and purchase, there’s no better time than now to experience our winter wonderland.
Nevada Nordic
Cross-country skiing. Groomed trails off of Mt. Rose. Free. THIS is what Nevada Nordic has done for our community. Trails are groomed nightly right now. Go to Nevadanordic.org for trail maps and the best places to park. Nevada Nordic is dedicated to establishing groomed trails where individuals of all ages and skill levels can engage in outdoor pursuits such as cross-country skiing. Nevadanordic.com
Tahoe Multisport Cross-Country Ski and Snowshoe Rentals
If you are new to winter sports and don’t have the equipment, try renting from Tahoe Multisport. Based in Incline Village, Tahoe Multisport stands as a beacon for outdoor enthusiasts. For those eager to glide through the serene winter landscape, Tahoe Multisport provides cross-country ski and snowshoe rentals. When the seasons change, look forward to their kayak and paddleboard rentals. Tahoe Multisport offers a diverse array of equipment rentals, sales, and guided experiences to cater to every outdoor pursuit.
After the recent storm, avoid driving far on the snowy roads and ski local at Diamond Peak! Here’s the highlights of seasonal events yet to come.
March 23-24th: the Luggi Foeger Uphill/Downhill Festival. Race to the top of the mountain using any human-powered method (skins, snowshoes, etc.), then ski or snowboard back down to the finish line.
April 13th: the 22nd annual Dummy Downhill is where participants build dummies to get launched off of a big jump and crash hard while spectators gather and watch.
On select Wednesdays for the rest of the season, enjoy Last Tracks Wine/Beer Tastings from Snowflake Lodge. On select Fridays, join guides from the Incline Village Parks & Recreation Department for evening Snowshoe Hikes to Diamond Peak’s Snowflake Lodge.
Get the latest and greatest ski and snowboard gear available for both rental and purchase. Their knowledgeable staff is there to help you make informed choices that result in better rides and more fun. They have an a amazing stock of name brand ski wear, boots, mittens and everything you need to be comfortable…and fashionable. Their stock changes with seasons. They are truly a year-round retail and rental shop. Check out their mountain bikes. But right now, go get geared up at the Village Ski Loft and prepare to get the most out of the recent snowstorm on the mountains!
Can’t decide which sport is your favorite? Skiing or mountain biking? Why decide! Try A Skibike, a new member of IVCBA gives a new way to get down the mountain. Some skibike friendly resorts in Lake Tahoe are Sierra-at-Tahoe, Heavenly, Northstar, Kirkwood and Boreal. Try A Skibike has a comprehensive range of services including rentals, demos, lessons, and a structured Learn to Ride program featuring six progressive levels. Moreover, they provide Skibike coaching certification and collaborate with multiple skibike rental vendors and manufacturers. Learn more at tryaskibike.com
Praxis Custom Skis Handcrafted in Incline Village
Praxis is a local company based in Incline Village, crafting skis in a distinctive manner that sets them apart. Unlike the conventional industry practice of using plastic tops, Praxis uses handcrafted wood veneer tops. By opting for wood veneers over plastic tops, Praxis is taking a step towards a more eco-friendly approach to skiing. The use of wood veneers not only reduces the environmental impact but also elevates the skis’ performance. With Praxis, you also have the option to customize your skis, which is a unique offering to this area.
In The News – Recent storm ‘among strongest on record’; pushes Tahoe snowpack above 100%
March 6, 2024 | Member Submitted
Originally Published in the Tahoe Daily Tribune, 03/06/2024, Submitted
GREATER LAKE TAHOE AREA, Calif./Nev. – The approximately four-day storm that started on leap day provided enough snow to push area snowpacks just above normal for the first time this winter. The storm outranked all four-day storms since 1981, with only three having a higher four day gain than this blizzard.
“Over the years there have certainly been longer duration events or back-to-back storms that caused far greater snow water increases,” but the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service explains the rate of increase over just four days indicates the storm intensity for this blizzard “was among the strongest on record.”
It pushed the Lake Tahoe Basin snowpack to 101% of the median, and Truckee Basin to 105%. These snowpacks in the eastern Sierras have come a long way since the 44% pack on Jan. 1, the sixth lowest for that date since 1981, but the service says it still has a small ways to go to reach normal spring time peaks.
In The News – Unlocking Tahoe’s dirty secret: Data from a multiyear monitoring project
March 6, 2024 | Member Submitted
Originally Published in the Tahoe Daily Tribune 03/05/24, Submitted
INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. – Clean Up The Lake, the environmental non-profit responsible for the 72-mile cleanup of Lake Tahoe, has recently completed a two-year monitoring effort on the lake. CUTL conservation dive teams revisited 20 litter hotspots in the 0 to 25-foot depths along the Nevada shoreline that were identified during the 72-mile cleanup of Lake Tahoe in 2021.
The primary purpose of this project was to survey these nearshore zones along the Nevada shoreline to observe changes in litter accumulation and perform surveillance for aquatic invasive species (AIS) that may have progressed since 2021. By revisiting places that were already cleaned, the data collected helped determine the status of litter accumulation in Lake Tahoe, its rate of change since the 72-mile cleanup, and the efficacy of CUTL!s SCUBA-enabled cleanup methodology.
A secondary purpose of this monitoring project was to perform 40 additional deep dive surveys between the 35 and 70-foot depths near each hot spot location to better assess litter loads and AIS at deeper depths.
In The News – Ski Patroller Shares How to Navigate Inbound Avalanche Terrain Safely
March 6, 2024 | Member Submitted
Originally published by Moonshine Ink 02/08/24, Written by Alex Hoeft
The recent tragedy of an inbound avalanche fatality at Palisades Tahoe is a solemn reminder of the natural disaster possibilities in our region. Moonshine Ink sends many thoughts of comfort to the family of Kenneth Kidd.
With Kidd and many snow recreators in mind, this month’s You Asked. They Answered. is focused on avalanche education and awareness.
Since the winter of 2009/10, there have been 18 inbound avalanche fatalities across the U.S. (compared to 366 avalanche fatalities in total) as of press time.
Enjoy a big time, small town parade including one-of-a-kind floats, live music, community spirit and more throughout downtown Kings Beach this Saturday.
KINGS BEACH, Calif. – March 4, 2024 – The annual Kings Beach Snowfest Parade will take place on Saturday, March 9 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. along Highway 28 starting at Secline Street and ending at the Raccoon Street roundabout.
This fun-filled event will feature creative and entertaining entries from over 30 community nonprofit organizations, governmental agencies, service groups, and local businesses. There will be an announcing stand in front of the King Building on Highway 28 at the Bear Street roundabout. The parade will take place snow, rain, or shine.
Motorists should be aware that Highway 28 in downtown Kings Beach will be closed between Highway 267 and Fox Street for the parade starting at 11:25 a.m. and should plan accordingly. Detour routes will be available to get around the parade route. Please follow posted detour signs and traffic management personnel. Motorists are asked to exercise patience and to drive slowly and carefully through Kings Beach residential neighborhood detour route. Kings Beach businesses within the road closure will maintain normal operating hours.
Highway 28 will re-open as soon as the parade is complete and no later than 12:30 p.m. The Kings Beach Snowfest Parade is produced by North Tahoe Business Association and is sponsored by North Tahoe Community Alliance, North Tahoe Public Utility District, Rotary Club of Tahoe City, Tahoe Forest Health System, Well Being, Mourelatos Lakeshore Resort, The Grid Bar & Grill, Coldwell Banker Select, Tahoe City Marina, Tahoe Truckee Young Life, Tahoe Guide, Plumas Bank, 101.5 KTKE Truckee-Tahoe Radio, Las Panchitas, Boys & Girls Club of North Lake Tahoe, Granlibakken Tahoe, JR Krauss Ltd, Jason’s Beachside Grille, Lanza’s Restaurant.
Plan to spend the full day in Kings Beach before and after the parade as there are many fun events planned including North Tahoe Public Utility District’s Pancake Breakfast and post-parade parties at Tahoe Backyard and The Grid Bar & Grill. For more information about the Kings Beach Snowfest Parade, road closure and detour information, or to volunteer for the parade, please visit www.NorthTahoeBusiness.org or call (530) 546-9000. For a complete schedule of Snowfest events, visit www.TahoeSnowfest.org.
About North Tahoe Business Association
Founded in 1979, North Tahoe Business Association (NTBA) is a nonprofit 501(c)6 organization that strives to improve economic vitality and quality of life in the communities of North Lake Tahoe including Carnelian Bay, Tahoe Vista, Kings Beach, and Crystal Bay. NTBA is a member-based organization made up of 200+ businesses, nonprofit organizations, and individuals. For more information and to become a member, visit www.NorthTahoeBusiness.org.
The 21st anniversary of Incline Star Follies has arrived! Showtimes are Friday, May 3rd and Saturday, May 4th, 2024
After a pandemic-related hiatus, the Incline Star Follies are BACK!!! The Incline Star Follies is a family cabaret filled with all LOCAL talent. Students, teachers and community members take to the stage to showcase great songs and dance their hearts out. This is an amazing community-wide event and “Friend Raiser” that creates cross-cultural and cross-generational relationships through the joy of dance and comedy.
100% of the proceeds raised go to support our local Incline Village schools.
ALL Incline 5th, 8th and high school students (9th-12th) are invited to apply. Application forms were distributed at IES, IMS, IHS and LTS. Sixteen students from each level (5th, 8th, high school) are randomly selected from all eligible applications received. Students are eligible as long as they are students in good standing at their respective schools.
If you’d like to support Incline’s best “friend-raiser”, we welcome your help. Sponsor us to fund our joyful community dance performances, advertise with us to reach our audience of over 1500 community-minded Incline locals, or lend a hand with our costuming, staging, makeup or many other volunteer opportunities. In doing so you’ll help us achieve our vision of a healthy, thriving Incline Village that invests in the development of our youth and fosters deep community connections.
In The News – ‘Principal for a Day’ experiences life at Incline Middle School
March 4, 2024 | Member Submitted
Originally posted in the Tahoe Daily Tribunes 03/04/2024, Written by Brenna O’Boyle
INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. – Incline Middle School’s seasoned principal shared the top job on Thursday with a NV Energy executive as part of “Principal for a Day” program sponsored by the Education Alliance of Washoe County.
“I got to experience the life of a principal in a small school,” said Craig Rosen, NV Energy Senior Project Manager Education and Outreach. “I got to really see his interaction with teachers, faculty and students. He high fives every student, and he know them by name. You can tell he truly cares about his students.”
Rosen spent the morning with Principal Dan Lediard to experience what it is like to be a principal or administrator in the Washoe County School District, and learn about the more than 60,000 students these schools serve.
Have you ever thought that maybe you had special powers but did not know how to tap into them? Well you do. We all do, some to a greater extent than others, and Mark Twain was one of the most gifted of all vision-seers. He was in tune to the possibility of two or more people transmitting the same idea back and forth…
“The world was without an electric telegraph for several thousand years; then Professor Henry, the American, Wheatstone in England, Morse on the sea, and a German in Munich, all invented it at the same time.”
And now, Elon Musk says Neuralink’s first human patient is able to control a computer’s mouse through thinking.
The strangest thing that has ever befallen me took place inside the Clemens home in Hartford. We were shooting a documentary, and while they were setting up the lighting in the billiards room I wandered aimlessly through the rest of that beautiful domicile.
As I was about to enter a downstairs bedroom, and was reaching for the doorknob, my hand instinctively withdrew, without my knowing why. I would learn, that was the room where Susy died, his daughter of 24 years of age, his light that went out. My hand knew I did not want to enter that room, when my head hadn’t a clue. I attribute that phenomenon to his guiding hand, not mine.
Mark Twain examined the ephemeral science of mental telegraphy in an essay he published in 1878…
“When it was three in the morning in Nevada it was six in Hartford, where I lay awake thinking about nothing in particular; and just about that time his ideas came pouring into my head from across the continent, and I got up and put them on paper, under the impression that they were my own original thoughts. I am forced to believe that one human mind can communicate with another, over any sort of distance.”
According to Twain, there are no coincidences, merely instances of mental telegraphy that go unexplained. And so we often hear the common expression, “I was just thinking about you!”
Twain goes on to extrapolate, “The telegraph and telephone are going to become too slow for our needs. We must have the thought itself shot into our minds from a distance. Doubtless the thing which conveys our thoughts through the air from brain to brain is a finer and subtler form of electricity, and all we need do is find out how to capture it.”
So yes, there are gifted vision-seers. I’m not one, but I believe Mark Twain was one.
As is our custom, we shall leave the last word to Mr. Twain…
“Thirty yoke of oxen could not have pulled the belief out of me that I was one of the favored ones of the earth, and had seen a vision while wide awake.”
