Extreme Tahoe: Sports, Fitness, Outdoors

Coming events in Tahoe outdoor sports

COMING EVENTS The 72-mile Tour de Tahoe bike ride is Sept. 12. Circle the lake on a supported ride that begins and ends in South Lake Tahoe. For more information go here. The Tahoe Rim Trail Association is offering a backpacking course just for women. Led by volunteer guides and experienced backpackers Ellen Goldsmith and Sue Henson, this class will introduce backpacking basic, trip planning, how to pack, bear awareness, campsite selection and set up, meal prep and Leave No Trace principles. Beginners are welcome but must be able to hike at elevation carrying a 20 to 30 pound pack, and all participants... (more...)

See the full Extreme Tahoe blog.< Tahoe Rim Trial Assn. offers youth backcountry camps

The Tahoe Rim Trail Association in partnership with Sierra Nevada Journeys is offering three 3-day, 2-night Youth Backcountry Camps for high school students to promote service learning and introduce participants to backpacking. There will also be one 5-day, 4-night backpacking trip focused on outdoor leadership and personal development. Camps are limited to 12 participants, so sign up early to assure a spot. The camps will be held July 11th-13th, July 16th-18th, and July 21st-23rd. The 5 day trip will be from August 2nd – 6th. The TRTA Youth Backcountry Camps engage young adults between the... (more...)

See the full Extreme Tahoe blog.< Alpine welcomes home Errol Kerr

Alpine Meadows plans to welcome home and congratulate Errol Kerr of the Jamaica Ski Team for his 9th place finish at the 2010 Winter Olympic Ski Cross competition with a special event and party March 13. To welcome him home after a phenomenal performance in Vancouver, Alpine has officially deemed Kerr the guest of honor and star judge for the Red Bull Schlittentag competition followed by an after-party in the Last Chair Bar & Grill. German for “sledding day”, Schlittentag is a day of fun, friends and competitive spirit where competitors zoom down a ski hill in a homemade craft.... (more...)

See the full Extreme Tahoe blog.< C.R. Johnson dies at Squaw

Squaw Valley, and all of Tahoe and the skiing world, has lost another great one. Rest in peace, C.R.  Read More →

See the full Extreme Tahoe blog.< Registration open for Tahoe Rim Trail thru hike

From the Tahoe Rim Trail Assn: Make 2010 a year to remember – Join the Tahoe Rim Trail Association for the 10th Annual Thru Hike on the 165-mile Tahoe Rim Trail. Create your own personal story on this rewarding 15 day backpacking trip on one of the most beautiful trails in the nation. Will you be the next participant to add your story to the ones below? * Gary’s experience on the Thru Hike was life changing- he proposed to his now wife half way through the hike. He’s now a TRTA volunteer hike leader, and helps to inspire others to get outdoors and have fun. * Jim thought that this... (more...)

See the full Extreme Tahoe blog.< From Tahoe to the English Channel

Cold water ultra swimmer Catheryne DiPrete talks about swimming in Tahoe in the winter and other aspects of her sport in this short Q and A from the SF Chronicle.  Read More →

See the full Extreme Tahoe blog.< Sugar Bowl to host ski cross event

Sugar Bowl Resort will host two sanctioned U.S. Skiing FIS Nor-Am Cup ski-cross competitions February 1-3, 2010, the resort announced today. Top-level ski-cross competitors from around the world will race the new ski-cross course on the Tunnel 41 trail, located off the Mt. Judah Express quad chair. A relatively new discipline to sanctioned ski competitions, Sugar Bowl ambassador and ski-cross competitor Daron Rahlves explained that “ski-cross is four man heats racing head to head on a motocross inspired layout, debuting for the first time in the Winter Olympics this February. I’ll compete... (more...)

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