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Hometown Mountain Shoutout: Lights, Camber, Action at Boreal Mountain, CA

Night skiing and boarding at Boreal Mountain Resort.

It’s easy to spot Boreal Mountain Resort as you approach Donner Summit on Interstate 80 in Northern California—especially at night. Just feet from the freeway, and offering some of the best night skiing in Tahoe, this small but mighty mountain is the ideal place to lap lifts (which you’ll do a lot of since Boreal offers just 500 vertical feet […]

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Joe Vignolo | October 31, 2022
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$14 Million Land Conservation Deal Preserves North Lake Tahoe

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The Northern Sierra Partnership has acquired 2,914 acres of wilderness land for $14 million from a collection of private landowners just north of Lake Tahoe. This acquisition has been years in the making, as the group has acquired almost 100,000 acres of land for $78 million throughout Northern California since 2007. Related: Tahoe Fund Meets Campaign Goal For Lily Lake […]

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Taylor Stephan | July 10, 2020
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Truckee Donner Land Trust and Squaw Public Service District to Acquire Poulsen Olympic Meadow Property

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Set in a beautiful meadow with Squaw Creek meandering through and the peaks of Squaw Valley towering above – roughly 30 acres of property owned by one of the valley’s founding families will be preserved by a unique joint effort between the Truckee Donner Land Trust and Squaw Valley Public Service District. A one‐of‐a‐kind parcel in an otherwise developed ski destination, […]

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First Snowstorm of Season in CA Causes Havoc on Roadways | 16 Car Crash Closes I-80, 3 Mountain Passes Close

California saw a healthy amount of snowfall yesterday during the day.  Enough snow, in fact, to close 3 mountain highways and cause a 16 car crash.  About 5″ of snow were recorded on Sonora Pass, CA.  Snow levels dropped down to Lake Tahoe level during the day yesterday. NOAA issued a Winter Weather Advisory that called for 3-8″ of snowfall […]

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WeatherBrains | September 22, 2017
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