NOAA: 4-6″ of Snow Forecast for Lake Tahoe, CA Sunday & Monday NOAA is forecasting 4-6″ of snow to fall in the Lake Tahoe, CA/NV area on Sunday – Monday. Snow levels are forecast to drop as low as 6,500′ on Sunday. This snowfall forecast map is even showing some snow in the Coast Range… Both the GEM & GFS weather models agree on a decent amount of snowfall in California through […] Weather WeatherBrains | September 24, 2019 0 Comments
2 Lake Tahoe, CA Residents to Swim the 72-Mile Shoreline Picking Up Garbage Two Lake Tahoe residents are taking the lake’s long-time trash problem into their own hands by swimming the 72 miles circumference of Tahoe and picking up garbage on the way. Related: Lake Tahoe Trashed on 4th July | 1,875-Pounds Trash Cleaned Up by Volunteers Yesterday Tahoe Dive Center owner Matt Meunier and Clean Up the Lake founder Colin West plan […] SnowBrains | September 19, 2019 0 Comments
3 Photos of Squaw Valley, CA Looking Raw, Gorgeous, & Snowy Today Lake Tahoe saw it’s 1st real snow of the 2019/20 season yesterday. Today, Squaw Valley woke up to some stunning scenes. We love the above image of the Palisades. We’ve never seen them look so absolutely raw. 2018/19 was a banger season at Squaw and we’ve got our fingers crossed for another great season in 2019/20. Lake Tahoe saw it’s […] Conditions Report SnowBrains | September 17, 2019 0 Comments
Surf Tahoe! Riders at normally snow-iconic Tahoe, California broke-out a very different style of board, catching waves upon the area’s famed alpine lake. Surfers took advantage of what local news sources call, “crazy weather” for a rare, wind-generated Monday session. By The Numbers: Lake Tahoe is the largest alpine lake in North America 2nd largest apline lake on Earth Elevation 6224ft Surface […] Surf SwellBrains | September 17, 2019 2 Comments
Man Died in Lake Tahoe, CA this Weekend While Competing in Triathlon A man died Saturday during a triathlon at Lake Tahoe, reports the TahoeDailyTribune.com. The man was swimming at Sugar Pine Point on the West Shore Saturday when he had to be pulled from the water around 8:23 am, according to an email from Sgt. Anthony Prencipe, public information officer with the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office. Related: Death of a […] SnowBrains | August 28, 2019 0 Comments
Death of a Dog Leads to Testing of South Shore Lake Tahoe, CA for Toxic Blue-Green Algae A dog has died following swimming in Lake Tahoe prompting officials to conduct tests to determine if a toxic form of algae is present on the shoreline of Lake Tahoe, reports the Tahoe Daily Tribune. Related: Annual ‘Tahoe: State of the Lake Report’ | Temperature Rising, Clarity Improving, Aspens Dwindling A person reported last week that their dog had died […] SnowBrains | August 27, 2019 2 Comments
VIDEO: Shane McConkey Squeezes Through Tight Line on Squaw Valley’s Illegal “Tram Face” “One of the wildest things about this legendary line (now called Sluiceway) is that Shane never scouted it. We’d hiked up it in the summer and he obviously had a general idea how it played out, but when I went to scout it the afternoon prior to shooting, he couldn’t join me. He skinned up in the darkness of early […] SnowBrains | August 14, 2019 0 Comments
Annual ‘Tahoe: State of the Lake Report’ | Temperature Rising, Clarity Improving, Aspens Dwindling Lake Tahoe, with its iconic blue waters straddling the borders of Nevada and California, continues to face a litany of threats related to climate change. But a promising new project to remove tiny invasive shrimp could be a big step toward climate-proofing its famed lake clarity. Related: Lake Tahoe is Fullest for Two Decades | Heavy Snowmelt Means it’s […] SnowBrains | August 2, 2019 0 Comments