Thanks to the hard work of public agencies, nonprofits, individuals, and advocates like the Lake Tahoe Bicycle Coalition, the ability to ditch your car and grab a bike has become easier in the Tahoe/Truckee area.

Stop at the Truckee Bike Park on any given day and it’s not out of the ordinary to find children as young as 2 or 3 perched on a balance bike, doing their best Fred Flintstone and using their little feet to push their way around the track. Here and elsewhere local organizations have ramped up efforts to bring biking into the lives of young ones. Social media: Little Shredders: Local organizations introduce biking into the lives of young ones.

Mountain bikers dream of circumnavigating our Great Blue Lake on a pair of heavily-treaded wheels. Some local groups agree and are helping achieve that dream; other community stakeholders work to keep rubber off dirt and rocks in some Tahoe-adjacent areas.

Ryan Wood’s stories are filled with hot air. Literally. The Truckee resident has many tales to tell, most of them beginning with flying in a hot air balloon.

Roller derby is alive and well in Lake Tahoe

Dave Jack offers expert fitness advice on how to keep both yourself and your baby as healthy as possible throughout pregnancy.

Climate change could make our ski seasons substantially shorter.

Hunting down freshies with the only cat skiing operation in the Tahoe Basin.

While female groomers still only make up a fraction of the grooming crew — at Squaw there are only two women groomers out of 37 — women don’t need a #MeToo movement to break into grooming; only the desire to learn.

Bootfitting was once taboo in the ski industry and is often pushed aside for branding and customer churn. But no ski race has ever been won without it.