Four Decades of Selfless Service
With over 500 lives saved on the mountain, Tahoe Nordic Search and Rescue has come a long way from a group of concerned parents and friends responding to a tragic loss. Here is the story of the group’s 54-year history.
Lake Tahoe’s Building Boom in the Roaring Twenties
Lake Tahoe was targeted for a national park in the 1910s, but with the wealth of the Roaring Twenties, rampant development moved in and gave rise to three private estates that now function as attractions in of themselves.
Horsing Around Downtown
The most common pack animal that can be seen in downtown Truckee these days is an automobile, but in 1907, before these noisy beasts took over, helpful horses used to “break the plaza,” aka compact the snow to enable people to travel on skis and sleds.
Sixty Years of Service
Would you trudge through feet of snow or work 10-plus-hour days to reach your patients in the dead of winter? Learn how TTMG physicians and nurses coped in the early days of Squaw medicine.
Spooked-Out Storytellers
The restless spirits of Truckee/Tahoe are known to make their presence felt. For folks that have seen something, it isn’t just a bunch of hocus pocus.
A Pioneer on Two Wheels
By BILL OUDEGEEST | Moonshine Ink
Thomas Stevens had never ridden a bicycle when in 1884 he decided it would be a good idea to...
Right Person, Right Time, Right Place
On July 27, 1985, Scott Baumgardner was training a new partner aboard the Sheriff’s Patrol Boat on Lake Tahoe. At about 6 p.m., he and Deputy Dave Harris were dispatched to a possible sailboat in trouble off Cedar Flat. Little did they know', something far more urgent was about to crash into the lake from the sky. Read about the daring rescue of two people from an airplane crash in the '80s.
By Rail, By River, By Lake
Two trains through the mountains and by the river and a steamer on the lake, all with coordinated guided stops: What brought this about in the early 1900s at a time when travel in the mountainous and sometimes dangerous terrain of the Sierra Nevada was far from easy? It was the business dream of a man named Bliss, and he built his life around making it a reality.
50 Years Ago: Let’s Shred Some Volcanoes
By WOLFE SCHAEFER | Moonshine Ink
In May 1969, two local guys, Wolfe Schaefer and Heinz Heubner, took off in a 1953 GMC panel truck...
Welcome to ‘Donnerwood’
Truckee was a vital filming site for early silent films and the first of the “talkies” in the early 1900s, posing as places like Siberia or Alaska. Charlie Chaplin and other major film stars of the era took advantage of the Sierra Nevada snowfall and Truckee amenities, even using locals as extras and filming in remote areas such as Donner Pass.
