The new year has already been challenging for many reasons that have been heart-breaking and exasperating, but I have to count my blessings to live in Tahoe. I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else or be anywhere else during these challenging times.
Tahoe is a refuge for many of us – visitors and residents, alike. We come to the mountains to escape what ails our hearts and mind, to replenish the soul, to rediscover our creativity, to breath in the mountain air and to find solace. The Tahoe Sierra is all of these things and more to me and has been since I first saw Big Blue more than 25 years ago.
In this edition – our first digital-only edition – we’ve packed the pages with lots of winter activities, outings and insights to this place we all love.
For winter fun, I recommend snowshoeing, cross-country skiing and sledding at one of our many developed areas or venture into the woods. Try snowshoeing to Skunk Harbor or read about our local groomed and ungroomed ski areas and state parks for lots of winter fun that’s safe, open, and, in some cases, free in our 14th annual Nordic Ski & Snowshoe Guide.
Sean McAlindin takes on public access issues in this edition, as well, looking at the state of back-country access in the Tahoe Sierra in his feature “Back-country Access in 2021: Tahoe Sierra Readies for Year like No Other.”
And he looks at a question many have been asking for years: Why are so many public recreation sites closed for the winter? And, for the ones that are open, why is there no parking? In his feature “Winter Recreation Access Pushed to Limit” many officials say they are grappling with this as winter tourism has been increasing for years and even more so now due to the pandemic. Read the story to see how officials are trying to address this problem, how local and state officials are working to find solutions and what the public can do in the meantime.
Digital-only editions
I mentioned above that this is our first digital-only edition, which marks a large shift from our normal print publication. The last 10 months have brought lots of changes in how we run our local business, and now faced with continuing restrictions (which we know we need to keep everyone safe) and the normal challenges of a winter season in Tahoe, I made the decision to suspend our print publication for the winter.
In its place, we’ll be publishing a monthly digital-only version of the magazine through April. Our print edition will resume in May.
Our free digital edition – the full version of the magazine available for reading online or download – has been a companion piece to our print edition since 2014. This winter, we’ll be publishing only the digital version of the magazine out on Feb. 10, March 10 and April 7.
As well, we’ll still have our content available free at TheTahoeWeekly.com and @TheTahoeWeekly on Facebook and Instagram. You can get updates on new editions and content by following us on social media, subscribing to our newsletter (sign up at TheTahoeWeekly.com) or subscribe to our digital edition at issuu.com/TheTahoeWeekly.
