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Amelia Calvert, a new pal over at reno.com and tahoe.com, says her websites are teaming up with the local ski areas this winter, and on Jan. 26, they'll be making the scene at Kirkwood...

"Our faithful powderhounds will be live, in-the-chilly-flesh, at Kirkwood handing out the hippest new eco-friendly lip balm and sun block au naturale, compliments of local upstart Sierra Summits

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No, I wasn't fibbing when I posted about the snow flurries hitting the basin earlier this month. But in typical Tahoe fashion, it was just a taste of what is yet to come later this winter, not a statement of what the fall weather will be like right now.

So put the skis, boards and snowshoes back in the hall closet, and lace up your hiking boots- there's still ...

Kirkwood. Kirk wood, if he could. It's a play on words, you know. Granted, not a very good one. On par with that Kim Basinger and Brad Pitt movie from 1992, where she is a cartoon character, Holli Would, who breaks through to our real, non-animated world. Tag line on the movie posters, "Holli Would, if she could."

Anyway, on to the ski report, and another ...

Yesterday, I promised that I'd let you in on some of the cool stuff at Heavenly that was there before the upgrades and additions for the 2007-08 season.

Well, one of the coolest of the cool is the gondola that takes off right from the Heavenly Village, just off the main strip at the state line between Nevada and California.

In December of 2000, the gondola took its maiden voyage as the ...

The 18th annual Kokanee Salmon Festival takes place at South Shore on October 6 and 7. A brilliantly-colored spectacle, if a little morbid, the Kokanee salmon return to the streams where they were hatched, find a mate, spawn, and- here's the morbid part- die. During this season, the adult males develop a humpback and a big hooked jaw- all the better for battling ...