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Mar 13, 2025 | 
moonshineink.com | Tim Hauserman
While many of us spend an inordinate amount of time communicating on social media, we also bemoan its negative impacts. Social media can be a deluge of both misinformation and disinformation, starkly dividing our country. It also has a tendency to bring out a level of meanness in people that is less commonly seen in face-to-face communication.
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Mar 11, 2025 | 
moonshineink.com | Tim Hauserman
David Wise, a two-time Olympic gold medalist who grew up in Reno, remembers waking up before 5 a.m. as a teenager to carpool with friends to Mammoth Mountain, ski all day, and drive back in time for school the next day, all for the chance to train on freestyle terrain. Wise won’t have to do that drive anymore, thanks to new terrain parks with elite-size jumps at Sugar Bowl.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
moonshineink.com | Tim Hauserman
About an hour’s drive north of Truckee sits the birthplace of American ski racing. In the 1860s, bored gold miners got through the winter by careening down steep slopes in what is now Plumas Eureka State Park. They competed for money and bragging rights on giant, 14-foot-long wooden skis. The winners were often those who had the best secret recipe of an old-fashioned wax lathered onto the bottom of their skis.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
sierranevadaally.org | Tim Hauserman
Situated at the edge of the largest mountain valley in California, the Sierra Valley Preserve Nature Center opened to the public this past December. This brand new, eco-friendly structure sits adjacent to the 2,574 acre Sierra Valley Preserve, the only major chunk of land with public access in the Sierra Valley. The Nature Center provides expositions on the natural and human history of the spectacular Sierra Valley, as well as delivers a steady series of public educational programs.
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Dec 30, 2024 | 
thenevadaindependent.com | Tim Hauserman
The sawmill, run in partnership with the business arm of the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California, is taking a market-oriented approach to megafires.
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Dec 13, 2024 | 
sierranevadaally.org | Tim Hauserman
Reducing the risk of wild fire devastation in the Sierra Nevada is a daunting and multi-faceted task. Much of the effort is focused on reducing fuel load in the forest so that fires that do flare up don’t turn into catastrophes like the Caldor Fire of 2021. One sticking point in this effort for the Tahoe region has been the lack of a nearby sawmill.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
moonshineink.com | Tim Hauserman
Writing a book is a creative passion. It requires carving out chunks of time away from work, family, and playing outside. After hundreds of hours of mental gymnastics, there is little chance of great financial success — but writers are still drawn to the challenge. Getting your words in print is an opportunity to show the world what is going on inside your noggin, a true expression of who you are. There are lots of writers with Tahoe connections who have made that giant leap to publication.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
moonshineink.com | Tim Hauserman
Every November we are reminded that the holidays are coming with the emergence of the pop-up Christmas tree lot in Tahoe City, run by Tahoe City’s Scout Troop 266, which has been active since 1960. The troop, which now includes both boys and girls, heads out into the woods to cut down over 300 trees to bring the Christmas spirit and that lovely aroma of firs to homes around the region.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
moonshineink.com | Tim Hauserman
In January 1978, Andreas and Mary Mourelatos ventured to Tahoe from the Bay Area to purchase the James Lakeshore Resort in Tahoe Vista, which was in poor condition and in foreclosure. They fell in love with the stunningly beautiful setting just above one of the sandiest beaches at the lake, and saw the enormous potential of the property, which consisted of three parcels totaling 21 acres, with 3 acres of lake frontage.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
yourtahoeguide.com | Tim Hauserman
Grover Hot Springs State Park is just a 45-minute drive from South Lake Tahoe, but it feels like another world. It lies just a few miles outside of the charming village of Markleeville in Alpine County, California’s least populated county. Grover Hot Springs had been on my back burner as a destination for years and we finally made it there this summer — twice. The state park is fairly small, containing the hot springs facility, a campground and several hiking trails.
