Living in the Tahoe Basin, the wilderness begins in many of our backyards. While many people find comfort and ease being in a city surrounded by people, there are a few who find the natural mystery of the wild to feel like home.
In Tahoe, nature can be explored on a daily basis whether it’s an epic backcountry tour or a walk through the trees. For certain people, nature resonates deep in the soul intertwining beauty, history and knowledge.
One Tahoe local who has discovered her connection to the wilderness is Carolyn Highland. Highland is an author and 4th grade teacher at the outdoor school, Tahoe Expedition Academy in Truckee.
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A heavy snowfall coats Tahoe City, Calif., during a heavy winter storm on Jan. 28, 2021. Tahoe City businesses are organizing a proposed tourism business district that will generate funding for big issues, like workforce housing and traffic.Ryan Salm/Special to SFGATEShow MoreShow Less
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A heavy snowfall coats Tahoe City, Calif., during a heavy winter storm on Jan. 28, 2021. Tahoe City businesses are organizing a proposed tourism business district that will generate funding for big issues, like workforce housing and traffic.Ryan Salm/Special to SFGATEShow MoreShow Less
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE
When Mayor Tamara Wallace looks out her office window from her perch within the Lake Tahoe Community Presbyterian Church, she’s afforded a bird’s-eye view of the traffic along Route 50, which has been pretty thick since the pandemic began in March.
And if she’s at her aerie before 2 p.m., there’s no denying the foot traffic going in and out of the Red Hut Breakfast Cafe, which sits adjacent to the church’s parking lot. The owners Wallace’s longtime South Lake Tahoe neighbors have refused to close down their restaurant to indoor dining, despite state and local public health orders, which forbid indoor dining as coronavirus caseloads surge and regional ICU beds fill.
Simple, affordable and socially distanced, snowshoeing gets hot
As biking was to spring, snowshoeing is to winter as exercisers adapt to cold weather. 122 Shares
Snowshoeing is poised to become one of this winter’s most popular outdoor pastimes, as people look for activities that offer plenty of social distance. (Provided by REI Co-op via New York Times)
By Elaine Glusac,
The New York Times
When the pandemic struck in the height of the 2020 ski season, closing the downhill ski mountain in Breckenridge, the Breckenridge Nordic & Snowshoe Adventure Center found families turning to its snow sports, which were, by their natures, socially distanced, pandemic or not.