A popular spot with 20 kilometers of marked cross-country trails is a California State Park that is now home to a spot that once hosted a Winter Olympics first.
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Explore Outdoors: A Winter Olympics first, but not where you may think Share Updated: 7:36 AM PST Mar 5, 2021 Share Updated: 7:36 AM PST Mar 5, 2021
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Show Transcript 122 miles from Sacramento along the creek near Lake Tahoe, is a spot steeped in Olympic history that some may never even knew existed. It kind of got lost. The history that history is part of the 1960 Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, and Dave Antonucci is an author and historian who wrote about what literally disappeared from those games because everything had been removed, all evidence of it had been removed because it was at the time on private property. Today, that property is Ed Z. Berg, Sugar Pine Point State Park, near to home a California. But in 1960 it was the site of an Olympic. First, it was the birthplace of Olympic biathlon. It was the first time that the biathlon where you ski and shoot at targets, uh, was contested for a medal at the Olympics. There was ev