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Tahoe’s next step in its tourism evolution? Shifting focus from catering to visitors to supporting home base. Many of the lessons learned to reach this step came out of working through the Covid-19 pandemic. ....
Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe (Photo: Parker Ulry/Unsplash) “Absolutely bananas.” That’s how Truckee-based realtor Kaili Sanchez of Sierra Sotheby’s described real estate activity in 2020. And, she added with an air of disbelief when we spoke in mid-January, it’s still going strong. The bulk of Sanchez’s clients come from the Bay Area and L.A. “They’ll say, ‘I want all the screens out of the house,’” she says. “‘I just want to hear the birds! See the stars!’” But much of the activity is also represented by locals capitalizing on the frenzy and cashing out, she says. They’re heading to Reno, Nevada. To Montana. Back east, to the ice, to get two houses for the price of the Tahoe one. Year-over-year stats from Sierra Sotheby’s are staggering: In November 2019, the agency ....
Share The extrusion of fresh ocean crust at midocean ridges began to slacken 15 million years ago, perhaps cooling the planet. geogphotos/Alamy Stock Photo Slowdown in plate tectonics may have led to Earth’s ice sheets Dec. 22, 2020 , 11:05 AM In seafloor trenches around the world, slabs of old ocean crust fall in slow motion into the mantle, while fresh slabs are built at midocean ridges, where magma emerges at the seams between separating tectonic plates. The engine is relentless but maybe not so steady: Beginning about 15 million years ago, in the late Miocene epoch, ocean crust production declined by one-third over 10 million years to a slow pace that pretty much continues to today, says Colleen Dalton, a geophysicist at Brown University who presented the work this month at a virtual meeting of the American Geophysical Union. “It’s a global phenomenon.” ....
Lake Tahoe shutting down to tourists Friday By Gregory Thomas For more stories like this, check out The Chronicle’s weekly Travel newsletter!Sign up here. Vacation travel to Lake Tahoe will be banned for at least three weeks starting Friday because of a regional rise in the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations. The state’s stay-at-home mechanism was triggered Wednesday for a vast region of 13 counties, from Sacramento east to the Nevada border. Though not unexpected, the news that Christmas travel would be off-limits came as a blow to the state’s premier winter tourism destination, which first went into shutdown with the rest of the state in March. ....