SF News New Report Blames Back-Country Guides For Choosing Highly Avalanche-Prone Route In Tahoe Tragedy A new report by an avalanche education organization describes in detail the events of February 17, and the avalanche conditions that were present as a group of 11 skiers and four guides headed on a dangerous route out of the back country near Donner Summit.
SF News Avalanche Survivors Fill In Key Pieces of the Story of What Happened Before Nine Were Buried Two of the survivors of last week's deadly avalanche near Castle Peak in the Sierra Nevada Mountains have now spoken out about the group's decision to venture out in blizzard conditions.
SF News Remaining Three Victims ID'd In Castle Peak Avalanche as All Nine Bodies Are Recovered From Mountain The three victims who remained unidentified last week in the avalanche tragedy near Lake Tahoe, all back-country skiing guides, have now been identified.
SF News Saturday Links: Two Skiers Die in Separate Incidents at Lake Tahoe’s Heavenly Resort SFUSD is expected to announce preliminary layoffs for 42 employees; a celebration of life for Betty Reid Soskin, who died in December at 104, is set to take place in Oakland March 1; and two skiers died in separate incidents at Heavenly Resort in Lake Tahoe Friday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland to Celebrate Black History Month With Black Joy Parade MAHA proponents are turning against RFK Jr. after Trump ordered a boost in the production of weedkiller glyphosate; authorities are investigating the ski guide company involved in the deadly Lake Tahoe avalanche; and Oakland’s ninth annual Black Joy Parade takes place Sunday.
SF News Six Women Who Loved the Outdoors Identified as Victims In Avalanche Six of the nine victims' names have now been released from Tuesday's avalanche tragedy in Nevada County, and they were a group of women who'd bonded over their love of skiing and the outdoors.
SF News Group of Ski Moms, Including One From SF and One From Marin, Among 9 Avalanche Victims A group of mothers of students at Sugar Bowl Academy, a boarding school for competitive skiers, was part of the three-day back-country skiing expedition that ended in tragedy on Tuesday.
SF News How a Three-Day Back-County Ski Expedition Turned Deadly in the Sierra More details have been released about a group of back-country ski guides and their 11 clients who were hiking through an avalanche-prone area Tuesday morning as we learned that eight have been found dead and one remains missing.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Nine Dead Out of Group of 15 Skiers Caught In Avalanche Nine people are missing and six were rescued from a group of back-country skiers caught in a Tuesday avalanche near Tahoe; Mark Zuckerberg is testifying in that social media trial; and a famed Monterey County winery is shutting down.
SF News Several Back-Country Skiers Missing After Tuesday Morning Avalanche Near Tahoe An unknown number of back-country skiers are missing after an avalanche hit Tuesday morning in the Castle Peak area near Donner Pass, as some parts of the Sierra experience their harshest winter conditions in three years.
SF News Mammoth Ski Patroller Dies Following Friday Avalanche, Second Sierra Avalanche Buries Snowmobiler A snowmobiler riding with a group near Yosemite Sunday was airlifted to a trauma center after the group set off an avalanche, and one of the ski patrollers who was injured while performing avalanche mitigation work at Mammoth Mountain Friday has died.
SF News Man Killed In Tahoe Avalanche Identified as Marin County Resident; Survivors Describe Scene The man who was killed Wednesday morning in an avalanche at Palisades Tahoe has been identified as a Bay Area resident who also had a home in Truckee.
SF News [Update] One Confirmed Dead In Avalanche at Palisades Tahoe There was an avalanche Wednesday morning at Palisades Tahoe that reportedly buried multiple skiers who were among the first down a trail, and a search and rescue operation is underway.
SF News Avalanche Buries Tahoe Apartment Building, Several Areas Evacuated Over Avalanche Risk The first two floors of this three-story apartment building near Palisades Tahoe were completely engulfed by an avalanche Tuesday night, and while everyone inside was rescued, avalanche orders remain in effect in parts of the Lake Tahoe area.
SF News Avalanche at Tahoe's Alpine Meadows Kills One, Seriously Injures Another An avalanche Friday morning has taken the life of one skier at the Alpine Meadows Ski Resort near Lake Tahoe, and a second skier has reportedly suffered serious "lower body" injuries, with several other people possibly injured as well.
SF News Highways 50 and 89 Shut Down Due To Avalanches Near Lake Tahoe The massive amounts of snow in the Sierra have once again shut down two main routes in and out of the Tahoe Basin. And the road closures mean traffic headaches for spring breakers who might be trying to reach the area Monday.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Two Skiers Rescued In Lake Tahoe Avalanche Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Remember that avalanche warning yesterday? Two skiers, who luckily
SF News Heavy Snowfall Means Avalanche Danger Is 'High' In Lake Tahoe A "significant winter storm" has triggered an avalanche warning "for the Sierra Nevada mountains of California and Nevada, from Yuba Pass to Ebbetts Pass, including the Lake Tahoe Basin," the National Weather Service
SF News Body Of Missing Ski Instructor Found Under Snow Six Weeks Later In Tahoe The body of 23-year-old Placer County ski instructor Carson May was found Monday buried under five feet of snow, six weeks after he went missing in the back country of Sugar Bowl ski
SF News Snowboarder Causes Avalanche, Films It, And Now May Face Charges It's been so long since people have seen serious amounts of snow in the Tahoe area they've forgotten that it can be dangerous, apparently. 29-year-old snowboarder Christian Michael Mares rode into an off-limits
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