Stories

A skier on the Stifel Palisades Tahoe Cup racecourse.

Plant-Based Wax for the Win!

Sometimes it's the little things that can make a difference. Traditional ski wax can contain harmful chemical compounds that leach into the soil and groundwater, ...
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Ski Patroller Jaime Tibbo at the top of KT-22.

Women’s Month Spotlight: Jaime Tibbo, Ski Patrol

Read about Palisades Ski Patroller Jaime Tibbo as part of our Women's Month Spotlight for International Women's Month. Jaime has been on Patrol for six ...
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Sonja Davis, the Assistant Manager of Lift Operations.

Women’s Month Spotlight: Sonja Davis, Assistant Manager of Lift Operations

Read the story of Sonja Davis, our Assistant Manager of Lift Operations at Palisades. This feature is part of our Women's Month spotlight series.
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Photo Gallery: The Great Dig Out at Palisades

What a turbulent but exciting month March has been so far! The snow depth on our upper mountain is upward of 18 feet, and we ...
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Alpine Dispatch Manager Eva Graves

Women’s Month Spotlight: Eva Graves, Alpine Dispatch Manager

Read an interview with Eva Graves, the Alpine Dispatch Manager and Mountain Operations Administrative Assistant as part of our Women's Month Spotlight.
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Women’s Month Spotlight: Sidney Ossenfort, Grooming

Read an interview with Sidney Ossenfort, a Groomer in the Alpine Grooming department at Palisades Tahoe, as part of our International Women’s Month Spotlight.
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Angie Hong standing in front of the Gondola's top terminal

Women’s Month Spotlight: Angie Hong, Lift Maintenance

Read an interview with Angie Hong, a Lift Technician Apprentice in the Lift Maintenance department at Palisades, as part of our International Women's Month Spotlight. ...
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Where Skiers are Made

This is the home mountain of Olympians, world champions, and the stars of some of your favorite ski movies. That doesn’t just happen by coincidence. ...
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The Hall-Pittman family at the 1960 Winter Olympics. Tarea Hall Pittman (far right) was the Western US Regional Director for the NAACP and played a key role in Nevada's fight for civil rights. Courtesy Tarea Hall and William Pittman Papers, MS 46, African American Museum and Library, Oakland, CA

Legends of Tahoe: The 1960 Winter Olympics and the Struggle for Civil Rights

The 1960 Winter Olympics marked an important first: because of the Games, it was the first time Reno was integrated as a city. While the ...
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An aerial view of Olympic Valley circa 1945.

Legends of Tahoe: Connecting Boreal to Lake Tahoe for a Ski Circus

The construction of the Base to Base Gondola has long been a dream. For nearly a century, local resort leaders have imagined a European-style ski ...
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