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Squaw Valley to honor its Olympic heritage

International Olympic Committee to award the games to his fledgling Sierra resort is a legendary marketing tale involving equal parts ego, bravado and pixie dust. The IOC favored Innsbruck, Austria, to host the games, but charismatic Cushing, ...

From JANET FULLWOOD, The San Jose Mercury News,  12 Nov 2009
Related Topics: International Olympic Committee,  Linda Williams,  Jonny Moseley,  IBM

Fun at new heights: Lake Tahoe takes to lifts for summer recreation

grabby and stops the dust," park manager Kyle Crezee says. Free orientation tours are offered at 11 a.m. on days the park is open. Janet Fullwood Hikers walk past a stand of paintbrush in the in Squaw Valley's High Camp area reached by Cable Car LAKE ...

From JANET FULLWOOD, Inside Bay Area,  24 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Darth Vader,  Aramark

Easy living in forbidding Death Valley

The Old Ranger and the 20-mule teams that hauled borax out of the desert are history, but Death Valley National Park reigns as a place of superlatives. The 3,000-square-mile preserve is at its most inviting in winter, when mild temperatures facilitate ...

From JANET FULLWOOD, San Francisco Chronicle,  25 Jan 2009

Off-the-slope

transport tubers up its hill, plus a second tubing carousel for little ones. Both Playlands also offer mini-snowmobiles that kids drive 10 laps around a track for $10. Information: www.skisodasprings.com or (530) 426-3901. The new Tahoe Maritime ...

From JANET FULLWOOD FOR THE MERCURY NEWS, The San Jose Mercury News,  14 Nov 2008
Related Topics: National Hockey League

Tahoe packed with family fun for nonskiers, too

has added a new, 350-foot-long moving carpet to transport tubers up its hill, plus a second tubing carousel for little ones. Both Play lands also offer minisnowmobiles that kids drive 10 laps around a track for $10. Details: www.skisodasprings.com, 530- ...

From JANET FULLWOOD, Contra Costa Times,  13 Nov 2008
Related Topics: National Hockey League

Wake-up call at 10th and J streets

Developers of Sacramento's newest cultural landmark like to refer to the intersection of 10th and J streets as "Main & Main," a figurative reference to the city's busiest north-south and east-west arteries. That distinction may go unnoticed by downtown ...

From JANET FULLWOOD, Sacramento Bee,  12 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Linda Ronstadt,  Timothy Leary

San Francisco's breathtaking 'future-history museum'

WHAT: The new home for a cultural institution founded in 1853 and often described as the "Smithsonian of the West." The Academy encompasses the Steinhart Aquarium, the Kimball Natural History Museum and the Morrison Planetarium. WHERE: 55 Music ...

From JANET FULLWOOD, Sacramento Bee,  28 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Robert Fulton,  Renzo Piano,  Chris Andrews

The Sierra's enduring gold

Photo Caption: RANDY PENCH Sacramento Bee file, 2006 A sun-warmed rock near Sorensen's Resort on Highway 88 makes a good place to perch and read a book. The Hope Valley region of the eastern Sierra has some of the state's best fall color. Highway 395 ...

From JANET FULLWOOD, Sacramento Bee,  28 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Bureau of Land Management

Trips and tours: Plan your Italian vacation

The Learning Exchange is offering several travel classes in coming weeks. A session on planning an Italian vacation is set from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, followed by an afternoon course on planning a trip to Spain. Fee for either is $50, plus a $4 ...

From JANET FULLWOOD, Sacramento Bee,  31 Aug 2008

Sierra: Reno inflates the party baloons

Like it or not, Labor Day marks a change of seasons. True, autumn doesn't officially arrive until Sept. 22. But mentally, it starts when the kids go back to school, the days grow noticeably shorter, and fall colors start slipping into our daily ...

From JANET FULLWOOD, Sacramento Bee,  31 Aug 2008
Related Topics: John Huston

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