Tahoetopia

Realtor Juju

Sometimes realtors, as well as contractors and bankers, like to use average prices because it stokes higher prices and many of these folks get paid on a commission (% of sales price) basis. But median price more accurately reflects the market place. For example, the Sacramento Bee reported on October 19 that the median price for houses in Placer County was $494,500 in September.

California Dreaming: New Ski Resort--Maybe

"It's a marvelous area," says Tazuk, principle and guiding spirit of the project. "Dyer Mountain is the most northern mountain in the Sierra Nevada and it can provide a great diversity of runs. Dyer's summit offers superb views of Mount Lassen and Lake Almanor. It can be world-class skiing."

Questioning and Listening to Persuade

Effective questioning is not a manipulative technique to bend others-potential customers or your people--to your way of thinking. Rather, such questioning is (should be) an honest attempt to find out what's on another person's mind. If you find out, you are much more able to shape your thoughts and proposals to fit the actual situation...and move toward agreement.

73 Feet of Snow in Big Winter of 1906-07

More often than not in the Sierra, desiccating droughts are broken by wild winters, when torrential downpours soak the lower elevations and snow falls thick and deep here on top. The resulting snowmelt invigorates parched rivers, replenishes empty reservoirs, and resuscitates the withered landscape. It's a natural cycle as old as the West itself.

Seven Stages on Path to Over Development

The video sequence starts off with a kid splashing in a fancy pool--not a lake or cold stream. Then the camera cuts to a handsome dude in sherbet-colored pants swinging a big club on a rolling golf course. "Click," he hits a Tiger-length drive.

A Cat Chooses Me

The voice continued: "She's fourteen years old, she's fat, and she doesn't like people...well, we're assuming she doesn't like people since she tries to bite everyone. Ummm....so do you want her? By the way, her name is Big Bertha."

Dick Dorworth, Mountain Man

Instead of conquering the top, one of America's most famed skier adventurers wound up in a solo descent off the mountain as he was suffering with cerebral edema.

Mountain Biking--Truckee

Emigrant Trail is probably Truckee's most popular mountain biking trail, and with good reason. It is fun for everyone from beginner to expert, and since it runs through a scattered forest at a low elevation, it is out of the snow sooner in the spring and it stays out of the snow later in the fall, then most trails.

Do You Talk too Much in Your Work?

Why is this so? The reasons are complex, no doubt, but it's fair to say that when a person is talking, he or she is more in control than when he or she is "merely" listening. When a person listens, there is always a chance something undesirable will come out. So, over-talking is often an unconscious reflection of a lack of self-confidence. It can be overcome, however.

Getting Yourself Ready for Winter Sports

I stopped to gaze up at the smooth, lenticular clouds passing over Lake Tahoe and down at my mud spattered legs.

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