The Sierra Nevada mountain range boasts some of the best rock climbing, clearest alpine lakes, and most epic ski terrain in the world. But the story of the Sierra Nevada goes far beyond humanity’s ...

We were at mile 135 of a 400-mile drive across Nevada’s high desert to Great Basin National Park, one of the least-visited destinations in the entire national park system. The horizon was a 360 ...

The Big Melt is finally underway in the Sierra Nevada range, and soon there will be few wild places beyond the reach of water sounds: dripping, gurgling and roaring as runoff flows from lofty ...

The mountain range straddling California and Nevada has had mostly warm storms this winter. Finally, a cold one has piled up multiple feet of snow. By Amy Graff Amy Graff is a San Francisco-based ...

American Geophysical Union. "Bighorn sheep face death by avalanche in Sierra Nevada range." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 10 December 2024. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 12 ...

Truckee, California, a town between Reno and Donner Lake, was named the third-snowiest place in the country by The Weather Channel.. The Weather Channel considered towns and cities with a ...

American Geophysical Union. image: Even as snow becomes less consistent in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, ... which were responsible for the Sierra Nevada’s deep snowpack in 2023.