Gregory Thomas

A historic duck hunting club on an undeveloped Bay Area island has hit the market.

A bizarre bit of 1970s Yosemite lore involving drug smugglers, a crashed plane and giant sacks of marijuana is being screened in Northern California.

Hikers using AI chatbots to navigate Mount Shasta have gotten lost and confused. In one instance this week, a group of climbers relying on them to plan their trip had to be rescued.

I wasn’t hunting for a quiet place, but I might have found the quietest place at a small lake tucked in a granite wilderness in the Sierra, travel and outdoors editor Gregory Thomas writes.

A slip would have plunged the climber 2,400 feet to certain death. Rescuers raced the clock to get him to safety.

Three of Tahoe’s premier ski areas have announced their tentative opening dates, stoking enthusiasm for the arrival of an El Niño-charged winter in California’s skiing capital.

In South Lake Tahoe, mountain bikers and e-bikers now have a new trail to ride — and a new way to reach it.

A privately owned mountaintop with panoramic views of the Bay Area, off-limits to the public for decades, will soon be set aside as open space and open to hikers eager to explore a new summit.

The 31-year-old Grand Canyon river guide rowed for nearly a month and a half by herself more than 2,000 miles across the Pacific.

While horseback riding in the hills near Mount Shasta, two cowgirls encountered a spooky spectacle. Then they spent a week unraveling the mystery.